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President Barack Obama is redoubling his efforts to curry favor with the financial industry, a bastion of support for his 2008 campaign whose members have criticized the president's rhetoric and support for increased regulation.

The United States Navy reportedly halted and turned back a North Korean vessel headed for Myanmar (the former Burma) a few weeks ago off the coast of China.

Hardly a few days after Syrian civilians started fleeing the nation to find a safe place in Turkey border, Syrian helicopter gunships fired machineguns to disperse pro-democracy protests, witnesses said, in the first reported use of air power to suppress unrest in Syria's increasingly bloody three-month-old uprising.

In an effort to compensate distraught families, the Canadian government has paid out over $1 million to Afghan civilians. Will the US follow suit?

Israeli police entered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Friday communal prayers-known in Arabic as Jumma -- to disperse a crowd of young Palestinian demonstrators.

Rep. Anthony Weiner is trying to get back to work and said he won't resign.

A staffer for Hilary Clinton and the White House both flatly rejected that the Secretary of State is seeking the presidency of the World Bank.

Hillary Clinton' aides have painstakingly refuted a media report that said she was eying the top job at the World Bank. If not running the World Bank, what will Hillary Clinton do after she steps down as Secretary of State? Would she be Obama's Vice-President? Or Defense Secretary? Or will she be gathering herself for yet another White House bid in 2016? Or indeed, a race as early as 2012?

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s White House campaign lay in shambles on Thursday as more than a dozen top officials and advisers deserted him en masse.

Hillary Clinton has denied reports that she is planning to quit her job next year to become president of the World Bank, a State Department spokesman said.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seeking to become president of the World Bank, according to a report.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's top aides have resigned from his presidential campaign, according to reports.

The President wanted to be sure that he'd gotten his man before making the news of Osama bin Laden's death public.

Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.

The United Nations and the White House have condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank yesterday.

Michelle Obama's gown upstaged the visiting Merkel's.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be honored on Tuesday at the White House with America's highest civilian award.

White House chief economist Austan Goolsbee is stepping down from his post and returning to teaching later this year, he said Monday; a setback for President Barack Obama as he tries to life the economy, Reuters reported.

Austan Goolsbee, the White House chief economist said on Monday that he would resign from his post and go back to teaching later this year.

British citizens in Yemen must leave the country on commercial fights as soon as possible to avoid being stuck up amid escalating violence in the Gulf state, Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned, a report in The Telegraph stated on Saturday.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has set a late summer timetable for his decision on whether he'll try again for the White House.