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He's practically the devil incarnate to the Republican Party, but no president since President Franklin D. Roosevelt has had to address as many serious economic, financial and foreign policy problems as President Barack Obama. Further, Obama's relative success addressing these problems, and the Republican Party's callousness, will lead to Obama's re-election in November.

Syrian warplanes and ground forces bombarded the country's largest city Aleppo on Saturday as government troops struggle to clear the city of lightly-armed rebel forces nearly five weeks after they stormed their way into it, activists said.

Cupertino giant Apple seems to have left an app developer lost as it has continuously rejected an application from its App Store.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon communicated to Iranian leaders his strong disapproval of Iran's rights record and of its stand on key issues causing regional and global tensions, within hours of his arrival in Tehran to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit Wednesday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hitting the road again, this time to the South Pacific and Asia. What is she going to do in the remote Cook islands, where none of her predecessors ever stopped?

In a speech that strongly criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy record without ever mentioning his name, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice addressing the Republican National Convention Wednesday said, U.S. "cannot be reluctant to lead."

A surge in orders for weapons, most of which from developing nations, has turned into a boon for U.S. companies -- and they have the Saudis to thank more than anybody else.

Given the magnitude of the Mumbai attacks, many in India would like to see Qassab executed.

The last time the nations participating in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit came under fire due to the host country's obvious anti-American stance was in 1979 when Cuba hosted the event. Iran, which is hosting the summit this year, has made sure that the summit, that usually doesn't generate substantial interest, is back in the limelight.

Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize-winning archbishop who was renowned for his opposition to the Apartheid regime, refused to attend a summit with the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, because of Blair's decision to support the Iraq War.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' latest report reveals that speaking truth to power, or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, still costs hundreds of journalists their lives.

Norwegian news portal VG Nett reported Muslim extremist terrorist group Ansar al-Sunna has threatened the Norwegian government with an attack similar to 9-11.

Lubbock County Judge Tom Head became the talk of the Internet on Thursday, warning of a civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected. But he isn't the only Texas official to have made an outrageous statement. President George W. Bush and Rick Perry are loaded with some of their own.

What could Israel use in a strike against Iran? How would Iran defend itself, and what could it do afterwards?

Iran announced an ungraded version of a short-range ballistic missile system, the Fatah-110 or Conqueror at a ceremony Tuesday presided over by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

A top Syrian said Tuesday the government is prepared to discuss the exit of President Bashar al-Assad, but his resignation cannot be a precondition for talks.

Controversial film directors Michael Moore and Oliver Stone joined forces to pen an op-ed Monday in The New York Times in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's effort to seek political asylum in Ecuador.

Only one percent of the U.S. population serves in the military today.

In a massive wave of coordinated bombings and shootings, more than 70 people were dead and several more injured across Iraq on Thursday.

The White House is "dusting off old plans" for a potential release of oil reserves to dampen rising gasoline prices and prevent high energy costs from undermining the success of Iran sanctions, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

The United States and its allies are discussing a worst-case scenario that could require tens of thousands of ground troops to go into Syria to secure chemical and biological weapons sites following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government, according to U.S. and diplomatic officials.