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Obama’s desire to revive ties with Cuba began before he was elected president.

Don't write President Obama off as powerless for the last two years of his term. As his Cuba move showed, he's willing to go it alone.

Putin advocated for diversity in revenue sources while reducing dependency on oil to strengthen Russia's economy.

The binding ruling will apply across EU member states.

Missouri, Texas and Florida accounted for 80 percent of the 35 executions this year.

The not-guilty plea came the same week two other woman accused Uber drivers in Boston of sexual assault.

The news of the latest attack comes a day after a Nigerian military court sentenced 54 soldiers to death after they were convicted of mutiny.

The virus has already killed more than 350 healthcare workers and has infected 18,600 people in West Africa.

A Pakistani court granted the alleged terrorist leader, whose attack left more than 130 children dead, bail for less than $8,000.

The French parliament approved President Francois Hollande’s revised 2015 deficit-cutting budget on Thursday.

Avon's China unit, which pleaded guilty to bribery, gave officials merchandise from luxurious brands to gain business benefits.

China's governing Communist Party has been waging a campaign against corruption, in a bid to increase its legitimacy.

The Fed has held benchmark overnight rates near zero since December 2008.

A video showing an Albuquerque police officer accidentally shooting a man, while investigating a burglary case, has been released by police.

Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev told a Russian paper: "When a U.S. law is passed it is very hard to change it afterwards."

The Australian leader has ordered a transparent government review into the events that led to the siege.

Nigerian soldiers claim they lack the weapons and supplies to tackle the well-armed Boko Haram, who have been fighting an insurgency since 2009.

The men were charged with conspiracy to kill employees of the U.S., and with conspiracy to provide material support to a Colombian rebel group.

In an effort to remove a story it disagreed with, SEA broke into the IBTimes website on Wednesday evening.

Since the beginning of the civil war in 2011, the Syrian Army has shrunk in size by more than half.

The U.S. and Cuba are set to re-establish relations, but the U.S. says returning Guantanamo Bay isn't in the cards.

For 2016 candidates like Bush and Clinton, a position on Cuban relations could matter in swing state Florida.

The lifting of U.S. restrictions on Cuba Wednesday will help tourism but won't unleash a surge of imports and exports between the nations.

They will be the first in their positions in more than 50 years.

Cuban-Americans on both sides of the aisle denounced Obama's move as rewarding the Castros.

“Two titans like Bush and Rubio locking horns in the same state -- it would be a bloodbath,” said one political observer.

For the first time in a half century it will be legal to import the world's best cigars into the world's richest nation.

The administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it will ban the practice of hydraulic fracking in New York State.

Jeb Bush may be cutting down his competition for the 2016 nomination, but he's also opening himself up to attacks.