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Trailing in polls, the three-time Italian prime minister sent letters to voters promising a tax refund. The opposition was not pleased.

Damascus is sinking into a state of siege as the rebel offensive intensifies.

Japan hanged three convicts on death row Thursday, the nation’s first since a conservative government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was elected in December.

Zambian authorities have already revoked Chinese officials' licenses who ran the Collum Coal mine, 200 miles south of Lusaka.

Interpol said the effort is just the beginning of a wider crackdown on a worldwide criminal industry it says could be worth up to $100 billion.

One of the nation's lucrative-- and illegal-- businesses? One that scrub companies' Internet trails by using bribery and forgery to delete content.

North Korea defended its most recent nuclear test Thursday, saying countries which gave in to U.S. pressure suffered “tragic consequences.”

Russia and the Arab League proposed Wednesday to facilitate talks between the Syrian government and the opposition to end the civil war.

The Vatican hinted Wednesday that Pope Benedict XVI could issue a letter in the week left in his pontificate that may speed the election of his successor.

The false claim that Chuck Hagel had been endorsed for defense secretary by a nonexistent group called “Friends of Hamas” began as a ridiculous hypothetical, says the reporter who first floated it.

Pete Domenici, the former New Mexico senator and Budget Committee chairman, admitted on Wednesday that he fathered a son with Michelle Laxalt, the daughter of Paul Laxalt, the former senator and governor of Nevada.

An Ohio woman filed a $25,000 lawsuit against her employer, alleging she was fired for voting for President Obama.

The sequester kicked in at midnight, and the cuts will affect everything from defense to education.

The spectacularly dressed Oscar Giannino wanted to be prime minister. But there was a problem: a pretty big lie on his resume.

The fate of the Keystone XL pipeline will demonstrate whether President Obama plans to take a strong stance on mitigating climate change.

The former congressman plead guilty to spending $750,000 worth of campaign funds on personal expenses.

North Korea has released another propaganda video -- this one showing the American president surrounded by flames.

The Beatles are so popular and well-known in India that they are not even identified on the poster.

A new pro-Obama group, Organizing for Action, will not have to disclose its donors.

The Respect for Marriage Coalition is launching a campaign in support of same-sex marriage featuring the opinions of Barack Obama, Laura Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell.

The project will be undertaken by private companies and eventually serve 400,000 commuters daily.

After two decades on death row, Chuck E. Cheese killer Nathan Dunlap could face execution in Colorado for the murders of four victims.

Trade Unions in India began a two-day nationwide strike Wednesday in protest against government’s economic reforms, which they say will lead to price rise, privatization and loss of labor.

No construction can proceed within 100 meters or 330 feet of a historical monument.

An illegal espionage scandal is heating up in Spain, where political corruption controversies were already in full swing.

David Cameron became the first serving British prime minister to visit the scene of a 1919 massacre in India, one of the bloodiest events in Britain’s colonial past.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister announced his government's resignation from office Wednesday following protests against surging electricity prices.

Despite mounting pressure on India to facilitate the arrest of former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed, who has taken refuge at the Indian High Commission in Male, the capital, the Indian government is unlikely to ask the president to leave, Indian media reported.

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigned Tuesday after failing to form a government amid conflict between his Islamist allies and their secular opponents.