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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda passed its final judgment on Wednesday, but not not everything has been resolved.

The Security Council authorized an African-led force to help Mali’s government recapture the northern part of the country from rebels.

South Carolina’s disgraced ex-Gov. Mark Sanford is re-entering politics with a run for a soon-to-be-vacant House seat, a strategist with knowledge of his plans said Thursday evening.

Former Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has taken a new position on marriage equality, stating the he can accept the “reality” of same-sex marriage if it were a government-issued contract.

Republicans rebel against Speaker John Boehner's tax bill, forcing the last-minute cancellation of the vote.

The pro-Israel lobby has been vociferously pushing back against ex-Sen. Chuck Hagel's widely expected nod for defense secretary.

Korea's state media has misleadingly reported to its people that Time Magazine selected their leader, Kim Jong Un, as "Man of 2012."

Iran desperately needs customers for its huge oil/gas industries; the Saudis will likely try to persuade Pakistan to cancel the deal.

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After hinting he might seek the governorship, Booker says he is exploring a 2014 Senate run for Frank Lautenberg's New Jersey seat.

As US-China economic, political and military relations continue to be tested, Taiwanese well-being could suffer the most.

French President Hollande recognized atrocities committed in Algeria, but he substituted partnership agreements for formal apologies.

An unyielding Boehner puts his fiscal cliff "Plan B" to a House vote as Obama warns Republicans to do what's best for America and cut a deal.

Delhi has the dubious title of India’s “rape capital.”

Park, a conservative, also took an apparent swipe at Japan, Korea’s former colonial ruler.

The president says he will focus on immigration, climate change, energy -- and still the economy.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie set a high bar for his donors to collect $2 million by the end of 2012.

The Central African Republic is struggling to deal with insurgencies in the north as the Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, lays roots in the south.

Bolstering his prime ministerial ambitions in the parliamentary elections to be held in India in 2014, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi won a record third successive term in the state elections Thursday.

As Syrian rebels close in on capital Damascus, concerns are now focused on the rise of al-Qaeda’s influence in Syria.

South Korea has elected Park Geun-hye, the 60-year-old candidate of the Saenuri party, as the country’s first woman president.

Talks to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff” took a turn for the worse Wednesday as President Barack Obama accused Republicans of holding a personal grudge against him while the top GOP negotiator called the president "irrational."

In one of the biggest political motions of the year, senators Joe Lieberman, Dick Durbin, Patty Murray, and Barbara Boxer put forward a proposed bill on Wednesday that would grant Washington, D.C. statehood under the name “New Columbia.”

Four senior officials are out after an official inquiry condemns their offices for leaving the U.S. mission in Libya vulnerable.

76 people have been executed so far this year in the kingdom.

South African President Jacob Zuma was chosen to lead the African National Congress, essentially sewing up the 2014 general election results.

The E.U. is looking to add the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to its terrorist list, says a U.S. State Department official.

As lawmakers in Washington weigh gun control, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder takes action.

A prison break in northern Mexico left at least 22 people dead on Tuesday.