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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan delivered his much-anticipated speech Wednesday in Tampa, but slipped in some inaccuracies when blaming the Obama administration.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, said the two countries need to settle their disputes in a more “mature” way.

A comparison of past RNC platforms truly demonstrates how far the party has swung to the right.

Hurricane Isaac's effect on gasoline prices is minimal, but national inventory is below average. And pre-storm worries caused prices to rise anyway.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced that his government has entered into "exploratory talks" with the Farc rebels in hopes of securing peace talks and ending nearly five decades of conflict.

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?

The state-controlled Air Koryo has a fleet of about thirty, mostly older Russian-made aircraft, and flies to 14 foreign airports in six countries -- including, of all places, Kuwait.

Female agricultural workers do not produce as much as their male counterparts in Africa, but fixing that problem could have a major impact in food shortages across the continent.

In a first of its kind, a Sikh American delivered the invocation at the Republican National Convention (RNC) Wednesday night, CNN reported.

On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama did something that helped him reach and communicate with millions of people directly. The President spent around half-an-hour on the popular link-sharing website Reddit, answering questions from the general public and became the first ever sitting president to participate in a forum, commonly referred to as an AMA or "ask me anything."

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."

Rep. Paul Ryan closed the second night of the 2012 Republican National Convention proudly accepting the vice presidential nomination as a representative of his generation, promising to deliver the America they inherited to their own children.

John McCain's convention speech, which blasted Obama's foreign policy, reeked of American exceptionalism and broadly encouraged the United States to make itself the world's policeman.

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky delivered a fiery speech Wednesday night aimed directly at the policies of President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress.

Rand Paul relentlessly pounded his disingenuous "You Did Build That" catchphrase during his Ayn Randian speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday night.

Three foreign soldiers were shot dead Wednesday by a gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform in southern Afghanistan.

The last "Personhood Amendment" in the nation failed to make Colorado's November ballot, falling short of the required petition signatures by some 4,000. Backers of the legislation have promised to challenge the final count in court.

President Barack Obama took part in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday, which answered users' questions and caused a server error.

What do conspiracy theorists and free market ideologues have in common? They both deny climate change, according to a recent psychological study conducted b y the University of Western Australia.

It's been 2,000 days since former FBI agent Robert Levinson went missing, and the U.S. government is no closer to finding the private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007.

A CNN camerawoman was pelted with nuts at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday as she was covering the event. The attackers yelled "This is how we feed animals," as they assaulted the African-American camerawoman. Both attackers were quickly escorted out of the Tampa, Florida convention.

North Korean and Japanese officials meet for the first time in four years, but solutions to core issues blocking normal diplomatic relations remain far off.

Prostitution is rising to dangerous levels in Madagascar, and this has become one of the most controversial signifiers of the country's political and economic breakdown over the last three years.

The highest court in the Ukraine on Wednesday struck down former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's appeal on her seven-year prison sentence.

On the last day of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, shortly before GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney takes the stage to accept the nomination, a "to be announced" speaker will be giving some remarks.

10,200 Syrians crossed into northern Jordan between Aug. 21 and Aug. 27, more than double the 4,500 figure from just the week before.

A federal judge is poised to nullify restrictions on third-party voter registration in Florida, saying guidelines imposed by a new law are unnecessarily strict.

The Egyptian mliitary is increasing its presence in the Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to root out the mysterious jihadist group suspected of carrying out the August 5th attacks near the Israeli border. Meanwhile, Israel nervously waits for Egypt to once again demilitarize the area.