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Using lessons learned in Afghanistan and Central America, the United States has begun training special anti-drugs police squads in Ghana with hopes of breaking lucrative narcotics supply routes.

Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras likened his country's deep economic slump in the wake of the European debt crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s in the U.S. while meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton in Athens.

The meeting, which will take place at the PM's official residence of number 10 Downing Street, is fraught with potential political faux pas. After all, the sitting PM is not -- according to a Downing Street spokesman who spoke to the Telegraph -- supposed to meet candidates in elections in foreign countries.

A fancy new aircraft upgrade for the Marines is causing a backlash in Japan and exposing years of tensions over U.S. forces in the country.

With the support of President Benigno Aquino III, as well as $30 million from the United States, the Filipino military will add more than 40 aircraft -- including attack helicopters -- and other weapons to its arsenal.

The War on Drugs has been in overwhelming failure -- even the Global Commission on Drug Policy says fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed -- but what are our presidential candidates willing to do about it? Leading up to November's 2012 election, former governor Gary Johnson asks why America doesn't apply what it learned about prohibition of alcohol in the 20s to prohibition of marijuana in the new millennium.

The Bayreuth festival celebrates the works of 19th century composer Richard Wagner, who was a virulent anti-Semite and an idol of Adolf Hitler.

Police physically barred people from visiting the site of the crash, including one Wenzhou survivor and two bloggers who were taken into custody for trying to enter the area.

Two former Anglo Irish Bank senior executives appeared in court in Dublin on Monday over an alleged share-support scheme, an attempt to artificially raise the bank's share price in 2008.

The Venezuelan government announced that security forces on Saturday ended a 20-day prison riot during which at least 22 inmates died.

President Obama's job approval rating continues to inch upwards, although a majority of Americans are still unhappy with his performance.

The first French government minister of Asian descent, Fleur Pellerin, was in no mood to be insulted by interviewer Daniel Schick.

South Sudan has advanced a plan to resume oil exports in cooperation with Sudan, a move that could ease tensions and salvage the countries’ failing economies.

Despite the wave of self-immolation, protest leaders and opposition party officials, who are supporters of the J14 movement, are trying to prevent further Silman copy-cats.

Evita was also widely admired for her great beauty and fashion style.

Romney can invoke anemic monthly job numbers to contend that Obama's domestic policies have failed. But he faces a more difficult task in critiquing how the Obama administration's policies have unfolded outside of America's borders.

Norwegians haven't let the massacre challenge the foundations of their society, which include liberalism, freedom and openness.

Assam, located on the extreme northeastern edge of India, is home to some 300 tribal and ethnic groups.

The Syrian government for the first time acknowledged Monday it has chemical and biological weapons and that it would use them to repel any foreign attack.

Michael Rake, deputy chairman of Barclays, has ruled himself out of contention to be its new chairman, striking a blow to the UK bank as it hunts for new leadership to steer it through its interest rate-rigging scandal.

The Arab League has offered a safe exit for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family if he quickly resigns and leaves the country, in the latest attempt from the international community to end 17 months of bloodshed in Syria.

Essar Oil Monday said that it had made arrangements for loans of about Rs 50 billion to pay its Rs. 61.69-billion sales tax dues to the government of the western Indian state of Gujarat.

The Indian rupee touched 55.84 against the dollar Monday, its lowest mark in a week in morning trade, weighed down by heavy demand for the dollar by petroleum companies.

China will establish a military garrison on a disputed island in the South China Sea, amid escalating tensions that have strained its ties with the neighboring nations and the U.S.

President Obama visited the injured victims of Aurora theatre shooting on Sunday and joining the relatives and friends of the victim's and local residents in their mourning.

Both media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actor Jason Alexander have spoken out against automatic weapons in the wake of the shootings Friday in Aurora, Colo.

Angry locals and police clashed in Anaheim, Calif., Saturday evening after cops shot and killed a suspect, prompting a confrontation involving riot-control gear. Residents plan to protest what they claim is growing and unwarranted aggression by the cops and lackluster reviews of police shootings.

Car bombs in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Shia holy city of Najaf killed a total of 20 people on Sunday and wounded 80.

Victims and relatives visited Norway's Utoya island Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's rampage.