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The Irish government will spend more than ?2.25 billion ($2.76 billion) on new infrastructure projects and to restart existing road, school and health care construction projects to create as many as 13,000 jobs without hiking debt, government officials said on Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch has little hope that its report will change Chavez's policies. The last time HRW issued a damning report on the country, the government allegedly detailed and then expelled group representatives by force.

As the national debate regarding tax fairness continues to rage, a new poll indicates Americans are increasingly pessimistic about their chances for upward mobility.

Forbes Magazine estimates The Red Devils are now worth $2.23 billion, 19 percent more than second place Spanish side Real Madrid, which is worth $1.88 billion.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Mohamed El-Ehrian, the chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., or PIMCO, was being considered for the role of Egypt's Prime Minister. He doesn't want the job, but he does have the qualities that Egypt lacks.

Greece?s jobless rate is about double the average for the EU, while the unemployment rate among youths under 25 is an astounding 51.5 percent --- having doubled over the past three years.

The head of the world's most powerful central bank said it stands ready to offer additional monetary support to a U.S. economy that has slowed significantly in recent months, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Ordinary Iranians are facing long food queues, spiraling inflation and the debilitating effects of Western sanctions on the country?s key oil sector.

Because of Syria's prohibitions on media, details of what is actually happening on the ground vary, but by all accounts Tuesday's fighting was the heaviest to hit the capital since the start of the 17-month-long uprising.

Khartoum is willing to negotiate with South Sudan in order to further the talks in Addis Ababa. However, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Karti added that oil revenue-sharing negotiations will only start once rebel activity in the South Kordofan and Blue Nile states stops.

The Senate probe, which also lays heavy criticism on HSBC's prime U.S. regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), goes so far as to suggest that lawmakers should consider revoking the bank's charter to operate in the U.S.

The Socialist French President has fallen out of favor with the well-to-do crowd. They're fleeing the country to escape a new tax system that threatens to dig deep into their assets.

High nominal and real interest rates can be found in the Latin American short-term fixed income markets

Closely following earlier reports that Syria had started moving some parts of its huge stockpile of chemical weapons out of storage, the most senior Syrian official to defect to the opposition has said that the Syrian regime will not hesitate to use chemical weapons in a last-ditch effort at survival.

The South China Sea has become Asia's most dangerous flashpoint of conflict. The settlement of the South China Sea dispute will involve compromise and an appreciation of the relative power of the countries involved, says Jeffery Atik, law faculty member at the Loyola law School, Los Angeles.

North Korea appointed Hyon Yong-chol as the vice marshal of the Korean People's Army a day after former army chief and Vice-Marshal Ri Yong-ho was removed from all official posts due to unspecified illness.

An anti-Obama YouTube video uploaded to Mitt Romney's official campaign website on Monday was taken down within a number of hours for allegedly violating a copyright.

Mitt Romney's campaign needs the backing of Ron Paul's fervent supporters if he wants to have a chance of beating President Barack Obama, prominent conservative thinker Max Pappas told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show.

Laszlo Csatary,who is responsible for the deportation of almost 16,000 Jews during WWII, has been located in Budapest, Hungary although officials are concerned he won't be prosecuted in the notoriously anti-Semitic country.

At least 75,000 protesters took to the streets of Tokyo to protest plans to restart nuclear energy. By Western standards they are exceedingly mild-mannered, but they question they raise is very serious - the word's third-largest economy may depend on it, in fact

JPMorgan receives another blow even as it flounders in the midst of a FERC power market manipulation probe and talks with U.S. regulators for its alleged involvement in rigging key benchmark interest rates.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged a commitment to work with Israel in order to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Taking inspiration from global regulatory investigations into the interest rate manipulation, the U.S. is now building strong evidence of criminal wrongdoings against big banks and individuals ensnared in the heart of the scam.

The penguins, who appeared to be well-fed and uninjured, were migrating northward in search of warmer waters.

For the first time since the John F. Kennedy, cargo ships will make regular trips between Cuba and Miami.

More than a year after he resigned in disgrace from Congress, scandal-scarred Anthony Weiner is still having difficulty finding a job, spurring him to consider running for mayor of New York City - an office in which he enjoyed frontrunner status before he tweeted photos of his underwear-clad penis to a college student and lied about it.

Considering her South African roots and the many serious challenges facing the African Union today, Dlamini-Zuma will be under intense scrutiny in the coming weeks.

It may be a sailing piece of archaeology, but China's new treasure ship will be full of symbolic meaning for a country looking for maritime prestige.

Taliban militants have threatened aid workers trying to administer the polio vaccine in Pakistan, putting the lives of 250,000 children in the remote regions of South and North Waziristan at immediate risk.