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Germany's Federal Constitutional Court said Monday it will decide on an injunction barring the implementation of the European Stability Mechanism on Sept. 12.

China weighed in on Monday with a heavy dose of sarcasm regarding the recent controversy over U.S. Olympics team blazers, suggesting that perhaps members of congress should be banned from wearing anything or using any product that has been manufactured abroad.

Using equipment supplied by Chinese electronics giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE corporation, the People's Liberation Army and the government have back door access to a vast majority of the world's electronic information, including sensitive military and intelligence data, Michael Maloof claims.

President Obama's weekend statement on India , raising concerns over the invest climate in the country, has evoked sharp criticisms making it further hard for the Indian Prime Minister to go ahead with reforms.

North Korea's army chief and a principal advisor to the North Korean leadership, Ri Yong-ho, has been removed from all official posts because of illness, Pyongyang's state media said Monday.

India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose slower than expected rate of 7.25 percent on a year-on- year basis, contrary to the analysts' expectations, triggering hopes for rate cuts from the Reserve Bank of India.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel late Sunday for high-level talks with Israeli officials focusing on the course of political action in Egypt, Iran's alleged clandestine nuclear program and the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pointed out that Mitt Romney could be in big trouble if he is wrong about when he left Bain Capital.

Could North Korea's days as a so-called hermit kingdom be drawing to a close? One sign could be the new status of Ri Yong Ho, the country's top military leader (besides Kim Jong Un, of course), who was axed, bounced, canned, discharged, just plain fired on Sunday.

If Ron Paul had managed to secure a plurality of Nebraska's delegates, the candidate would have been guaranteed acceptance at the Republican National Convention next month. Unfortunately for Paul, Mitt Romney received the most delegates. Paul won only 2 of the 35 available.

The Iraqi government warned Turkey Sunday that an oil and natural gas trade deal with the autonomously-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq could damage economic ties between the two countries.

A bill requiring the Iranian government to design and build nuclear-powered commercial ships was approved by a parliamentary committee Sunday. The measure stipulates the government must provide nuclear fuel for the ships, which would require the Islamic Republic to continue its uranium-enrichment activities.

For months, the Republican Party's base has referred to President Barack Obama as the apologizer-in-chief. Now, the tables have turned as Mitt Romney's campaign has asked for an apology after Obama attacked the GOP candidate's account of his time at the private-equity firm Bain Capital.

Egypt's top armed-forces official, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, said on Sunday that the country's military will not allow a certain group to dominate national politics, which some suggested is a veiled reference to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Former Syrian ambassador Nawaf al-Fares is calling for military intervention as fighting in Damascus escalates.

The self-immolation of an Israeli man at a protest in Tel-Aviv on Saturday night sent immediate shockwaves across the country.

An Afghan investigation into the suicide bombing attack that killed 23 people Saturday, including three security force officials, during a wedding ceremony indicates the involvement of Taliban-affiliated terrorists, the country's interior minister has said.

Chinese navy ships were able to free a stranded vessel in disputed waters near the Philippines Sunday, avoiding a potential standoff between the two countries, which have both made conflicting territorial claims in the South China Sea.

A photo from a New Jersey gay couple's engagement party has landed an anti-gay union organization in hot water, after it used the photo without permission in a political attack ad against a pro-civil union Republican in Colorado.

Rahm Emanuel and Karl Rove somehow agree on what the Romney campaign needs to do. Meanwhile, chief Romney campaign strategist Ed Gillespie ignores both of them.

Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi rejected the United Nations claims that the regime attacked the village of Tremseh with heavy weapons and aircraft, calling the accusations baseless.

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?

Saudi Arabia Saturday slammed the comments by Russia's human rights envoy, who had expressed great concern about the situation in the Gulf Kingdom, and condemned an unjustified interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs, state media Saudi Press Agency reported.

A Chinese warship, which ran aground in disputed waters close to the Philippine coast while on a security patrol, extricated itself Sunday and was heading home, averting fears of another maritime standoff between Beijing and Manila in the South China Sea.

Beleaguered security boss Nick Buckles has come under intense scrutiny after it emerged earlier this week that G4S had failed to recruit enough guards, leaving the UK Government to make up the shortfall with soldiers -- many of whom are thought to be on Summer leave -- and extra police units.

The settlement, which lawyers are calling the largest antitrust settlement in U.S. history, would resolve dozens of lawsuits filed by retailers in 2005 that accused the card companies of fixing fees for processing credit and debit card payments and prohibiting stores from steering their customers to cheaper forms of payment.

China's aging and diminishing population is not a surprise, but experts lament that little is being done to prepare society for its effects.

Recent reports that indicate Mitt Romney may have misrepresented his tenure at Bain Capital could be a fatal blow to his campaign.

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who recently took over the charge of the Finance Ministry, has set up an expert committee to review and finalize the controversial General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), which the foreign investors say are not investor-friendly.