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But Russia is apparently getting tired of Assad?s slow pace of reform and the continuing violence against unarmed civilians.

Between January 2008 and April 2011, a total of 60 France Telecom employees killed themselves.

The military, which still controls one quarter of the seats in parliament, will choose a successor for Tin Aung Myint Oo.

The strongly worded piece is the latest episode in Romney's fraught relationship with prominent conservative opinion-shapers who have been skeptical from the start of his ideological squishiness.

Kenyan had signed a deal in June to purchase about 4 million tons of oil from the Iranian National Oil Company.

Palestinian officials have called an international probe into the death of its leader Yasser Arafat, more than eight years after he died of several mysterious health complications, following a report that he could have been poisoned with a radioactive substance known as polonium.

The United States will file an unfair trade complaint with the World Trade Organization against China for its duties on U.S.-made car imports.

India is purchasing oil from Iran using euros to overcome the problems faced in making transactions in the rupee due to its limitations of direct conversion into foreign currencies abroad.

In an unexpected about-face on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the individual mandate fee under Obama's healthcare plan a tax, rather than a penalty.

Mexican election officials said Wednesday they are recounting votes from more than half of the polling booths from Sunday's presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections.

Wednesday's protests against a Russian language bill belie a central conflict: Should Ukraine prioritize Russia or the West in diplomatic alliances going forward?

Not only will hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern portion of the United States be enjoying (or not) their Independence Day holiday without power, many of them will also be sweating it out through the weekend.

France's new Socialist government announced tax rises worth 7.2 billion euros on Wednesday, including heavy one-off levies on wealthy households and big corporations, to plug a revenue shortfall this year caused by flagging economic growth.

Five NATO soldiers were wounded by a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform on Tuesday; they are now undergoing medical treatment.

Four Filipinos, two Salvadoran women and a Palauan born in the tiny island republic in the middle of the Pacific Ocean were among the young men and women who chose to serve a country that had not yet recognized them as citizens -- until this Fourth of July.

On Wednesday, Iran threatened to destroy U.S. military bases immediately following any attack on its own territory.

The body of Yasser Arafat will be exhumed from its West Bank mausoleum to test for polonium poisoning, a move that could spark new tension between Palestine and Israel.

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond testified Wednesday before the British Parliament's Treasury Select Committee denying that anyone in the British government instructed the bank to manipulate the rate that determines the cost of trillions of dollars worth of loans and derivatives traded worldwide every day.

Chinese, Indian and Japanese navies in the Gulf of Aden show a sense of pragmatism and cooperation among their forces, but wariness of China's military is unlikely to lift anytime soon in East Asia.

The European Parliament rejected Wednesday the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, an international treaty that aims to standardize intellectual property and copyright enforcement efforts digitally and physically across signatory countries.

Turkish authorities have located the bodies of the two Turkish pilots whose jet was shot down by Syria on June 22.

Independence Day gives us 24 hours to reconnect with these ?truths self-evident.? But it is these same truths that we increasingly take for granted.

Americans on Wednesday will celebrate the 4th of July, a holiday now commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues and other outdoors events.

Did the U.S. really apologize for the drone strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November to end the seven-month deadlock in negotiations with Pakistan over the NATO supply route to Afghanistan?

The Indian division of the U.S.-based Citibank Tuesday reported a 35 percent rise in its net profit in 2011-2012 fiscal year, driven by robust growth in their corporate and retail banking and mortgage businesses, the bank said in a statement.

Walsh complained that his Democratic opponent, who lost both of her legs while serving in Iraq, spends too much time talking about her military record.

If talk radio had existed in 1776, the Declaration would have been the script.

According to a polling agency, 6.5 percent of the French voting public is gay, and only 4.5 percent of the electorate are practicing Catholics.

Jonathan Krohn made a splash onto the conservative political scene at the early age of just 13-years-old when he delivered a now viral speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2009. Three years and several hundred thousand YouTube views later, Krohn cringes at his pre-pubescent self because, as he says today, he's not much of a conservative anymore.