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The Institutional Revolutionary Party is poised to retake power on Sunday after a decade out of power, led by the charismatic presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. Would a change mean a much different relationship with Mexico's big neighbor to the north?

China, which according to various estimates produces between 90 to 98 percent of the world's rare earth supplies, warned that a decline in its rare earth resources was accelerating.

The revelations would be particularly embarrassing to a Communist leadership seeking to stamp out government corruption.

Both liberals and conservatives can use the high court?s decision to energize the rank-and-file.

The Supreme Court has spoken, the president has spoken, and Congress has spoken. Now it is time for the American people to speak.

On the eve of taking his oath of office, Egyptian President-elect Mohammed Morsi addressed thousands of people in Cairo's Tahrir Square to share his vision for the rebirth of Egypt.?

Bernard Madoff?s brother Peter finally peladed guilty Friday to conspiracy to commit a single count of securities fraud and another of falsifying records.

Since 2001, Pakistani media estimates, at least 800 Hazara have been slaughtered in the country.

In Sudan, the big protest is in progress. Media reports are still scant, but Twitter is chirping with updates.

The Venezuelan Supreme Court has ordered the seizure of $5.7 million in assets of a privately-funded news channel that's the last remaining network critical of president Hugo Chavez

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced this morning he'd raised over $4 million since yesterday morning and is riding the wave with a footage of Hillary Clinton attacking President Obama.

A photo of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that encapsulates the respective reactions of Democrats and Republicans following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld most of the Affordable Care Act, has gone viral.

The United States gave China and Singapore exemptions from new sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and oil industry, which took effect on Thursday.

The talk radio host refers to the Supreme Court as a 'Death Panel' while Palin stands by her comments from 2009.

More than three decades after the death of Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung, Maoist rebels remain active in more than one-third of India?s 600 districts, primarily along the eastern parts of the country.

Stockton, California, officially filed for Chapter 9 protection Thursday after talks with bondholders and labor unions failed, making it the largest-ever U.S. city to file for bankruptcy.

Authorities are refraining from calling it terrorism, but the hijackers -- subdued by passengers -- were aboard a flight in a region of Western China where Muslim Uyghur separatists are active

Mercosur, a four-nation regional trade bloc in South America, could suspend Paraguay's membership following the sudden removal of President Fernando Lugo last week

As expected, the New York City Council voted Thursday evening to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of a measure that would raise the minimum wage of employees of some companies that receive public subsidies to $11.50 an hour, or $10 an hour with benefits.

European leaders established Friday a set of measures to address the euro zone debt crisis, including an agreement to allow some rescue funds to be sent directly to struggling banks instead of adding to the public debt of reeling economies.

Meanwhile, activists said that up to 190 people were killed in the besieged city of Douma on Thursday in one of the bloodiest days of the 16 month old crisis.

The excessive rain has also severed road and rail transport across much of Assam.

The evolving scandal, according to King, illustrated the need to separate the retail from invest banking.

India's BSE Sensex soared more than 430 points or 2.59 percent to a two-month high of 17448.48 Friday on positive global and domestic cues. The 30-share benchmark index opened at 17134.61 and reached a high of 17448.48 before closing down at 17429.98.

Reuters Market Eye - Morgan Stanley has upgraded Indian stocks to equalweight in its latest report after having rated them underweight since the first quarter of 2011.

More than two decades after Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced renowned author Salman Rushdie to death over blasphemy in his book, Satanic Verses, a video game has been developed by a government-sponsored Iranian student body that intends to carry out the fatwa, but in the virtual world.

A committee which was formed to give recommendations on the implementation of the controversial general anti-avoidance rules (GAAR) provisions in India released its draft guidelines Thursday night. The draft guidelines have clarified that the GAAR will not be applied retrospectively.

There are big incentives for states to participate in the Medicaid extension.

A senior Hamas leader has reportedly been assassinated in the Syrian capital Damascus. The Palestinian group holds Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, responsible for the killing.