Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warmly embraced his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko as the two met in Caracas Tuesday to sign a set of cooperative deals.
The two men, who were aged 21 and 19, attempted to sell 20 grams of marijuana for about $400 to a local policeman.
Christofias criticized the EU, the ECB and IMF for behaving like a ?colonial force? with respect to its fiscal demands on Greece.
Latin America and China are closer than ever, and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is touring the continent with a bucketful of money. Everybody wins? Some critics are skeptical
If lawmakers cannot forge an agreement, they will need to fund projects on the nation's roads and bridges with a stopgap measure for the tenth straight time.
?The time has come to do something more drastic toward economic transformation and freedom,? Zuma said.
The Bank of Cyprus bailout raises the island's original ?1.8 billion ($2.2 billion) request -- agreed on Monday to support the country's second largest lender Popular Bank -- to ?2.3 billion ($2.9 billion).
Nigeria is one of the world's top oil producers, but the industry is controlled by the state and corruption at both the local and national level have halted most economic and social development.
The IRA boasted of the assassination, citing it was meant to ?bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country.
Syria's state news agency called the attack the worst massacre against journalism and the freedom of media and blamed armed terrorists for the assault.
Spanish 10-year government bonds have been edging toward an unsustainable 7 percent yield for weeks now, with current yields above 6.8 percent.
Both North and South Korean meteorological officials are reporting that a current drought affecting the Peninsula is the worst it has experienced in over 100 years.
Refugees from Myanmar's embattled state of Kachin are suffering from a lack of humanitarian aid in China's Yunnan Province, according to a Tuesday report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Beverages giant Coca Cola announced Tuesday that it would invest nearly double the amount of money, along with its bottling partners, to $5 billion by 2020. The investment of $5 billion is higher by $3 billion from the earlier announcement made in November 2011 for a five-year period.
South Korea announced it will halt imports of Iranian crude oil as the European Union's ban on insuring oil shipments from Iran comes into effect toward the end of the month.
The National Guestworker Alliance said Tuesday it has uncovered 482 federal citations for safety, health, wage and hour violations, among 12 of the 18 suppliers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) that the organization has been investigating.
For years, the great clock tower located at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London has been famously referred to as Big Ben. But on Tuesday, June 26, Britain's Houses of Parliament released a statement that informed the public of their decision to rename the clock Elizabeth Tower.
There is a sad truth that our elected officials either forget or choose to ignore. As a member of the millennial generation, I remind them of that truth: Your actions are my consequences.
The 54-cent decline in the average price of gasoline over the last 3 months should add approximately $54 billion of incremental income to U.S. consumers.
Three of Africa's most notorious Islamic militant groups are joining forces, some American officials fear.
A federal court has defended the Obama administration's unprecedented push to limit greenhouse gas emissions, laying down a marker in the debate over the limits of environmental regulation.
The president even told his senior aides that he had ?the least power to prevent? the potential collapse of Pakistan.
The Republican chairman of a House panel is accusing President Obama of either obscuring his involvement in the failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking program or improperly invoking executive privilege
Israel began the evacuation of settlers from the West Bank outpost of Ulpana Tuesday, bringing a sense of finality to the Supreme Court's ruling that it was built illegally on private Palestinian land and had to be dismantled.
Russia said that Syria shooting down a Turkish F4 Phantom jet is not a provocation of war.
Intense fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels reportedly broke out in Damascus on Tuesday.
What is so special about the term civil war, and why are governments, media and analysts shying away from openly using that label to describe what's happening in Syria?
Zuma?s ruling party has proposed that the nation?s key mining sector pay more in taxes to finance social spending and also wants to encourage state-owned enterprises to create more jobs.
Other threats outlined in Evans' inaugural Lord Mayor's Annual Defence and Security Lecture in London on Monday night included Al Qaeda infiltration of Arab Spring countries and potential extremists motivated by the possible collapse of the euro zone.
Three federal officers were shot to death in the food-court of Terminal 2 of Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport on Monday.
