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After weeks of uncertainty, a Greek government has emerged following talks between Greece's center-right New Democracy party, which won Sunday's parliamentary elections, and the smaller leftist parties that lost seats.

The announcement has received a warm welcome from international leaders, with many praising European efforts to get to the root cause of the debt crisis.

France's BFM-TV said the man had asked to speak to the same elite police unit that shot Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah, who died in a hail of bullets just 100 yards from the scene of today's siege.

The nation's largest public-sector employee union this week selects its first new leader in a generation, and its more than 3,500 delegates, representing about 1.4 million members, must decide which of two candidates is most likely to halt declining membership and shrinking benefits: the one focused on national politics or the one focused on localized activism?

Fitch Ratings Wednesday revised its outlook on 11 India-based financial institutions to negative from stable while affirming the rating. Fitch revised the outlook on the Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited's (IRFC) Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to negative from stable and affirmed the ratings at 'BBB-'.

Clashes between Turkish troops and Kurdish militants have intensified after eight soldiers and 10 militants were killed near Turkey's border with Iraq in the worst fighting this year Tuesday.

Romney said Florida's Marco Rubio is being vetted as a candidate for vice president.

However, there is some confusion as to whether he has died or is just near death.

Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for three decades until overthrown by a revolution in the Arab Spring last year, was declared clinically dead by his doctors on Tuesday, the state news agency MENA said in a report confirmed by a hospital source.

U.S. President Barack Obama met with world leaders at the G-20 summit in Mexico, which has largely been focused on reinvigorating a stagnant global economy threatened by the EU's persistent debt crisis.

Was Mitt Romney out of touch when his Wawa moment lit up the Internet yesterday, or was he the victim of selective editing?

UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner reportedly crossed paths at the G-20 summit in Mexico, leading to a confrontation over the Falkland Islands dispute.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa will meet Tuesday, a day before Congressional Republicans are expected to vote on holding Holder in contempt of Congress, without the presence of the House GOP leadership.

Brazil, India, China and the other countries that paid into the latest European bailout fund aren't doing it for charity. Here's what they stand to gain from saving their former colonial masters.

While Beijing officials dismissed the Dalai Lama?s claims as an absurd hoax, Indian officials took the threat seriously.

President Obama's move to prevent thousands of young immigrants from being deported appears to have upended the push by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for legislation that would do the same.

If contributions follow recent trends, donations to state campaigns could surpass $2 billion this year.

Athens needs to identify another ?11.7 billion in spending cuts by 2014.

China's attempt to manage inflation in the real estate market is putting pressure on local governments and pushing homebuyers overseas.

For the third time in a mere two weeks, the motorcade of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been involved in a fatal accident. Who is to blame?

On the second and final day of negotiations in Moscow, diplomats said there was still no agreement between six world powers -- U.S., Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain -- and Iran over Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program.

The State Department on Tuesday warned Iranian exile group Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, to comply with its relocation from Iraq's Camp Ashraf to Camp Hurriya if it hopes to be removed from the United States' list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

A Republican Congressman has authored a bill that would halt President Obama's push to shield thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation.

?We agreed on the need for a cessation of the violence,? Obama told reporters.

Asians have replaced Hispanics as the largest demographic group emigrating to the United States, reversing a longtime trend.

First Lady Michelle Obama spent her weekend disparaging the fat paycheck, the fancy office, the impressive lines on our resumés.

She will address the House of Parliament and meet with members of the royal family.

German economic sentiment has deteriorated in June, according to the ZEW economic indicator which fell 27.7 points to minus 16.9, its strongest decline since October 1998.

The statement, which is expected to be released later today, will undermine the efforts of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has become increasingly isolated among her peers over her insistence on an austerity-led European recovery program.