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Greece, a country that accounts for less than 2 percent of the union's GDP, continues to wreak havoc among EU leaders as they plead and threaten the Mediterranean basket case to abide by a harsh medicine of tax rises, welfare cuts and liberalization.

Is Ron Paul 2012 trying to upstage presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa?

The Philippines say China has now deployed a large fishing and coast guard fleet to their disputed shoal in the South China Sea, but China says the development is in line with precedents.

Mitt Romney continues to trail far behind President Obama among Latino voters, imperiling his prospects in a handful of swing states.

Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, rose $1.03 to close at $33.03 on Thursday. A week ago, they were priced at $38 for the IPO.

The Congressional Budget Office said earlier this year in a report that the unemployment rate is already on its way down and will gradually decline to around 7 percent by the end of 2015, before dropping to near 5.5 percent by the end of 2017.

Iran rejected a proposal to curb uranium enrichment during the second day of nuclear talks with Western powers in Baghdad Thursday.

The State Department pulled a switcheroo on al-Qaeda by hacking into the terrorist group's Yemeni websites and replacing anti-American ads with versions showing the atrocities the criminal terrorist group is committing in that country. But will it work as terror-fighting tool?

Alleged Beltran Leyva drug cartel boss Sergio Villarreal was extradited from Mexico to the United States on Thursday, where he faces federal cocaine trafficking and money laundering charges.

Pressing his party's advantage in anticipation of a year-end budget battle, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Democrats in the Senate would preserve an impending $55 billion reduction in military spending if Republicans refuse to budge on new revenue.

Drone attacks have become a contentious issue in Pakistan since local officials claim these attacks frequently kill innocent civilians.

Even as a possible Greece exit from the euro zone is creating ripples of fear in the global economy, it seems that the Asian countries, especially India, is better placed to face the euro zone breakup storm than other regions.

Muslim Brotherhood members illegally, but smartly, appeared outside polling stations during Egypt's presidential vote on Thursday.

Speaking at a summit in Brussels, the heads of Germany and several EU institutions all urged the debt-stricken country to stick to the deeply unpopular tax hikes, labor reforms and welfare cuts that have divided Greece and pushed it to the brink of exiting the currency union.

In 2010, the Indian government permitted state-owned oil companies to establish the price of petrol.

The talks between world powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program came to a standstill Thursday as it accused the P5+1 group (five permanent members of the UN and Germany) of creating a difficult atmosphere hindering talks.

On Tuesday, Cuba?s official Communist Party newspaper Granma finally gave an official estimate of the number of people currently incarcerated in the nation?s jails.

A scathing new report details the way the United States is failing to attract and retain the immigrant workers -- skilled and unskilled -- who are crucial to thriving in a global economy.

With few presidential candidates on their side, who will Egypt's eight million Coptic Christians vote for?

China's manufacturing activity fell in May compared to April and continued to contract for the seventh straight month, according to the preliminary HSBC Flash Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) released Thursday.

As European leaders struggled to hold the euro zone together at a nighttime summit in Brussels, a widening gap emerged between Germany and France, which are now under new management.

The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.

The Philippines is getting ships and assistance from other countries as it faces off against China, but it's still a far cry from matching Beijing's military capabilities

The American Petroleum Institute has again called on Washington to increase domestic production of oil on both federal and public lands, to help consumers by bringing gasoline prices down even further.

For centuries, the Roma people have been marginalized and misunderstood by their European neighbors. A new report by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) sheds light on this age-old human rights issue.

Margaret Whitman, the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), the No. 1 computer maker, decided to swing her ax Wednesday as the company reported dreadful second-quarter results.

Obama told the graduating class of 2012 that a different world includes less deployments, stronger alliances and a greater role in global affairs where the United States of America is more respected and safer than they ever were before -- implying a stark contrast between the attitudes of George W. Bush's administration.

The accident happened in an area formerly operated by diamond giants De Beers.

The former Secretary of State and four-star general seemed taken aback by a remark from Mitt Romney about Russia being the top geopolitical threat to the U.S.