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A Human Rights Watch report released on Monday claims NATO failed to investigation the deaths of a number of noncombatants killed in airstrikes during last year's Libyan revolution.

With Democrats defending nearly twice as many Senate seats as Republicans in 2012, the GOP has an excellent chance of taking the upper chamber and holding majorities in both houses of Congress.

China sent military observers to Syria as part of the U.N. mission there supervising a crumbling ceasefire. Meanwhile, bombings last week in Damascus and attacks against a U.N. convoy in the south call into question the safety of peacekeepers in the country.

Facing a dropoff in cash in recent months, Chesapeake Energy, the second-largest producer of natural gas in the United States, announced last week it got a $3 billion loan from Goldman Sachs, bringing the company's debt to a new record.

A total of 164 people arrived in South Sudan's capital city, and some 15,000 more will be moved from the Kosti refugee camp in the White Nile State to Khartoum, where they will board southbound planes by May 20.

A clear majority of Americans support some form of legally recognized same-sex unions, according to a new CBS/New York Times poll.

Like last week's controversial Time magazine breastfeeding cover, Newsweek's issue this week is sure to attract some attention.

President Barack Obama will be delivering a commencement speech at Barnard College at 1:10 pm. ET on Monday.

Nine people were killed and several more wounded on Monday morning when a bomb exploded at a busy marketplace in northern Afghanistan.

The fighting, which first erupted on Saturday, is the worst violence in Lebanon since the uprising against Assad began over 14 months ago.

Investigators in Mexico believe that the 49 headless bodies found on the side of a highway on Sunday morning may have been the latest victims of a war between rival drug gangs Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.

Euro zone industrial production fell by 0.3 percent from February to March, despite gains made the previous month, and year over year production plummeted 2.2 percent, a report from the European Commission's Eurostat statistics bureau said Monday.

Deutsche Bank is as German as lederhosen, sauerkraut, beer and the Autobahn.

No unity government can emerge, Kouvelis told Greek television.

Steve Rattner, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, called an anti-Mitt Romney ad released by the Obama campaign Monday morning unfair for painting the presumed Republican nominee as a greedy business mogul who destroys jobs.

Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex lost more than 100 points Monday afternoon trade as the slump in European markets and a worse-than-expected inflation for April hit the markets hard.

Trade relations between China and Philippines are likely to go downhill unless territorial dispute between the two governments over the South China Sea is resolved, believe experts. The standoff has apparently extended to economic crisis, with fruit trade and tourism sectors already taken a hit, the China Daily reported. Unless bilateral tensions ease over disputed ownership of Huangyan Island, the problem may likely worsen with economic sanctions imposed.

Asian markets fell Monday as concerns surrounding Greece exiting the euro zone and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party losing the state election dampened sentiments.

India's inflation rose unexpectedly in April compared to last year denting prospects further loosening the monetary policy to regain the economic growth momentum.

Financial-market participants around the world have reasons for both optimism and pessimism at the dawn of this trading week. But nobody appears to care, really. Unless the reason centers on Greece -- and, by implication, the future of the euro zone.

The estimate of California's budget deficit in its next fiscal year has ballooned to $16 billion from $9 billion, state Gov. Jerry Brown divulged in a YouTube video posted this weekend. Brown said the widening gap was caused by changing conditions on both the revenue and the cost sides of the ledger.

Suspected drug gang killers dumped the mutilated bodies of more than 40 people on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey in one of the worst atrocities to hit Mexico in recent years.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a crushing defeat Sunday in Germany's most populous state, which could embolden the left opposition to step up its criticism of her European austerity policies.

The GOP touts itself as the party of job creation. But the party of which president - Democratic or Republican - creates more jobs per year, on average?

Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, dealing another blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban.

Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an officer said Sunday.

Greece's president met with party leaders on Sunday in a final bid to form a coalition and avert a new election, but the talks immediately appeared doomed because of deep splits over the EU/IMF rescue plan.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards protesting against the economic crisis and the austerity measures marched on the streets of different cities in the country Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the Indignados movement that ignited similar protests worldwide.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of several Spanish cities late Saturday in what is described as a massive social movement against the economic atrocities the nation is coerced into.