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Jordan has begun training former Libyan rebels who fought against Moammar Gadhafi as policemen as part of a program to strengthen relations between the two countries.

Foreign minister may push for Security Council action, which would almost certainly be vetoed by Russia and China.

East Asia is rife with new military activity as maritime disputes highlight persistent tensions between neighbors.

The ever-controversial screening policies of the TSA are under the microscope again after Dina Frank, a 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, was rigorously patted down to the point where her family missed their flight.

Matthew Owens is still in critical condition after being assaulted by a mob of black men and women in Alabama on Saturday, who allegedly said the beating was Justice for Trayvon [Martin]. Now neighbors are saying the mob reacted to Owens yelling racial slurs at a group of black children playing basketball in front of his home and pulling two knives on them earlier that day.

In a conversation suffused with themes and talking points sure to resurface during the election, the commander-in-chief touched on topics as diverse as climate change, the tenor of the rhetoric on Capitol Hill and his fondness for The Daily Show and Homeland.

Greece will no longer pay benefits to 200,000 fraudsters and dead pensioners; Greek central-bank governor warns of departure from euro zone if budget cuts are not followed

Tareq Salahi crashed the White House, but does he have a chance at the governor's mansion in Virginia?

Sarkozy has to walk a fine line between trying not to alienate Le Pen?s supporters, while appearing not to agree with some of their more extremist points of view.

Bill O'Reilly, one of the most controversial and most-watched figures in cable news, re-signed a multi-year deal with Fox News. Terms of the deal were not disclosed by Fox.

Two weeks after ending his presidential campaign and a bitter rivalry with Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum reluctantly admitted he would support the former Massachusetts governor if he won the nomination on CNN Tuesday night but refused to call it an endorsement.

According to a survey released this week, oil and natural gas executives and investors think the price of natural gas will remain below $2.50 per 1,000 cubic feet for the rest of the year -- a level that is too low for the industry's growth.

The target U.S. interest rate will remain at its current level of 0 to 0.25 percent through late 2014, the Federal Open Market Committee led by Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke decided at a meeting Wednesday.

Speaking before Levenson inquiry, Murdoch's denial of widespread political leverage by his News Corporation stable of publications and TV channels came as British Prime Minister David Cameron admitted politicians on all sides of the political spectrum had become too close to the Media mogul.

Hillary Clinton continues to prove she has quite the sense of humor, cracking jokes at the Time 100 Gala in New York City Tuesday night.

The high costs and moral implications of applying the death penalty has led five states to repeal their capital punishment laws in the same number of years.

The U.S. military will conduct a comprehensive review of its training materials in an effort to eliminate any anti-Islamic content, Wired's Danger Room reported.

Gantz?s moderate and cautious rhetoric is a far cry from the dramatic statements and belligerent stances of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud Barak,

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who trails candidate Francois Hollande in France's presidential elections, said that he will not make a deal with the far-right National Front party.

You finally get to meet the president of the United States and you spill yogurt on him. That is exactly what happened to University of Colorado freshman Kolbi Zerbest yesterday.

In the wake of Mitt Romney's romp through five more Republican primary states, Newt Gingrich suggested that he was poised to leave the presidential race.

The newest woman on the American political scene is Utah Republican Mayor Mia Love. Love, the Saratoga Springs mayor, made recent headlines when she beat out two well-known former state lawmakers for the Republican nomination in the 4th Congressional District.

Décio Sá, a political journalist and blogger, was shot and killed at a restaurant in the state capital of Sao Luis on Monday night, making him the fourth reporter to be murdered in Brazil in 2012.

Ahmad Fawzi said the small advance team of UN monitors was unable to stop the bloodshed between opposition forces and government troops.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi gave no indication on Wednesday that the ECB was poised to provide more support for banks or governments but also said the time was not right to consider rolling back its crisis-fighting measures.

The African Union has given Sudan and South Sudan an ultimatum in hopes of preventing a new war between the neighboring nations.

The missile?s impact point was somewhere in the Indian Ocean, according to the military unit.

A senior North Korean military officer has claimed that Pyongyang is equipped with powerful modern weapons capable of defeating the US. This declaration coincides with speculation that the reclusive Asian nation may be planning to conduct a nuclear test, following its failed rocket launch on April 13.

Fundamentally, the case pivots on the relationship between states and the federal government when it comes to enforcing immigration law.