Myanmar President Thein Stein hopes to achieve a resolution with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda about Myanmar's debt.
Fearing a trade war, a Spanish oil executive is asking Madrid to take a cautious approach to how it responds to Argentina's seizure of two subsidiaries of a Spanish oil major .
Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama have already made use of lotteries to entice donations, promising a chance to meet the presidential candidate with a small contribution.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi. Along with Russia, China is one of the few countries that has yet to abandon the Syrian government.
World leaders sharpened their condemnations of the bloodshed in Syria on Thursday, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the United Nations to adopt a resolution similar to the one that enabled the NATO operation in Libya.
One of the Secret Service supervisors ousted for allegedly soliciting prostitutes in Colombia also worked alongside Sarah Palin and made lewd jokes about her appearance on his Facebook page - but she may have had the last laugh.
China has provided some assistance to North Korea's missile program, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday, a week after the hermit state's failed rocket launch triggered international condemnation.
South Korea, Japan, the United Nations and the U.S. believe that North Korea intends to develop ballistic missile tests and have roundly condemned Pyongyang’s program.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir ordered his forces to withdraw from the town of Heglig on Friday, even though he still believes the oil field is property of South Sudan.
Major emerging powers stood ready on Friday to pledge money to bolster the International Monetary Fund's crisis-fighting war chest, though Brazil was holding out for promises that their voting power at the global lender would increase.
Chinese experts believe that India has downplayed the capacity of its new nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V. Du Wenlong, a researcher at China's PLA Academy of Military Sciences has told Global Times that Agni-V is more powerful than what is claimed by New Delhi.
The business confidence in Germany increased in April, indicating that the country's economy is continuing to withstand the pressures of looming debt crisis in Eurozone.
Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's plan for resolution of Siachen issue, which includes bilateral withdrawal of troops from the disputed zone, was met with a cautious welcome from India due to the concern on whether Islamabad would authenticate the ground position line at the world's highest battlefield.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday for reassurance that New Delhi welcomes foreign capital and remains committed to boosting bilateral trade and investment, following concerns connected to India's newly proposed retrospective tax measures.
Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire.
As Earth Day approaches on April 22, organizers view 2012 as a pivotal year to bring the environmental issues facing the planet to the forefront of the global political agenda.
Two of the Secret Service agents being ousted over a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, were identified Thursday.
Two years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a deep-sea biodiversity study suggests residual oil from the BP blowout threatens the stability of the entire Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.
On Thursday, protestors in Egypt took control of Cairo's Oct. 6 bridge, the cite where over a year ago anti-government demonstrators violently clashed with the forces of then-President Hosni Mubarak.
The American Petroleum Institute, the leading oil industry trade group, renewed its call Thursday for President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, now that a route change has been proposed.
The secret service agents currently embroiled in a Colombian prostitution scandal apparently did some advance planning before arriving. The presidential body guard booked a party space at the Hotel Caribe before heading out to hit up a few Colombian nightclubs, hotel sources told ABC News.
A study conducted along the Florida coast suggests the Gulf of Mexico is far from decontaminated two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and that a dispersant used in the aftermath of the spill may be partly to blame.
It is interesting now to see Republicans' newfound support of judicial review after the passage of health reform under a Democratic president, said U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
All passengers are believed to be American nationals.
Organizers announce that Microsoft will be the official innovation provider, working on ways to use Xbox and other technology at the GOP event.
As Afghanistan troop withdrawals are scheduled for 2014, Australia has renewed its pledge to adhere to NATO plans. But an abrupt U-turn this week indicates the political difficulties of adhering to an international commitment.
ALEC attempted to recruit conservative bloggers at a Heritage Foundation event as part of a public relations counteroffensive, as corporate sponsors continued to drop the company.
The Arab League called an emergency meeting on Thursday over the quickly escalating violence between Sudan and South Sudan.
Farm workers and activists seized 30,000 acres of public land in Honduras on Thursday as part of a dispute with the government and large landowners.
Since fleeing the capital he has lived in exile in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, but has recently made trips to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
