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Natural gas companies have until Jan. 1, 2015, to install air emission equipment on hydraulically fractured wells that is designed to capture and prevent toxins and methane from escaping into the atmosphere.

A CBS/New York Times poll said U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney are tied with 46 percent of likely voters each.

Iran said that the nuclear negotiations have proved that Western countries are unable to force Iran to surrender and give up its absolute and legitimate rights to use peaceful nuclear energy.

Recently, India also commissioned a Russian-made nuclear submarine, and it is negotiating with a French company for more than a hundred Rafale fighter jets.

Much of the American public believes there is a connection between global climate change and a recent surge in dire weather conditions like droughts, heat waves and flooding.

The ship flies an Antigua and Barbuda flag and that it is chartered to a Ukrainian company.

BP officials announced Wednesday the company has finalized a deal with thousands of plaintiffs for damages sustained as a result of the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced he will 'liberate' South Sudan during a political rally Wednesday as clashes along the border intensify.

The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council disbanded a task force that had advocated for “Stand Your Ground” laws in states as well as voter identification laws.

Gohmert's joking comments highlights a problem haunting the Romney campaign: no one is excited about his nomination.

In its final progress report, the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill concluded more must be done to prevent a similar disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Wednesdayhe was supporting Mitt Romney for president, another unsurprising but important endorsement for the likely Republican nominee.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law allowing torture victims to sue for human rights abuses abroad can only target individuals, not groups.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine civilians were killed Tuesday, adding that the shelling of urban areas by government forces appears to be spreading to more towns and cities.

Iran has released more details about what it says was Israel-backed terror plot broken up last week, including the revelation that 15 people, accused of being Iranian and foreign spies, were arrested for planning to assassinate an Iranian expert.

Nobel Prize Laureate and opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, plans to leave Myanmar to visit Europe - her first time out of the country in 24 years.

The Massachusetts congressman told the New York Times Magazine that he believes its important for him to marry while he's still in office.

The 50-ton, 20-meter Agni V rocket -- also known as the “China Killer” by Indian media -- could conceivably reach any target in Asia and even parts of Eastern Europe.

A Florida law mandating drug testing for welfare applicants failed to save money or identify many drug abusers, data that sharpens concerns about a similar law just enacted in Georgia.

Right-winged rocker and Mitt Romney surrogate Ted Nugent likened himself to a ­black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally after appearing on a radio show defending his speech at an NRA convention, where he said he would either be dead or in jail, if Barack Obama gets re-elected president.

Prime Minister David Cameron said late last year that Britain would never join the euro as long as he held office.

It's fair to say the 2012 presidential election can be a dog-eat-dog world sometimes. A new development in the Twitter universe of he-said-she-said political discourse has taken that to a whole new level.

A shocking controversy has come out of Sweden after the countries Minister of Culture, Lena Andelsohn Lijeroth was photographed performing genital mutilation on a cake in the shape of a cartoonish, stereotypical African woman. Amidst the backlash a bomb threat was called in at Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art two days later, while the artist who designed the cake maintains that his work is just misunderstood.

On the third day of this terror trial on Wednesday, Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik refused to give details about the members of the Knights Templar, a mysterious militia that police suspect does not exist.

The United States, the largest contributor in terms of manpower and money by far, is expected to ask alliance members to shoulder a quarter of the costs of supporting Afghan forces.

Economic experts watching Spain don't know how much money will be needed or precisely when, but some are near certain that Madrid will eventually seek a multi-billion euro bailout for its banks, and perhaps even for the state itself.

Sri Lanka has denied Indian media reports that it approached the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with safety concerns about the nuclear power plant under construction in Kudankulam, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

HSBC Holdings PLC is planning to sell yuan-denominated bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange, a move that will make the City the first place outside mainland China or Hong Kong to do business in the currency.

Home prices in China fell in March, indicating that the government's efforts to curb the property market boom are gaining further momentum.