About 90 percent of Syrian crude exports went to Europe -- oil revenues represented about one-fifth of Syria’s GDP.
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday appeared to be inching toward a deal on boosting its financial firepower with Japan, Sweden and Denmark committing a total of $77 billion to help contain the euro zone debt crisis.
As natural gas and oil extraction expands across the United States thanks to hydraulic fracturing and advances in horizontal drilling, almost half of the country's legislatures either have enacted or have pending legislation that regulates the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing.
Reserves of the hard to extract, unconventional gas deposits could exceed 1,000 trillion cubic feet, experts now believe, ranking the UK alongside China, the U.S. and Argentina
Concerning the rhetoric coming from the White House recently, much of the punditry has found itself shocked and alarmed.
The CEO of the biggest oil company in one of the world's fastest-rising economies thinks high oil prices are here to stay.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, an influential conservative organization that helps craft state-level legislation, announced on Tuesday that it would halt its work on a Public Safety and Elections Task Force that had formulated voter identification and gun laws.
The Tibetan Buddhist leader called the self-immolations “very sad” and blamed Beijing for them.
Back in October, the Speaker said he wouldn't support anyone in the race until the general election, in order to give each of the candidates a fair shot. The country is still months away from the convention, but Boehner's endorsement unofficially seals the deal: the Republican establishment wants Romney to be the nominee.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied allegations that he tried for years to sell a nuclear reactor to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) Chief Financial Officer David Viniar took questions from analysts on Tuesday morning in a wide-ranging call that touched on government regulation, risk, departures of the firm's partners and the firm's standing on Wall Street. Here are five key points.
UK Prime minister David Cameron is pushing China for a proper investigation of the death of British expatriate, Neil Heywood, which is at the center of a political scandal in China involving disgraced party boss Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai.
Shintaro Ishihara may not be a household name in the United States. But in East Asia, he is often at the center of international controversy because of nationalistic-themed statements that regularly infuriate China and South Korea -- and on Monday, he did it again.
A new study from the Sunlight Foundation shows that big corporations have an outsize effect on taxation policy in the United States.
In a veiled reference to the United States and Israel's refusal to rule out military action against Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program, Ahmadinejad added that foreign interference would destabilize the entire region.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to pass a series of measures that would help limit what he called speculation that's driving up the price of oil and gasoline.
Asia is experiencing an increase in newspaper circulation, giving hope to newspaper publications that fear their eclipse in western countries, such as the United States.
''The tests are about trying to create equality with China rather than trying to outdo it,'' an analyst at the New Delhi-based National Maritime Foundation, said, in a published report.
Even as donors and party leaders coalesce behind Mitt Romney, the probable Republican nominee is having a hard time getting voters to like him.
Calls are mounting for Republicans to denounce right-winged rocker Ted Nugent's suggestion that he'd kill President Obama as the Secret Service says they're looking into the matter.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York said 68-year-old David Gilmartin went to great lengths to avoid his legal obligation as a citizen to pay taxes.
The 30 Rock actor and political and arts activist told Bloomberg TV's Betty Liu on Tuesday that he is still open to the idea of running for mayor one day, despite ruling out a 2013 campaign a few months ago.
Continued shelling in the former rebel stronghold of Homs and the southern town Busra al-Harir killed two civilians and wounded dozens more.
Abdul-Rahim blamed Iran for ruining efforts by Hamas and Fatah to reconcile.
Former conservative French President Jacques Chirac will vote for the socialist Francois Hollande in Sunday's presidential elections instead of his successor and one-time protege, the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
Mitt Romney hopes to raise $800 million in conjunction with the Republican National Committee, raising the prospect of a presidential election that shatters previous fundraising records.
1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have gone on a hunger strike on Tuesday, National Prisoner's Day, to protest Israel's practice of administrative detention and the intolerable treatment in Israeli jails.
Romney said the controversy was the most wounding of his campaign.
President Barack Obama will announce a plan on Tuesday to increase oversight and crack down on oil market manipulation, the White House said.
The pullout will see the 1,500-strong Australian contingent leave Afghanistan by the end of 2013, a year earlier than planned, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday.
