The Obama administration is all set to file a case against China's export restrictions on rare earth at the World Trade Organization.
The markets may currently be giving Italy the benefit of the doubt, but recent data have supported a gloomy view of the economic outlook according to Capital Economics.
In contrast to other regions, February’s inflation data from Saudi Arabia and Egypt show that price pressures are mounting according to Capital Economics.
The West clashed with Russia at the United Nations Security Council over Syria Monday, as activists and the Damascus government traded blame for a massacre of civilians in the city of Homs.
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are closing the gap on President Barack Obama, a new CBS News/New York Times poll found Monday.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the death penalty could be sought over the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan, which U.S. officials said they believe was the work of a rogue American soldier.
Israel and militant Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have agreed to an Egyptian-mediated truce to end four days of cross-border violence in which 25 Palestinians have been killed, a senior Egyptian security official said early Tuesday.
An alarmingly large amount of Republican voters in Mississippi and Alabama believe President Barack Obama is Muslim and doubt evolution, according to a new poll.
In a presidential progress report published Monday, the U.S. seems poised to meet President Barack Obama's future energy plans as outlined in March of last year.
The U.S. Federal Reserve's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee has its monthly meeting Tuesday, but no policy changes are expected, economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch say.
Rick Santorum says he can deny Mitt Romney the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican presidential nomination and then win at the convention himself.
Soon after Sarkozy's election in 2007, he invited Gadhafi to pitch his tent on the grounds of the French presidential palace in Paris.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sought to distance himself from his GOP opponents with an op-ed tying Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney to radical environmentalists sounding the alarm on climate change.
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or Pasok, will vote Sunday on a replacement for party leader George Papandreou, the former prime minister. Venizelos is the only candidate.
The soaring cost of gasoline may end up being the most important issue of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign.
The top U.S. diplomat urged all countries to speak with one voice ... that the killing of innocent Syrians must stop. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said the regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad has subjected its citizens in several cities to military assault and disproportionate use of force.
It is our view that a rate cut from China could prove to be the next catalyst to push equity markets higher.
In a bid to tamp down high gas prices, federal regulators hope to have rules in place that would limit oil and gasoline price speculation on Wall Street in several months.
Somali rebel group al-Shabab denied responsibility for the deadly bomb attacks in Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday.
The BNP’s Islamist ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, also participated and demanded that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday of cynically launching new military assaults while meeting with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan over the weekend.
In a referendum, 67 percent of Swiss voters said no to extending annual leave to six weeks from four, while a majority in Zurich approved setting up temporary shelters known as sex boxes from which licensed prostitutes can work.
Boeing Co. and Airbus SAS both claimed victory Monday in a World Trade Organization ruling that the U.S. aircraft maker had received unfair government subsidies.
On Sunday, many world leaders addressed the anniversary of Fukushima, an event that not only brought tremendous sadness but also a debate on the safety and future of nuclear energy programs.
The U.S. Department of Justice Monday objected Texas' strict new voter ID law.
Japanese officials estimate that the total cost of reconstruction will total about 23 trillion yen over the next decade.
In the reddest of red states, Mitt Romney is benefiting from conservatives' divided support for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
Is Mississippi, the most conservative and poorest state in America, racist, toothless and idiotic?
An American soldier's alleged massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has inflamed anger against U.S. troops at a time when the American public -- increasingly including Republicans -- is tiring of America's decade-long presence in Afghanistan.
As ministers meet to finalize the Greek payout, concerns have been raised that Spain may become the next challenge for the Union as it struggles to keep its debt-ridden Southern members afloat.
