House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, both well-known conservatives, praised Romney as some Republicans still grapple with whether they can endorse the so-called Massachusetts moderate.
Rep. Ron Paul expressed doubt Sunday that Rush Limbaugh was sincere when he apologized for calling a law student a slut over her support for President Barack Obama's new policy on insurance coverage of contraceptives.
Two British journalists working for Iran's Press TV who were detained late last month in Libya are suspected of being spies, the head of the militia holding them said Sunday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross delivered emergency aid to areas near the battered Baba Amro district of Homs Sunday, but, for the third day running, the Syrian goverment kept it out of the former rebel bastion amid reports of bloody reprisals by Assad regime forces.
Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, claimed a resounding victory with 64 percent of the vote in Russia's presidential election Sunday. He'll return to a third term as president, but opponents, citing alleged evidence of fraud, denounced the vote as illegitimate and vowed to continue their protests.
The Red Cross delivered emergency aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, but was blocked for a third day from entering the former rebel bastion amid reports of bloody reprisals by state forces.
Mitt Romney closed in on Rick Santorum in Ohio and picked up a crucial endorsement in Virginia on Sunday as he grows in strength ahead of Super Tuesday, the biggest day yet in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Read Obama's address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, where he talks about his commitment to Israel and the dangers of Iran's nuclear program.
At his annual address at the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC Sunday morning, President Barack Obama sought to reaffirm his commitment to Israel's security while warning against too much loose talk of war that has driven up the cost of oil.
As many as 200 people were killed on Sunday when an ammunition dump exploded in Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, according to multiple media sources. The incident was reportedly caused by a fire at the ammo dump.
Rush Limbaugh, host of Clear Channel Communications Inc.'s The Rush Limbaugh Show, apologized Saturday for unflattering statements he made on his radio talk show Thursday about Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student and women's-rights activist. The apology wasn't enough for some show sponsors.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is tied with former senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum in Ohio Republican primary, according to a poll released by Reuters/Ipsos Sunday.
Mitt Romney won the Washington Republican presidential straw poll by 37 percent of votes polled. However, Texas Congressman Ron Paul pulled off an impressive second place win in the state, edging out Rick Santorum.
Pakistani government has set the ball rolling for the arrest and extradition of former President Pervez Musharraf.
The burning of Qurans at a NATO base in Afghanistan helped the Taliban's cause and any repeat of similar negligence by Western forces would be disastrous, the country's army chief of staff told Reuters in an interview on Saturday.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, has criticized the government plans to legalize gay marriage. He termed it as madness and a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right.
Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister and former president, is all set to win a third presidential term in the presidential elections Sunday. In the absence of strong opponents, the election is widely considered as a one-sided battle in favor of Putin.
Gas prices are a potent weapon in an election year. TransCanada Corp's proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would move 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf, has suddenly become an inalienable part in the election rhetoric.
With Mitt Romney springing ahead and Rick Santorum falling behind, the Republican Party's presidential primary election in Ohio is looking like a dead heat, setting the stage for a cliffhanger of a contest on Super Tuesday this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Sunday.
Beijing to raise its military budget by 11.2 per cent for 2012, a move that will worry its neighbours Japan, India and other southeast Asian nations.
China will boost military spending by 11.2 percent this year, the government said on Sunday, unveiling Beijing's first defense budget since President Barack Obama launched a pivot to reinforce U.S. influence across the Asia-Pacific.
The Republican presidential primary is nearing the defining moment of the Super Tuesday. While Mitt Romney looks to throw rivals out of the park with emphatic wins in major Super Tuesday states, for the others, the future of their race will be decided no later than March 6.
Rahul Gandhi failed to deliver the election comeback he had promised for the Congress party in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, according to voter surveys released after the phased, month-long poll ended Saturday.
Many Russians reportedly feel that there is no alternative to Putin in a vote that opponents say is skewed in his favour.
When the Soviet era political permafrost melted gradually over the ten years after the 1991 collapse of the red star, the relic -- the holy relic -- that emerged was Vladimir Putin, the successor chosen by Boris Yeltsin at the end of a senselessly chaotic decade.
China will increase its defense spending by 11.2 percent this year, a government representative said on Sunday when the country disclosed its military budget. It will spend 670 billion yuan ($106.4 billion) on defense in 2012, which represents an increase of $14.4 billion over the $92 billion spent on the military in 2011.
Syrian forces continued the bombardment of Homs as the Red Cross aid convoy still awaits permission to help the hapless civilians.
U.S. President Barack Obama will be making a speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference on Sunday, a day before a critical meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran.
Mitt Romney won the Washington Republican caucuses, his third straight win ahead of Super Tuesday on March 6, with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum essentially tied for second. Romney's win gives him a much-needed end-of-the-month boost after Santorum's surprising surge in February, while Paul's campaign strategy in Washington paid off with a respectable third-place finish.
The vain Italian Fascist and the modest, unassuming Indian ascetic got along extremely well and admired each other.
