Bahraini bankers expressed relief on Sunday that the February 14 anniversary of last year's democracy uprising passed without major disruptions but said lenders needed to see more infrastructure projects in the Gulf bank and tourism hub.
Police and regime militia patrols fanned out in Damascus' Mezze district Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on the capital, opposition activists said.
Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said.
Iran would not wait for the European Union oil embargo to start on July 1. In a stern retaliatory move, Tehran announced on Sunday it will stop selling crude to French and British oil companies.
Gas prices in the U.S. have gone past $3.50 a gallon, the highest price this time of the year, ticking panic among people who have begun to see the price rises as oppressive.
Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday.
Iran has halted sales of crude oil to British and French companies, the oil ministry said Sunday. Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped, representative Alireza Nikzad was quoted as saying by the Islamic Republic's ministry of petroleum Web site.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul got more than double the number of votes polled for Mitt Romney in the rescheduled Republican caucus held on Saturday in Eastern Maine. Still on a state wise count Paul couldn't defeat Romney in Maine, where a recounting was done to include poll results from counties which went unaccounted earlier.
North Korea warned South Korea on Sunday that it would shell islands close to their disputed sea border should there be a violation of territorial waters during a military drill reported to begin in the Yellow Sea this week.
Riot police shielded Greece's national parliament Sunday as demonstrators gathered to protest against austerity measures on the eve of talks in Brussels on a 130 billion euro ($171 billion) bailout needed for the country to avert bankruptcy. (See Eurozone Crisis in Graphics and Interactive Timeline.)
African Union Chairman Thomas Boni Yayi will visit some of the continent's conflict areas -- including Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, and Libya -- for direct talks, an aide said on Saturday.
Struggling to retain his status as the Republican favorite for the White House, Mitt Romney attempted on Saturday to return to his glory days as CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic organizing committee -- and the crowds at two tribute ceremonies in Salt Lake showed their appreciation.
On Thursday, Rick Santorum's multi-millionaire mega-donor, Foster Friess, maintained that Bayer aspirin is a sufficient form of birth control. The remark raised eyebrows and sparked a debate about female contraception.
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Steven Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that a case challenging a century-old Montana law prohibiting corporate political spending could lead to a new challenge to the court's controversial Citizens United ruling of 2010.
The lyrics tell the story of a young woman who becomes part of the Hollywood-New York celebrity scene... and ultimately succumbs to the deadly lure of drug abuse.
It seems as though the past is coming back to haunt Rick Santorum. The current hot-button political topic is contraception, which may have led Buzzfeed to rummage through the archives of Santorum statements and dig out his brutally conservative comments in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press last June.
Given that Pakistan has extensive experience with nuclear weapons technology, is it conceivable that they would offer any assistance with Iran’s embryonic atomic project?
Amnesty International describes the situation in northern Mali as the country’s worst crisis in two decades.
Ethnic Latvians think the vote represents an effort to compromise the nation’s independence from its former overlords, the Russians.
Iranian warships have entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. It is only the second time since 1979, when a revolution established an Islamic Republic in Iran, that this has happened.
Hague claimed that London has urged the Israelis not to launch such a strike.
Maryland's House of Delegates on Friday approved by a razor-thin margin a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry, putting it on the road to joining six other states where gay and lesbian nuptials are legal. The Maryland vote came shortly after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoed a similar measure.
Masters of the Eurozone are considering tweaks to Greek debt restructuring in terms of its private-sector involvement among several options to further cut Greek debt toward the target of 120 percent of gross domestic product in 2020, officials said.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul Friday criticized the criminalization of Marijuana in Washington state. He was speaking at a campaign event in the state.
Iran is clearly trying to develop nuclear-weapons capability -- and if it succeeds, then it will set off a dangerous round of nuclear proliferation across the Middle East -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in an interview published on Saturday.
Syrian government forces, disregarding U.N. condemnation, renewed their bombardment of the opposition stronghold of Homs on Saturday as a Chinese minister prepared for talks with embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
The Dow finished the week with solid gains Friday, edging closer to the 13000 mark which could be another indication of improvement in the U.S. economy.
Winning The Future. Greater Together. We Don't Quit. They may not be official, but those are all phrases that could in one form or another be candidates to become President Barack Obama's re-election slogan. Currently, his campaign posters simply say, Obama 2012.
The consumer price index rose 0.2 percent, below the expected 0.3 percent, according to the January consumer price index report from the Labor Department which could be suggesting a strengthening of the economic recovery.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's struggles in Michigan are fueling speculation that Republicans might have to resort to a doomsday scenario and launch a frantic search for a 2012 savior at their nominating convention in late August.
