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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting with his 29 cabinet ministers in Jerusalem on Tuesday, after which he announced that an agreement was finally summarized and both sides signed.

While most Mormons consider themselves Christians, many Americans -- especially Evangelical Protestants -- do not believe that is the case.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk, leader of the center-right pro-market Civic Platform (PO) party, won re-election in Poland Sunday night. For the first time since the fall of communism in 1989, the major political party in Poland has maintained its grip on power. The fairly fought election in the formerly communist country establishes the country's democratic and economic stability.

New California health law will allow minors to get HPV vaccine without parental consent.

The Unites States and the European Union has said the trial for former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was politically motivated and has condemned the seven-year jail sentence.

The country music star has more harsh words.

Iranian police chief Ahmadi Moghadam said he would resign if anyone proved that the results of a recent survey were accurate.

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. endorsed Mitt Romney, saying Republicans need to abandon their purity test and nominate someone who can win against President Obama.

A coalition of community groups allied with Occupy Wall Street transplanted their critique from downtown Manhattan to the Upper East Side on Tuesday, rallying in front of the stately apartment buildings of billionaires that included News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, Koch Industries vice president David Koch and New York Private Bank & Trust CEO president Howard Milstein.

Few in Congo's Katanga copper belt are happy with local provincial governor Moise Katumbi's decision to return to business after five years in politics.

HSBC cut its weighting on Egypt to "neutral" from "overweight," on increased political risks, and upgraded Poland to "overweight" from "underweight," on macroeconomic stability and valuation.

Egypt's Finance Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has quit after less than three months in the post over the government's handling of a protest by Coptic Christians on Sunday night, an aide to Beblawi said on Tuesday.

A struggling South African textile union may be changing the way labour is priced in Africa's largest economy by offering massive wage reductions to unskilled workers to create jobs and save a dying industry.

South African stocks inched lower on Tuesday, as skittish investors sold BHP Billiton and some other index heavyweights ahead of the final voting required to extend the euro zone rescue fund.

The two men as Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen with dual Iranian and U.S. passports, and Gholam Shakuri, reportedly a member of the Quds Force.

Hank Williams Jr. posted his new song, Keep the Change, on his Web site Tuesday and appeared on The View, the week after his controversial analogy of President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler led to his disassociation with ESPN.

South Africa's rand fell as much as 2 percent against the dollar on Tuesday, breaching 8.0 in thin volumes that exaggerated its moves, before clawing back ground as some players found themselves oversold on the currency.

Year-on-year inflation in Ivory Coast was running at 4.6 percent in August, the National Statistics Institute said on its website on Tuesday, the first time it has published price data since the end of fighting earlier this year.

Twenty-eight people were arrested on suspicion of attacking soldiers and burning military vehicles during clashes between the army and demonstrators, state media reported on Tuesday.

Actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie was in Libya on Tuesday for a visit to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in Tripoli and Misrata, she said in a statement provided to Reuters.

The chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) made a highly symbolic visit to the city of Sirte on Tuesday where government forces are trying to crush the last pockets of resistance from supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The head of the worldwide Anglican Church met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday to hand him a dossier of abuses against the church and its priests in Zimbabwe and demand an end to a campaign of persecution.

Liberians queued peacefully in the rain on Tuesday for the West African state's second presidential election since its civil war, with incumbent Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf bidding for a second term.

UNICEF has announced that more than 2,000 people have died in Africa due to cholera.

Six protesters associated with the Occupy D.C. and Stop The Machine movements were arrested for demonstrating inside the Hart Senate Office building on Tuesday.

India and Pakistan agreed to issue multiple visas to businessmen from both countries for one year in order to expand bilateral trade,

Supposing honesty is the best policy, we should probably start here: For Rick Perry, Tuesday night's GOP debate at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire is do or die.

A group of executives advising President Barack Obama said Tuesday two very good ways to create more jobs in the U.S. are: attract $1 trillion in foreign direct investment within five years and upgrade the nation's transportation/energy infrastructure.

Wall Street could lose up to 10,000 jobs through the end of next year, amidst a backdrop of falling corporate profits and lower tax revenue for the city and state of New York, warns State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. One in 8 jobs in New York City and 1 in 13 jobs in New York State are connected to the securities industry.