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The Hague is looking for evidence linking the Libyan leader to rapes committed during the current civil war.

In a major foreign policy address in New York on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty accused the Obama administration of failing to pursue American interests during the Arab Spring and of wavering on Iran.

Samples of taped conversations of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich gathered by the FBI show multiple and overwhelming examples of a public official violating the law.

On the final stop of a five-day visit to Europe, the Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao has signed a huge multi-billion euro trading agreement with Germany.

Without telling his government, the head of Afghanistan's central bank has left the country and taken up residence in the US.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords made a public appearance at a NASA function with her astronaut husband Monday evening, a spokesman said.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords made her first public appearance on Monday Night after being shot in the head in an attack on Jan 8.

Amanda Knox's appeal continued on Monday where key witness Rudy Guede placed Knox and Raffaelle Sollecito as Merideth Kercher's murderers.

After LulzSec announced its retirement after 50 days of lulz, or an Internet rampage, the flame of cyber war does not seem to be as active as it'd been. LulzSec apparently jumped back onto the boat of its old buddy, Anonymous, to continue sailing on the Operation Anti-Sec against the governments.

The Gaza Flotilla planned for this week is slated to set sail from Greece this Thursday or Friday.

The United States has officially declared its endorsement of France’s finance minister Christine Lagarde to be the next chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), virtually guaranteeing she will becomes its boss when its board meets next week.

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, is trying to insert himself back into politics, calling power brokers and would-be candidates for his old seat, hoping they’ll let him play a role in choosing his own successor, the New York Post reported.

The UN Security Council approved a resolution to protect the disputed Abyei region for 6 months.

Rod Blagojevich, who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009, was found guilty on 17 of 20 counts in his corruption trial.

Israel has backed down from its threat to ban journalists covering the pending flotilla to Gaza from entering the country for a decade.

Authorities ordered Los Alamos evacuated yesterday as a fast-growing fire blazed across New Mexico, with flames coming within a mile of the famed nuclear research facility.

Supporters of California's gay marriage ban are appealing a ruling that a U.S. judge's own gay relationship was no basis for throwing out his decision in support of same-sex marriage.

In the wake of New York becoming the sixth and largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, couples face a practical question: what does this law do?

A federal judge yesterday blocked two of the more stringent provisions of a new Georgia immigration law, saying they would have supplanted federal immigration laws.

China has asked the US not to interfere in mounting tensions between Beijing, Hanoi and three other Southeast Asian governments over the South China Sea.

Party leader Martine Aubry announced she will seek to become the Socialist candidate for president in the 2012 French election.

Google on Monday disclosed that United State government requested user data from the company, more than 4,600 times last year.

A Security Awareness bulletin issued by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urges vigilance over the July Fourth weekend, as terror network al Qaeda might be contemplating an attack on the Independence Day.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is expected to face minimum 10 years in prison after being convicted of fraud, attempted extortion and bribery.

Canadian royalists are asking for the installation of Prince Harry as their king in a bid to silence those who believe that the country should have an elected head of state.

The court didn’t find any convincing evidence to deny the sale of the video games.

Ford Motors Co spent $1.67 million lobbying tax breaks for electric cars, incentives for spending on research, manufacturing and other issues during the first quarter.

Aspiring Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann discovered on Sunday that actor John Wayne is a different person altogether from John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who raped and murdered more than 30 teen boys and young men in the 1970s. Alas! it was too late.

Reggie Brown, whose prominence as a President Obama impersonator got a boost after a performance at a prominent GOP conference recently, got a chance to finish what he started after his performance was cut short by an official.