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An Indiana law that bars clinics that provide abortions from receiving federal funding is illegal, a federal official said today.

Possible presidential candidate Sarah Palin determined in a meeting yesterday that she will continue to work as a contributor for Fox News, an indicator that she has yet to make up her mind about whether to run.

Abandoning Pakistan would be a “dangerous” step for the U.S., according to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mike Mullen.

Top elected officials toured the areas surrounding Springfield, MA on Wednesday, the third largest city in the state, after a pair of tornadoes touched down, killing 4 people.

Mitt Romney is a Mormon. There is no escaping that fact, even if it’s politically incorrect and perhaps unconstitutional (Article VI, paragraph 3) to discriminate against him for his faith.

The lure of Apple iPad 2 compelled a teenager in China to sell one his kidney's to buy the iconic tablet.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will formally announce his candidacy today with a speech that will largely attack the failures of what he dubs the Obama economy.

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The Greek government has agreed to reduce its budget deficit for this year by implementing a series of spending cuts amounting to 6.4-billion euros, according to an Athens official who spoke to Reuters.

Rep. Anthony Weiner on Thursday has decided again not to take questions from the media on a controversy over an underwear crotch photo sent through his Twitter account.

A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy calls for a broad rethinking of the war on drugs

At least 4 people died in Massachusetts after two tornadoes ripped through the western and central part of the state on Wednesday, toppling trees, causing property damage and widespread power outages as United States is experiencing one of the deadliest tornado seasons in decades.

A new law reducing sentences for crack cocaine users should apply to people already in prison for the drug, provided they were not also convicted of a violent offense and did not have an extensive criminal history, Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday.

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A lawyer for accused war criminal Ratko Mladic claim their client was treated for cancer in a hospital in Belgrade Serbia two years ago, ahead of his first appearance in a UN court at The Hague in The Netherlands.

The outbreak of E. coli in Western Europe has led Russia to impose a ban on fresh vegetable imports from the European Union (EU).

The French foreign minister Alain Juppe plans to invite his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts this month to Paris for re-starting peace talks.

As the saffron-robed Swami Ramdev, India's famous yoga guru, has pledged a hunger strike starting Saturday to protest against corruption, the government is trying to convince him otherwise.

Albania has asked China to invest in several projects and sought to strengthen its relations with Beijing.

To create a united front, Syrian opposition parties on Wednesday decided to set up a committee to prepare the country for evolution from dictatorship to democracy.

Around 27 police and paramilitary soldiers and up to 40 insurgents were killed in clashes after armed militants entered Pakistan and attacked a police checkpoint.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence denied the allegations against them that its operatives were behind the abduction and killing of the journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad.

After evading justice for 16 years, Ratko Mladic, the brain behind the horrendous Srebrenica massacre will appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday.

A report published on Thursday claims that what equals to an amnesty has been granted to more than 160,000 asylum seekers over the past five years by a UK Border Agency.The Commons home affairs select committee report says it is indefensible that officials have been unable to trace a further 74,500 asylum seekers, among a total of 450,000 unresolved legacy cases, and say the UKBA simply had no idea what where were the applicants.The agency has been working through...

A 19-member international panel has condemned the US-led War on Drugs campaign as a failure and has recommended major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime.

The U.S. has given Pakistan a deadline to launch a military offensive operation in the tribal area of North Waziristan to arrest five most wanted criminals, either independently or in a joint military action with NATO till July, a report in the Newsreporter stated.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, facing a no-confidence vote in the parliament said on Thursday that he would resign after solving nuclear crisis and other disaster related issues, reported Reuters quoting local media. Kan’s statement would raise the chances of him surviving a no-confidence vote later in the day and quell a party rebellion.

Teens should no longer be allowed to use ultraviolet tanning beds, the California Senate decided Wednesday, with a 24-9 vote.

Agustin Carstens, Mexico's central bank chief believes that he is better qualified than his main rival to run the International Monetary Fund owing to more experience and better knowledge of the institution that he has, he told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.