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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said the country will enact legislation next week that will lift the emergency laws that have been in place for 48 years.

A recent study says IT professionals and executives are more concerned about cyber criminals than insider trading.

An Egyptian supreme administrative court has dissolved the former ruling organization of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

Diana, Princess of Wales, was the subject of an FBI investigation after an agent was told someone had mailed a bomb as a wedding present according to de-classified documents.

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Soldiers loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi are using cluster bombs on rebel groups and civilians in the city of Misrata, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The House of Representatives set the bar for an upcoming debate on the 2012 budget by passing a $3.5 trillion federal bill on Friday that spends $179 billion less than President Barack Obama's proposal in February.

The leader of Algeria has promised to effect constitutional reforms and high unemployment, among other measures to ward off the kind of civil unrest that has swept across the Arab world.

President Barack Obama signed the law that officially averts a federal shutdown but objected to and vowed to repeal rules attached to it that prevent the use of money to transfer detainees out of Guantanamo Bay or to foreign countries.

A new bill in Congress would force NASA to move one of the retired space shuttles to Houston; instead of New York City as intended.

The biggest difference between President Barack Obama and Republican plans on spending and over the next decade or so is in healthcare, although smaller, but significant spending differences remain in other categories. The U.S. debt, currently at $14.3 billion will grow by trillions of dollars under budget plans from both sides.

The US House of Representatives has passed a budget plan for 2012 which seeks to reduce $6.2 trillion in spending by the government over the next decade.

President Barack Obama continues pushing cyber security with the introduction of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

Dozens of people have been injured in a major clash between hard-line Islamic protesters and government supporters in the town of Zarqa in Jordan on Friday.

Donald Trump is dominating a new Republican presidential nominee poll.

Members of NATO are deeply divided over how much they want to participate in the military campaign in Libya. In fact, out of the 28 nations in the alliance, only five are actually conducting air strikes on the North African country, while 13 members (almost half) are offering no support to the mission at all.

Security forces have fired teargas to disperse tens of thousands of protesters in Damascus, in one of the biggest rallies against the regime Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad since unrest erupted one month ago.

Three Conservative MPs have said that Parliament should be recalled from Easter recess because Prime Minister David Cameron’s strategy in Libya is clearly designed to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power, which is not what the original intent was for the Libyan campaign, they claim.

President Barack Obama joked about his birthplace on Thursday at a campaign speech in Chicago where he prepared supporters at a fundraiser for a 2012 presidential re-election run.

The defense minister of France has indicated that in order to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power in Egypt, a new resolution would have to be drafted by the UN Security Council.

Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, could face execution if he is convicted of charges that he ordered his security forces to kill anti-government protesters during the unrest earlier this year that eventually toppled his regime.

Two prominent Croatian military leaders have been convicted of committing war crimes against Serbs during the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, following a trial at The Hague, Netherlands.

Congress on Thursday passed a budget that covers the next five and half months, sealing last week's deal to avert a shutdown, with President Barack Obama set to sign it into law.

By even entertaining the possibility of making any type of presidential announcements on The Apprentice, Donald Trump has just lost all his credibility as a serious presidential candidate. He also made a mockery of the 2012 presidential race and the democratic process of the United States.

The Bahraini government has delayed plans to ban two principal opposition political parties -- al-Wefaq and the Islamic Action Society --on the heels of criticism from the U.S. government.

An Italian peace activist was murdered in Gaza as a result of a feud between Hamas and another militant group, the ultra-radical Salafi.

This article originally appeared in The Times, The Washington Post and Le Figaro

US President Barack Obama has joined with his counterparts in Britain and France, David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy, to pledge that the battle in Libya will persist until Moammar Gaddafi is removed from power.

A memo released online by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in its 'Vault' has emerged as proof for the famed landing -- or crash or capture -- of a flying saucer with three dead aliens in Roswell in New Mexico in June 1947.