A newly re-elected President Barack Obama will once again deal with a divided Congress as Democrats retained control of the U.S. Senate while Republicans kept their majority in the House of...

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney left Americans to vote Tuesday with a stark choice between their fundamentally different visions for the country's future after an...

Israel said Tuesday that it was pushing forward with construction of more than 1,200 new homes in Jewish settlements, in an apparent warning to the Palestinians to rethink their plan to ask the United...

Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the country's defence minister on Tuesday, two weeks after a criminal probe was opened into alleged fraud in the sell-off of military...

In the eight months since I became Vice Foreign Minister in charge of European affairs, I have paid nearly ten visits to Europe. During each visit, I witnessed the tremendous efforts made by Europe to...

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney closed out their hard-fought and deeply negative battle for the White House, leaving Americans voting Tuesday with a stark choice between...

A team of Swiss investigators visited the West Bank grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Monday to determine how best to dig up remains and extract samples ahead of their exhumation later...

The outcome of the hard-fought but still deadlocked presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney will be decided Nov. 6 by a small percentage of voters in...

A mother's attempt to give her two-year-old son a better view of wild African dogs turned into a tragedy at the Pittsburgh Zoo after the boy fell into the exhibit and was killed by a pack of the...

Among the many arguments that former Serbian President Slobodan Miloševic used to make to his interlocutors was that he never incited nationalism among his people. Indeed, his public statements...