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Bulgarian opposition wins election
The new centre-right Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria party (GERB) of Sofia mayor Boyko Borisov won Bulgaria's general elections with 39.7 percent support, official results showed, with 99.88 percent of the ballots counted.
The new head of MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, was at the centre of an embarrassing security row yesterday after it emerged that his wife had posted personal information and intimate family photographs on the internet.
Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president of Honduras, flew to El Salvador to plan his return with allied presidents after the acting government prevented his plane from landing and several of his supporters were shot at a rally.
President Felipe Calderon suffered a setback in midterm elections yesterday when the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party unseated his party as the largest force in Mexico’s fractured Congress in a vote that turned on the global economic c...
Honduran officials said Friday that they will not restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power, rebuffing a last-ditch appeal by the top diplomat for the Organization of American States in face-to-face meetings.
A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him in an editorial Saturday of committing crimes against the nation .
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon was denied permission to see Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, reporters traveling with the secretary-general said Saturday.
Pakistani military helicopter crash kills 26
A Pakistani Army helicopter crashed in a northwestern tribal area that is a Taliban stronghold on Friday, killing at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and paramilitary fighters.
Dozens of protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport, Charles de Gaulle's Terminal 3 on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros — a route that saw a deadly crash this week, after years of complaints about dan...
British Study Madoff Payments to Austrian Banker
British authorities have started an investigation into millions of dollars of payments from the operations of the convicted money manager Bernard L. Madoff to companies linked to the Austrian banker Sonja Kohn, an Austrian official confirmed on Fr...
British Airways (BA) said it had cut its spending plans by 20 percent for the current year as it prepared for a lengthy industry downturn and reported that passenger numbers had fallen again.
No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA head
The incoming head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear arms.
Libyan leader pushes ‘United States of Africa’
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Friday raised the possibility of a referendum across Africa on his dream of a "United States of Africa", at the end of a regional summit.
North Korea fired five ballistic missiles into the sea between the Communist state and Japan on Saturday in a move that flouted a United Nations Security Council resolution and sent a message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Da...
Sarah Palin resigns as Alaska governor
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin abruptly announced Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, a shocking move that rattled the Republican party but left open the possibility she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.
Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano to head IAEA
The UN's nuclear watchdog has elected Yukiya Amano, a Japanese diplomat, as its new director-general.
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who faces growing calls to quit over an extramarital affair, did not misuse public funds in trips he made to see his mistress, the state's top police official said on Thursday.
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, will travel to Honduras on Friday as part of a diplomatic attempt to restore deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power.
MySpace suicide bully acquitted
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday tentatively threw out the conviction of a Missouri woman for her role in a cruel Internet hoax on a teenage girl who ended up committing suicide.
The Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean June 1 hit the water in one piece and none of the life jackets found later were inflated, suggesting passengers were taken by surprise, French investigators said.