By Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's opposition and the government of President Bashar al-Assad seem to be preparing to take part in an international peace conference against a background of some of the worst fighting this year. On Tuesda... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies on Sunday in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. Although the speech was billed as the unveiling of a new peace plan,... [Full Article]
Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the s... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's warring parties largely held their fire on Friday at the start of a four-day truce marking the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, a short pause in hostilities which have killed 32,000 people and threaten to draw regional p... [Full Article]
MOSCOW/YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Opponents of President Vladimir Putin say elections in Russia are rigged in favor of his ruling party and are instead holding their own Internet contest to choose a "shadow parliament" they hope will... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Derided as an "arrogant posh boy" by a member of his own party to cap a terrible month of headlines, British Prime Minister David Cameron is in danger of slipping past a point of no return as blunders pile up and friends ... [Full Article]
Rebels and troops clashed in northern Syria as regime foes set their sights on the capital as the rallying cry for weekly protests on Friday, while the EU prepared to slap new sanctions on Damascus. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
(AFP/POOL/File) - The White House and its divided Republican foes clashed but failed to break an impasse that could see the world's richest nation default on its debt, with potentially ruinous global results.(AFP/POOL/File/Jim Watson)... [Full Article]
(AFP/Getty Images/File) - US President Barack Obama's Republican foes ramped up a fight over averting a disastrous early August debt default, tying that step to passage of a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. "We're finally b... [Full Article]
(AFP/Getty Images/File) - President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US Congress, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor challenged Democrats Friday to embrace a short-term spending bill they said was designed to avert a looming government sh... [Full Article]
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