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Washington - The White House has decided that President Obama will not offer formal condolences — at least for now — to Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen …

Cairo - Islamists claimed a decisive victory on Wednesday as early election results put them on track to win a dominant majority in Egypt’s first Parliament since the ouster …

United Nations - Since it launched in 1997, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women has distributed more than 78 million dollars to 339 projects around …

Washington - Texas cotton grower Brad Heffington speaks Wall Street's language of hedges, correlation charts and the like as easily as he discusses weevils and pesticides. Yet today his …

(Photo: Nick Surgey of Common Cause) What do you get for the corporation that has everything? More of the same—money, power, and influence. That’s the mission and …

At the last GOP presidential debate, Newt Gingrich asserted his support for an immigration plan that would accord an undocumented immigrant “red card” status — that is, give them …

Busan, South Korea - Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, …

Oklahoma City - In the early morning hours of Black Friday, 10 members of Occupy OKC discovered that chanting “Buy local!” in a crowded Walmart is an arrestable …

2012 GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich today, during an event in South Carolina, said that he repudiates the very idea behind the Occupy Wall Street movement — that the …

For centuries, wave after wave of colonists and foreign investors have swept through Africa, looking for profits from the continent’s abundant reserves of oil and prized minerals. …