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Washington - The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier — holding 30 per cent of the market — but the Obama administration has begun modifying export …

The last month has seen six Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, bringing our country’s total to seventeen. Yet even with a federal election looming and 61 percent of Australians …

Where is this elusive recovery? The banks, some say, have “recovered.” Yet they remain dependent on Washington, they do not make the loans needed for a general recovery, and …

United Nations - Thirty-eight countries will start observing the Convention on Cluster Munitions this Sunday, Aug. 1, after a rapid entry into force since the treaty was announced two …

I've been trying to wrap my mind around the dispiriting sense of failure that seems to have enveloped the Obama administration on the eve of the November midterms. The …

La Macarena, Colombia - When Colombian military units receive an increase in U.S. aid, they allegedly kill more civilians and frame the deaths as combat kills, according to a …

One of the many effects of poverty in Haiti is that desperate parents regularly give away their children in the hope that the new family will feed and educate …

Boston - Through the blare of screeching feedback from portable translation headsets and microphones, unionized bank workers from Brazil, England, Chile, Germany and Uruguay are encouraging American workers to …

Over the past two months, many Republican pundits and members of Congress have been calling for the end of unemployment benefit extensions for the millions of Americans who can’t …

What is the penalty for bankers who tell $40 billion lies? Somewhere between nothing and a rounding-error on your bonus.