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Does it really matter who is in charge in Washington, Republicans or Democrats? In some ways it does. It's clear that having George W. Bush in the White House in 2003 made it far more likely that we would go...

When President Obama tells the nation his revised policy on Afghanistan, he will surely indicate that America's mission in that country is not open-ended in duration, that we will leave when our objectives have been accomplished, and that the objectives...

In a display of just how corrupt the federal government has become, Senator Mary Landrieu literally sold her vote to bring the health care reform to debate in the United States Senate for a newly added amendment that will bring...

President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated. Mubarak did not mention Algeria by name in his previously scheduled address to parliament,...

“I have such a hard time figuring out who is what and what is who. And why is who a what or why is what a who.” Abbot and Costello would have loved House Speaker Prospero Nograles’ text message to...

The Congress is trying to revoke the life ban on former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin. A Congress MP from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, Azharuddin is serving a life ban from the BCCI for his involvement in the match-fixing scandal that...

Enough is enough! Are we wearing bangles? A group of 20-25 Shiv Sena activists attacked journalists and damaged property at the offices of IBN7 and IBN Lokmat, the Hindi and Marathi news channels of the IBN Network, in north-east Mumbai’s...

Time for truth about torture After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vital One man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin...

The sources said the US is also likely to disclose the name of a senior Pakistani official who was involved in 26/11 attacks besides David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana. However, the sources did not disclose the name but...

The archbishop of Canterbury held his first talks Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Roman Catholic church's unprecedented invitation to disaffected Anglicans, with the Vatican saying the two sides still want to press ahead for closer relations.