World Politics News

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As world markets absorbed the shock of Dubai's debt crisis, the ruler of the once-booming city-state left town for an important meeting in a desert palace. His hosts: the leaders of neighboring Abu Dhabi whose...

“IAEA’s anti-Iran resolution is political and non-technical”, says Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, preacher of Eid al-Adha prayers in Tehran. Ahmad Khatami, spoke at a Tehran University prayer .He warned world powers that Iran will not be frightened by threats or influenced...

Seven years more is still a lot more both in the number of lives that will be lost and the cost to the US taxpayer. Of course the war supporters will complain about the entitlements that are causing the huge...

Nov. 29, 2009 When President Obama announces the next step in his Afghanistan war policy at West Point this coming Tuesday, the whole world will be watching. His decision will discussed and dissected from every angle possible, and one can...

Political Commentary: Let’s just say for argument’s sake, that John Edwards or Hillary Clinton had gone on to win the Democratic nomination for President of the US and that Condoleeza Rice had garnered the Republican nomination. I would beg to...

Kalpen Modi, associate director of the White House Office Office of Public Engagement, arrives for a state dinner in honor of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Manmohan Singh at the White House in Washington, November 24, 2009. As an actor,...

Let's talk about the purpose of government. Folks on this site pretty much run the gamut from those who feel the government should do everything to those who wish the government were small enough to drown in a bathtub. But...