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Labor leader Kevin Rudd appeared set for a sweeping victory in elections in Australia on Saturday
Labor leader Kevin Rudd appeared set for a sweeping victory in elections in Australia on Saturday
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Dozens of members of a Russian opposition party and other activists were detained by police Sunday as they tried to gather for a protest rally in central St. Petersburg.
Alberto Gonzales, the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday, driven from office after a wrenching standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence.
OPEC will study the weak U.S. dollar’s effect on the oil cartel’s earnings and investigate the possibility of a currency basket, Iran’s oil minister said Sunday.
Violence is down 55 percent in Iraq since a U.S.-Iraqi security operation began this summer, U.S. officials said Sunday, even as at least 15 Iraqis were reported killed in bombings and shootings.
Benazir Bhutto said she is seeking an alliance with other opposition leaders Thursday to form a caretaker government that could replace President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ahead of January elections.
Ahead of the holiday travel crunch, President Bush ordered steps Thursday to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded.
A report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on Thursday found Iran to be generally truthful about key aspects of its nuclear history, but it warned that its knowledge of Tehran’s present atomic work was shrinking.
Fishermen are packing up and heading home now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has suspended all commercial and sport fishing in areas affected by last week’s San Francisco Bay oil spill.
President Bush welcomed Michael Mukasey back into government Wednesday and promised to help the new attorney general rebuild the top leadership of the beleaguered Justice Department.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won’t approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home.
Federal investigators were considering Monday whether to file criminal charges against the crew members of a container ship that struck the Bay Bridge and ripped a gash in its fuel tank, creating the San Francisco Bay’s worst oil spill in nearly two decades.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said Sunday that Pakistan will stick to its January schedule for parliamentary elections but he set no time limit on emergency rule
Erin Brodie from the Marine Mammal Center chases after an oil-coated bird she was trying to rescue at Rodeo Beach on Thursday in San Francisco.
The major Northern Ireland Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Sunday it was formally renouncing violence, but a commander said the group would not surrender its weapons to international disarmament officials.
Picketers march during a strike by television and film writers.
California sued the federal government Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation’s first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks.
President Bush greeted astronauts back home from a space mission and set about helping Senate Republican John Cornyn rally to raise money for re-election.
Masked gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march in which tens of thousands of Venezuelans denounced President Hugo Chavez’s attempts to expand his power through constitutional changes.
A shot that robs smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes showed promise in midstage testing and may someday offer a radically new way to kick a dangerous habit.