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21, five days after the previously scheduled date. Parliament cleared the way for the national poll when it passed a crucial election law Sunday night after weeks of political haggling.

It's all so terribly sad. To listen to liberals and the White House spin election results, you'd think all was well with the world.

The president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.

Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said today as they predicted a political price after the majority's victory on health care.

Days after coming to power in September, Japan's new prime minister broached forming a new East Asian trading bloc with rival China - one that would exclude the United States.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under fire from his international partners to clean up his administration, insisted Sunday there's no place for corrupt officials within his government.

Thousands of people in Japan have attended a rally against a US military base on Japan's Okinawa Island.

As Congress begins voting on health care reform, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty urged Republican activists on Saturday to use public anger over the issue as the linchpin of their battle to return to power.

Russia and the United States have a good chance of reaching a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year's end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.

President Barack Obama said Saturday that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood.

A lot of lives have changed since Barack Obama won the presidential election one year ago last Wednesday, none so much as the life of Chicago's Sam Kass, the engaging, shaved-head assistant White House chef and food initiative coordinator, a crusader for healthy eating who has shot to fame in the almost 10 months the Obamas have been in the White ...

President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, next month in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and Washington schools superintendent Michelle Rhee are engaged.

In this Oct. 9, 2005, file photo the caisson carrying the casket of Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski leaves the Cathedral of St.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on President Barack Obama's health care reform initiative and Democratic members of Congress say the controversial bill can likely pass even with total Republican opposition.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington's closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan leadership: Clean up your act - for real this time - or risk a cutoff of support.

MADISON - The state Assembly early in the morning Friday passed a bill that removes a ban on using student test results to evaluate teachers in order to be eligible for nearly $4.5 billion in federal stimulus money.

China denounced as protectionist new US anti-dumping duties on steel pipes and called for Washington's swift recognition that it is a market economy, a week before a visit by US President Barack Obama.

Iraqi lawmakers failed Thursday to agree on an election law for the country's January vote, raising concerns the balloting may be delayed and in turn push back a U.S. troop withdrawal.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday he did not wish to run for re-election in January, voicing disappointment at Washington for "favouring" Israel in arguments over re-launching peace talks.