While President Obama has chosen a deliberately measured response to the contested Iranian election, European leaders have been far less restrained in their comments. On June 16, four days after the presidential election, French President Nicolas...

Democrats in Congress are taking a page from the drug war playbook to see if they could apply it to new financial regulation. The drug war model was suggested by Harvard professor Dan Carpenter, University of Iowa law professor Katherine Porter and...

It was the last image the Mexican government wanted from one of its sunny seaside resorts. In the heart of Acapulco, soldiers fought a blazing battle against drug cartel thugs who sprayed bullets from Kalashnikov rifles and hurled more than 50 grenades....

If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is worried about losing his job on Friday he is not showing it. Support may be growing for the moderate Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main rival for the Iranian presidency, but the hardliner is sticking to his guns. On the eve of what...

Senior U.S. and Chinese officials began three days of talks here Monday in hopes of making a breakthrough on climate change, but they remain far apart on the basic issue of who is to blame for carbon emissions and should shoulder the biggest burden for...

Sensitive technology, including parts that can be used in the development of nuclear weapons, guided missiles and IEDs, can be easily purchased in the US and illegally exported to countries known as shipping hubs for terrorist organizations. That was...

A message attributed to the deputy leader of al-Qaeda has denounced Barack Obama as a “criminal” on the eve of the US president’s Middle East trip. Ayman al-Zawahiri said Mr Obama’s “bloody messages” would not be...

The fall in migrant remittances to Latin America caused by the global financial crisis is posing a threat to middle and lower-income households, especially in countries where cash transfers represent a large proportion of GDP. For some families,...

The news on Thursday that Microsoft was launching a search engine heralded a wave of questions: was www.bing.com finally going to challenge Google’s dominance? Is a new type of search really needed? And can Microsoft really hope to catch up with the...

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) are celebrating their 45th anniversary, making them the oldest insurgent force in the world - and, despite recent setbacks, still one of the strongest. “The Farc are at their worst point in 45...