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A fighting president is the best antidote to GOP hyperventilating on ‘scandals’

Pentagon plays down Korean Peninsula tensions after missile tests

Rumors spark bank run, break-ins in Brazil

Thousands of French households taxed over 100%

After recent border standoff, Indian and Chinese premiers pledge 'peace and tranquility'

US and Vietnam: gradually becoming bittersweet partners?

Why a Middle East role is essential for the nuclear nonproliferation regime

Sharif’s election gives US an opening to help stabilize Pakistan

Reflecting on the pursuit of equality and non-discrimination on LGBT Day

India: Watershed unlikely from Pakistan election

The Associated Press, IRS scandals build unlikely bridge over bipartisan divide

Cyprus financial troubles raise hopes for reunification

Kerry-Russia deal to end Syria war a major US achievement

A quick guide to the Japanese economic experiment that is causing the yen to tumble

When information is a crime

Pakistan election: amid the chaos, where does the military stand?

The second war in Syria is a struggle among Assad’s opponents

Doing nothing is Obama’s best option in Syria

UN Human Rights Council may act against LGBT discrimination

Boston Marathon bombings: a Pakistani perspective

Serbia’s anti-corruption campaign must adhere to the rule of law

Berlusconi bounces back

Mexico's president meets his match: teachers

Will Europe keep on fracking?

The Iron Lady is gone, but Thatcherism is alive and well

EU enlargement: the real answer to ethnic tensions in the Balkans

German TV mini-series paints false picture of Nazi madness

An election in paradise may herald a new Pacific nation

Musing about policies toward China, North Korea, Israel and Cuba

With North Korean threats, is South Korea safe for investment?

Who pays for North Korea's mind games?

The Iron Lady's ilk: Powerful women of the last century

Obama wants to nearly double cigarette tax

Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, offers US embarrassment and dilemma

US military servicemen off the hook in South Korea

Israel, Gaza exchange heaviest strikes since cease-fire

IMF delegates in Cairo for talks on vital $4.8 billion loan

Berlusconi’s new prominence casts shadows over Italy’s future

UN investigates possible North Korean crimes against humanity after years of labor camp torture

Will Algeria's army be the dark horse in the next election?

There is little the US can do to prevent Israel’s policies from being its undoing

Is Qatar abandoning Egypt?

Fleeing Syria: Insights on Lebanon’s open border

Presidential deceptions on Iraq led US to abandon core values

Policy on North Korea needs to give a higher priority to human rights abuses

Questions for Obama: Is Israel bluffing? Is Iran bluffing?

8 questions for Charles Kernaghan: What are the world's most dangerous jobs?

How the shiny “agate” stones in jewelry and rosary beads are killing workers

Reducing US debt by reducing government duplication

10 years on, Iraq ignores promised reforms in human rights

Obama in Israel: Let the fence mending begin

How to tell if Cyprus is a problem for the European banking system

For South Korea’s first female president, a baptism by fire

Syrian civil war enters third year of conflict (PHOTOS)

Why the US could face another brush with default

What was Biden signaling in his pro-war comments on Iran to Israeli lobby?

The Falkland defectors

North Korea: Kim Jong Un targeted in assassination attempt, South Korean intelligence says

China bowing to public outcry over environment

Palestinians hold low expectations for Obama visit

8 questions for Kevin Sabet: Should the US end the drug war?

South Korean stocks whacked as war threat looms

Are aid donors repeating mistakes in Myanmar?

Q&A: Can a transatlantic trade deal help save the global economy?

In the shadow of El Comandante

For a Korean peace, are sports stars our only hope?

With Iran posed to be a regional player, US should find ways to repair relations

In Lebanon, a proxy battle for Syria

Mexico: Hope grows for the missing

See castration: Bills go unpaid — America gets spayed

The new business of Lebanon: kidnapping

Brits may have to work until 75, thanks to China

Why Britain’s arrest of Nepali army colonel should serve as lesson for South Asia

How the Sinaloa cartel won Mexico’s drug war

11 States that will get slammed hardest by the sequester

Elizabeth Warren grills Bernanke on bank subsidies

Who won the drug war? Drugs did

Hookahs, hash and the Muslim Brotherhood

Sequester cuts: White House breaks down effects

Mexico drug war disappearances laid bare

South Korea calls for development of nuclear weapons

In North Korea and Middle East, US should rework failed policies

New leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, same security forces

For Venezuela, the great mystery starring Chavez

Afghanistan's post-NATO era takes shape

Is Berlusconi getting a poll bounce from tax evaders?

Expect a far more dovish India central bank

Ecuador: Correa wins re-election, here's how

Russia: Don't compete through currency devaluations

Why this week's Bank of Japan meeting matters