World Jan 18 Chile Elects First Right-Wing President in 52 Years Chileans voted Sunday for billionaire Sebastian Pinera to become the first right-wing elected president since 1958.
World Jan 18 Ukraine Election Moves to Runoff Without Incumbent Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, who gained power during the Orange Revolution in 2004, is out of the running in a run-off election now scheduled for Feb. 7.
World Jan 17 In Haiti’s Grim Landscape, Stories of Survival and Frustration Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still waiting desperately for aid Sunday, while rescue workers continued to pull people from collapsed buildings five days after an earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince. World leaders vowed to help the impoverished nation rebuild.
World Jan 16 ‘Race Against Time’ to Distribute Haitian Relief As supplies continued to stack up at Haiti's airport Saturday, aid workers and officials pushed to get the much-needed provisions to the masses of earthquake survivors in and around the capital Port-au-Prince.
World Jan 15 In Ukraine, 18 Candidates Vie for Top Seat On Sunday, Ukrainians vote in their first presidential election since the Orange Revolution in 2004, when pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko eventually bested Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovych in a re-vote.
World Jan 15 Haiti’s Crushing Quake Haiti's earthquake was "a catastrophe of monumental proportions," said Nick Birnback, spokesman for the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The Caribbean nation was still mending from a series of major storms in 2008 and deep-seated political problems when the quake…
World Jan 13 Thousands Feared Dead as World Rushes to Respond to Haiti Disaster The damage and casualties caused by a major earthquake that hit Haiti Tuesday continued to unfold a day later, and thousands were feared dead or trapped in the rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's president said.
World Jan 12 Iranian Professor Who Backed Mousavi Dies in Bomb Blast An Iranian nuclear physics professor was killed Tuesday when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle outside of his home in northern Tehran exploded. He reportedly backed opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Iran's June presidential elections.
Politics Jan 11 Quick Take: Obama’s Foreign Policy One Year In As the year mark into Barack Obama's presidency approaches, several analysts offer their takes on where American foreign policy stands.
World Jan 07 Al-Qaida Says CIA Killings Payback for Pakistan Drone Strikes Al-Qaida claimed responsibility on Thursday for last month's attack on a base in Khost, Afghanistan, that killed seven CIA agents. According to Islamist Web sites, the attack was "revenge" for U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan.