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Obama acts on scandals; Republicans unsatisfied
President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred ...
EPA nominee advances without GOP support
President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has moved one step closer to getting the job, but it came without Republican ...
Bulgaria's center-right party wants vote canceled
Bulgaria's ex-prime minister says the results of last weekend's parliamentary election should be canceled due to "gross violations" of voting law.
Party's withdrawal threatens Moroccan govt
Morocco's second largest political party has announced it is withdrawing from the Islamist-led government elected during the Arab Spring and leaving ...
Republicans boycott committee vote on EPA nominee
Senate Republicans boycotted Thursday a scheduled committee vote on President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Pakistan's ruling party struggles in election
The campaign posters for the Pakistan People's Party show both why it has been so popular for so long and why it's in trouble ahead of this Saturday's ...
Blasts in Pakistan port city kill 3 ahead of vote
Two blasts in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi killed three people near the office of a political party critical of the Taliban, a police officer ...
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party reinstates leader
A spokesman for Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it has reinstated Arieh Deri as party leader. Deri last held the post in 1999, the year he was ...
Cameroon's ruling party wins Senate election
The party of Cameroon's entrenched ruler Paul Biya won 56 of the 70 contested seats in the nation's first-ever senatorial election, the Supreme Court ...
Iceland returns center-right parties to power
In a dramatic about-face, Icelandic voters have returned to power the center-right parties that led the national economy to collapse five years ago.
4 killed in Pakistan bombings of political parties
Police say four people were killed and dozens were injured in two separate bombings of political targets in the southern city of Karachi. The blasts ...
Bomb kills 9 near Pakistan political party office
A bomb exploded on Friday near the office of a main Pakistan political party that had received threats from the Taliban, killing nine people in the ...
Bomb in Pakistan kills 5 near political office
A bomb exploded outside an election office of one of Pakistan's main political parties Thursday evening, killing five people in the latest attack ...
Italian protest party: people fed up with politics
A day after Italy's president was re-elected to an unprecedented second term, the leader of an anti-establishment movement says citizens' patience ...
House Democrats outraising Republicans in 2013
The campaign arm of House Democrats outraised its Republican rival in first quarter of 2013, taking in more than $22 million. The Democratic ...
Anti-euro party a wildcard in German elections
The leader of a new anti-euro party called Sunday for Germany to leave the common currency, telling an inaugural convention that the euro forces ...
Pakistani Taliban hit political party, killing 1
Pakistani Taliban attacked two leaders of an anti-militant political party on Sunday in northwest Pakistan, killing one and wounding another in the ...
Senate showdown vote on gun curbs set for Thursday
The Senate's top Democrat has set Congress' first showdown vote for Thursday on President Barack Obama's gun control drive as a small but mounting ...
Republicans debate message, battle bad messengers
National Republican leaders made waves recently with a dim view of the party's future if it fails to expand its core support beyond white males and ...
Democrats bring gun control bill to Senate floor
Democrats have brought gun control legislation to the Senate floor amid a threat from conservative Republican senators to use delaying tactics to ...
Ukraine parliament session seized by ruling party
Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday held two competing parliament sessions after pro-government legislators stormed out of the official parliament hall ...
Australian minister quits over party ballot fiasco
Another Australian government minister quit Friday in the fallout from a bungled leadership ballot that reinforced perceptions of a crisis in Prime ...