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African Union celebrates 50th year
African nations this week mark the 50th year since the founding of a continentwide organization that spearheaded efforts to liberate Africa from ...
Luxembourg PM downplays swift tax evasion deal
Luxembourg's Prime Minister says he doesn't expect an agreement on one of the European Union's key policies against tax evasion to emerge at next ...
EU to shift bill for bank failures to creditors
European Union governments want to shift the cost of rescuing troubled banks from taxpayers to the banks' creditors — including the holders of large ...
G7 says Japan playing by currency rules
Finance leaders from the Group of Seven leading industrial economies say Japan's stimulus policies are directed at boosting its economy out of a ...
Northern Ireland reserves jail space for G-8 riots
Northern Ireland security chiefs say arrested troublemakers at the G-8 summit next month may be housed in a prison wing and in an abandoned British ...
NKorea calls US-SKorea summit prelude to war
Ahead of a nuclear-powered U.S. carrier's visit to South Korea, North Korea on Friday called this week's summit between the U.S. and South Korean ...
G4S to help provide security at G-8 conference
G4S, the security company that had a high-profile failure at the London Olympics, says it has been hired to support police at the G-8 summit in ...
NKorea issues warning ahead of US-SKorea summit
North Korea on Tuesday threatened the United States and South Korea over joint naval drills taking place this week in tense Yellow Sea waters ahead ...
Queen Elizabeth II to miss Commonwealth meeting
The 87-year-old Queen Elizabeth II will skip the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka this fall — the first time she's missed the ...
Sea disputes, NKorea in spotlight at ASEAN summit
Worried that long-seething rifts could escalate over the South China Sea, Southeast Asian leaders are expected this week to press China to agree to ...
World finance leaders issue sober assessment
World finance leaders issued a somber assessment on Saturday of the global economy, saying the recovery remains uneven with growth and jobs in short ...
Asia stocks up as investors look to G-20 summit
Asian stock markets posted modest gains Friday, ignoring a raft of disappointing U.S. corporate earnings as officials from the world's biggest ...
N. Ireland police to deploy drones during G-8
A Northern Ireland police commander says 8,000 officers and three surveillance drones will protect visiting dignitaries and monitor protests during ...
G-8 foreign ministers slam NKorea rhetoric
Foreign ministers from the G-8 nations on Thursday condemned North Korea's aggressive rhetoric and the development of its nuclear missile programs, ...
C. African Republic leader OKs faster elections
Central African Republic's self-declared president will hold elections within 18 months despite initially saying that he would rule until 2016, a ...
C. African Republic: March in favor of new leader
A demonstration in support of Central African Republic's new leader Michel Djotodia was held in the capital, Bangui, on Saturday. Several hundred ...
Russia criticizes Arab League move on Syria
Russia on Thursday harshly criticized the Arab League's recognition of the Syrian opposition as the only representative of the country, saying it ...
BRICS plan development bank to fund infrastructure
Leaders of five of the world's emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure ...
Syria's Assad appeals to African summit for help
Syria's increasingly isolated president sent a letter calling for help from leaders of five nations at an economic meeting Wednesday in South Africa ...
Syrian opposition takes Syria's Arab summit seat
Syria's opposition took over the country's seat for the first time at an Arab summit Tuesday in a diplomatic triumph marred by severe divisions in the ...
Syrian opposition takes seat at Arab summit
Syrian opposition representatives took the country's seat for the first time at an Arab League summit that opened in Qatar on Tuesday, a significant ...