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FIFA clears Kosovo to play international matches
FIFA gave a huge boost to Kosovo's push for international recognition by clearing its 208 member countries on Tuesday to begin playing friendlies ...
Russian lawmakers slap big sanctions on protesters
President Vladimir Putin targeted those who dare oppose him Tuesday, introducing draconian new fines for protesters and handing out Kremlin jobs to ...
Mafia-style end for Australia's flawed Obama mugs
Australian officials wanted to get rid of some commemorative mugs that misspelled President Barack Obama's name. And boy, did they ever. A Parliament ...
Algeria opposition front to boycott parliament
A new Algerian opposition front of 14 small political parties has announced it will boycott the new parliament, calling its election fraudulent.
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. The voting that ...
Quebec passes law in effort to end daily protests
Quebec's provincial government passed an emergency law Friday restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities as the government seeks to end ...
Greece to dissolve Parliament for new election
Greece's day-old Parliament held its last session Friday to allow for new elections next month that are being cast as a decision on whether to keep ...
Spanish government OKs freedom of information law
Spain's government gave the green light Friday to a new freedom of information law aimed at giving taxpayers a better look at how their money is ...
Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban
President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are ...
Cuban president's daughter gets US visa
Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, sparking a firestorm of criticism ...
Emergency law considered in Quebec student protest
Facing the most sustained student protest in Canadian history, Quebec's provincial government weighed emergency legislation Thursday aimed at ending ...
Fitch downgrades Greece, cites euro exit risk
Fitch ratings agency downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk territory on Thursday, warning of a "probable" Greek exit from the euro currency ...
Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European ...
Caretaker Greek Cabinet, legislators sworn in
Greece on Thursday swore in 300 legislators for just one day before it dissolves Parliament and calls new elections, among them 21 lawmakers from ...
Police move against new protest in Moscow
Russian police arrested about 20 protesters on Wednesday night at a central Moscow square where demonstrators had moved after police uprooted them ...
Jewish group suggests ban on far-right Greek party
A major European Jewish organization is urging European governments to quickly adopt measures to tackle anti-Semitism and far-right extremism, ...
Venezuelan foreign minister stands in for Chavez
After nearly a year of cancer treatment that has forced President Hugo Chavez to step back from the spotlight, a burly former bus driver with a dark ...
Monti faces renewed pressure to speed reforms
For the Italian entrepreneur whose business and marriage were falling apart, a tax bill was the last straw. Armed with a shotgun and two revolvers, ...
Developments in British phone-hacking scandal
Developments in a phone-hacking scandal involving British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.: November 2005: News of the World royal ...
Egypt presidential candidate blasts Islamist MP
A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in ...