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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's ruling party is likely to win a majority in a parliamentary election on Wednesday that the West says will be a test of President Mikheil Saakashvili's democratic credentials as he pushes for NATO membership.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - There is a growing danger of a coup by military hardliners in Zimbabwe to prevent opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from toppling President Robert Mugabe, a leading think tank said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials said on Tuesday they aim to address economic roadblocks in the Palestinian territories -- including actual Israeli roadblocks and security risks -- at an investment conference in Bethlehem this week.
GAZA (Reuters) - Three Israeli air strikes and a raid in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed three Hamas militants and two Palestinian civilians, local medical workers and the Islamist group said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military painted China on Tuesday as posing a growing threat to the United States and others in space and cyberspace.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday questioned whether the United States could have productive talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without first stepping up pressure on Tehran.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An explosion on a minibus shook central Addis Ababa on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding nine, Ethiopian police said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation to help win approval of three free trade deals pending in Congress could qualify millions of U.S. service industry workers, in jobs ranging from low-level data entry clerks to high-paid financial analysts, for government aid if their jobs move overseas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Determined to show him life outside Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will take Britain's foreign secretary to her California hometown this week, the State Department said on Tuesday.
Environmental policy expert Steve Milloy says Republican presidential nominee John McCain's effort to reach out to so-called "green voters" is a futile one.
A national coalition of pastors, Christian leaders, and policymakers has recently launched the "We Get It!" campaign, which deals with the environment, global warming, and poverty.
LONDON (Reuters) - The number of children forced to fight wars around the world has fallen but a hardcore of governments, rebels and armed groups are resisting pressure to stop using underage soldiers, a report said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Rep. Vito Fossella of New York, under pressure from fellow Republicans to step aside after two headline-grabbing scandals, announced on Tuesday he will not seek re-election in November.
Saudi Arabian human rights advocate Ali Alyami says a negative Saudi influence continues to pervade America.
CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Violence has exploded in Mexico's drug smuggling heartland in a three-way battle between rival gangs and security forces, the biggest challenge yet to President Felipe Calderon's war against the cartels.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush will visit Britain, France, Italy and Germany during a trip to Europe June 9-16 and attend the U.S.-European Union summit in Slovenia, the White House said on Tuesday.
There's yet another attempt under way in Congress to grant amnesty to illegal alien guest workers.
KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government will decide when foreign troops will leave the country, the foreign minister said on Tuesday, but added they would be needed until Afghan security forces could stand on their own feet.
A New York pastor will be peddling thousands of miles cross-country this summer to raise funds for a hospital his church has built in West Africa.
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