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MOSCOW — The lower house of Russia's parliament on Friday approved in the first reading a controversial measure against the spread among minors of “propaganda” seen as supporting homosexuality. But the lawmakers put off until the...

Pakistan India law : Pakistani Parliamentarians visit India during week of legislative meltdown....

Locked in a political standoff over a crucial budget bill, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is under mounting pressure to hasten elections -- a step likely to push his party out of power. The bill, which would allow the Japanese government to borrow more...

Russia’s ruling party appeared to have lost significant support among voters and was at risk of seeing its majority in the lower house of parliament evaporate, according to exit polls and initial ballot counts in elections held Sunday....

Egyptians voted Tuesday in the third round of parliamentary elections that so far suggest Islamist parties will become the dominate political voices as the country. Meanwhile, prosecutors made arguments against Hosni Mubarak, 83, who was toppled last year...

Initial figures show that Islamists are set to make up a majority on the panel that will determine the country's new constitution, the official state news agency MENA reported late Saturday....

Vladimir Putin, poised to serve as Kremlin leader longer than anyone since dictator Josef Stalin, called Wednesday for a two-term limit for the Russian presidency that would apply to leaders who follow him in office....

Silvio Berlusconi: The Italian Parliament completed approval of austerity measures Saturday as large crowds formed around the government building, bursting into chants in anticipation that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would soon tender his...

It???s obvious that if you want to take advantage of the new Cash for Clunkers law working its way through Congress, your junker vehicle???s trade-in value needs to be less than the minimum $3,500 voucher ($4,500 if the new car......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, celebrating the House's passage of an energy bill that will ultimately cap greenhouse gas emissions and enable power companies and other polluters to trade their rights for emissions to one another, hailed the...

by Mark Silva and Richard Simon The United States House of Representatives marked a moment of silence today for Michael Jackson, the pop music icon who died in Los Angeles at the age of 50. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.)......

by Mark Silva Think of it as the audacity of America. The audacity of 13 colonies to declare independence from the British Empire, the audacity of their descendants to "blaze a westward trail,'' the audacity to build the world's greatest......