Poland's governing centrists won a landmark second term in Sunday's general election, exit polls showed, seeing off a challenge from the conservative opposition. Pollsters TNS OBOP said Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (PO) had obtained 212 seats, up from 208 in the outgoing parliament. Its junior coalition partner, the rural-based Polish People's Party (PSL) scored 27, down from 31. Together, the result gave them a total of 239, mirroring their current majority in the 460-member...
The presidents of both Sudan and South Sudan have said they are committed "not to go back to war". They made the pledge on the first visit by South Sudan President Salva Kiir to the...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan will resolve their disagreements through dialogue, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and southern counterpart Salva Kiir said, but gave no hint of any progress after several meetings on Saturday. Kiir arrived on Saturday in Khartoum on his first visit...
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A key aide to Iran's supreme leader said on Saturday Turkey must radically rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile shield and promoting Muslim secularism in the Arabworld -- or face trouble from its own people and neighbours. In an interview with the semi-official Mehr...
It isn't hard to find the home of Pakistan's most famous killer. At every corner in this maze of tightly packed streets, mere miles from the army's headquarters, taxi drivers and street vendors readily gesture toward the birthplace of Mumtaz Qadri, the police bodyguard who, nine months ago, pumped...
Salvage crews were scrambling to off-load oil from a stranded container ship in New Zealand's pristine Bay of Plenty, as Prime Minister John Key demanded to know why the vessel hit a reef in calm waters. With the official Metservice forecasting deteriorating conditions, including possible gale-force...
Poles will vote in parliamentary elections that will determine whether the country continues on its conciliatory course with Russia and Germany, or whether it returns to a more combative stance with those historic foes. Before Sunday's voting, polls showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist and...
updated 10:07 PM EST, Sat October 8, 2011 Rangel talks to Wall StreetprotestersNew York (CNN) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted some involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which entered its 22nd day Saturday, for targeting the nation's financial sector and "trying to destroy the...
