15 October 2013 Last updated at 07:01 BSTUS Senate leaders have said they have made "tremendous progress" and are closing in on a deal that would raise the country's debt ceiling. The US needs to raise the borrowing limit so that the nation can pay its bills. Democratic and Republican lawmakers are also at loggerheads over a partial government shutdown, which...
President Barack Obama is hardly the first president forced to play debt-ceiling politics. The debt ceiling is a cap on the amount of total debt the U.S. government can incur to pay the country’s bills. Before the 20th century, there was no ceiling on the total amount of debt. Instead, Congress set...
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has condemned an attack on a convoy of an African Union-UN peacekeeping force in Darfur that resulted in the death of three Senegalese peacekeepers. Ban described Sunday's incident, the second deadly attack in three days, as unacceptable and called on the...
(Source: US Department of State) AMBASSADOR CUNNINGHAM: I apologize for keeping you waiting. It's been a very long and eventful day, and it's not over yet for us, but it's been very successful so far. And Secretary Kerry, I really want to thank you on behalf of all of us here, not just...
The head of the team tasked with destroying Syria's chemical weapons says he is concerned about accessing some sites in rebel-controlled areas. Ahmet Uzumcu, of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, renewed calls for both sides in the conflict to support his mission. He told...
The United States is still facing a potentially devastating sovereign debt default, after senators failed to agree on terms to reopen the federal government and raise the country's borrowing limit. Republicans and Democrats -- at war over the country's finances and ideological direction for more...
NEW DELHI: A stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers crossing a bridge to a temple in central India left at least 109 people dead Sunday, police said. “The latest information we have from the ground is that 109 people killed and 133 were injured,” AnandMishra, an officer in the Datia police...
More than 380 people have been arrested after Russian nationalists rampaged for hours in Moscow over the murder of a local man blamed on a migrant. Crowds on Sunday chanted slogans, including "Russia for Russians" and "white power" in the protest in Biryulyovo, an industrial district of...
Seven Red Cross workers have been kidnapped in northern Syria after their convoy was ambushed by armed militants. The team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had been visiting the area from...
