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President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "time horizon" for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq as part of a long-term security accord they are trying to negotiate by the end of the month, White House officials said yesterday.

Sen. Barack obama will make his international debut as a Democratic presidential candidate in the coming days with a weeklong tour of the Middle East and Europe designed to deepen his foreign policy credentials, confront questions at home about his readiness to be commander in chief, and signal the...

The television set in Marisa Orozco's Falls Church living room is almost always tuned to Spanish-language stations. For her parents, who don't speak English, the telenovelas -- soap operas -- and newscasts are a strong connection to their former lives in colombia. The shows, received through the old...

Someplace else, people might tell you that human life is priceless. In Washington, the federal government has appraised it like a '96 Camaro with bad brakes.

Former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm resigned Friday from his role as GOP presidential candidate John mccain's campaign co-chairman, hoping to quiet the uproar that followed his comments that the United States had become a "nation of whiners" whose constant complaints about the U.S. economy show they are in a "mental recession."

It was not so long ago that the idea that Senator John mccain would even entertain tapping Mitt Romney, his bitterest primary rival, as his running mate would have seemed preposterous.

Sen. Barack obama arrived Saturday in afghanistan on the first stop of his tour of the Middle East and Europe, aimed at boosting the U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful's foreign policy credentials, his campaign confirmed.

The MDC, which has made no secret of its dissatisfaction with South African President Thabo Mbeki, wants the African Union to appoint someone to strengthen Mbeki's crisis mediation

Midlands Chairman Peter Muchengeti of the National Association of Non-Governmental Organizations had recently brought a court action against the police for shutting down NGOs in the province

US State Department spokesman says talks would be important in that in wake of North Korean declaration, ministers will begin to chart final phase of process yielding nuclear-free Korean peninsula