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Susan Rice folds US secretary of state bid Susan Rice asked President Barack Obama not to pick her as his next secretary of state Thursday, after becoming a lightning rod for Republicans over the raid on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

15 December 2012

Honduras fears new crisis over Supreme Court row The Honduran Congress fired four Supreme Court justices on Wednesday, raising fears of a new political crisis three years after a coup.

13 December 2012

World leaders face big challenges in 2013 Barack Obama is back and China has a new leader in Xi Jinping, but world leaders face heavyweight issues in the coming year, from lingering economic crises to bloody tumult in the Middle East.

13 December 2012

US report faults Pakistan over Afghan war Despite an easing of tensions with the United States, Pakistan is persistently undermining security in Afghanistan by permitting safe havens for insurgents.

12 December 2012

Clinton cancels Morocco trip due to illness US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has canceled a planned trip to Morocco due to a stomach virus, her office said Monday.

12 December 2012

Peru labor minister quits for mistreating airport worker Peru's labor minister resigned Sunday amid an uproar for allegedly roughing up an airport worker as he rushed to catch a departing plane.

11 December 2012

Ghana opposition claims fraud in tight presidential vote Ghana's main opposition party on Sunday alleged fraud in the country's tight presidential election, claiming it had evidence that its candidate had won the vote even before official results were declared.

11 December 2012

Italy faces vote as Monti leaves, Berlusconi returns Italy was preparing prepared for early elections Sunday after Prime Minister Mario Monti said he would soon resign and Silvio Berlusconi announced he would run for the top job for the sixth time in two decades.

10 December 2012

Romanian millionaire hopes for upset in Sunday polls He's under investigation for fraud and on trial for blackmail, but populist millionaire Dan Diaconescu drives a white Rolls Royce and promises to be a reforming figure whose goal is to "uproot the newly rich who have plundered Romania".

07 December 2012

Software mogul slams S. Korean presidential politics South Korean software mogul Ahn Cheol-Soo formally ended his popular independent presidential campaign Monday with a withering criticism of the country's entrenched left-right political divide.

05 December 2012

Kazakhstan is not ready for presidential-parliamentary rule: Vice-Provost of Nazarbayev University Vice-Provost of Nazarbayev University expressed his view on the current Kazakhstan's political system.

02 December 2012

Kazakhstan cuts political state positions 8-fold The number of political state workers will be cut 8-fold in Kazakhstan.

29 November 2012

Euro crisis cements Merkel support for election duel Germany swings into election countdown next week when Chancellor Angela Merkel and her chief challenger rally their party faithful for a campaign likely shaped by how hard the euro crisis hits German wallets.

28 November 2012

Morsi urges dialogue as tensions over new powers rise Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said on Sunday the sweeping new powers he has assumed are only temporary and called for dialogue, as clashes in the Nile Delta saw a member of his party killed.

26 November 2012

Could Spain survive loss of Catalonia? Catalonia's leader Artur Mas says the powerful region's economy can stand tall in Europe without Spain. But could Spain survive without Catalonia?

26 November 2012

Japan's secret economic weapon: women In next month's general election, politicians -- nearly all of them men -- will make promises on what they will do to fix Japan's economic morass.

24 November 2012

Fury over S. Korea presidential hopeful satire South Korea's ruling party has threatened to sue an artist who painted its presidential candidate giving birth to her father, former dictator Park Chung-Hee, likening the work to Nazi propaganda.

21 November 2012

Battle to lead French opposition collapses into confusion The battle to succeed former president Nicolas Sarkozy at the helm of France's main opposition party, the UMP, was left undecided early Monday after both candidates claimed victory amid allegations of ballot rigging.

20 November 2012

Messy battle expected in Japan vote next month: media Japan's election next month will be a messy battle, media said Saturday, with more than a dozen parties fielding candidates and some of them trying to forge a "third pole" between the two largest camps.

18 November 2012

Tymoshenko ends hunger strike: doctors Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko agreed to end her hunger strike, her doctors said, more than two weeks after she began her protest over alleged fraud in polls won by the country's ruling party.

17 November 2012

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