Politics
German Chancellor, Greek PM agree to stay in touch to reach debt deal
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in a phone conversation on Sunday to maintain contact during talks ...Kazakhstan goes to polls as president expected to win
Voters in Kazakhstan turned out in abundance at polling stations Sunday for a presidential election guaranteed to overwhelmingly reconfirm the incumbent, who ...Australians get 72-hour notice of execution in Indonesia
Indonesia said Saturday it has officially notified eight foreign drug convicts that they will be executed, but a Frenchman was granted a ...Powerful former Syrian general dies in Damascus hospital
Rostom Ghazali, the Syrian general once considered the most powerful man in Lebanon and a key suspect in the assassination of former ...Armenia marks 100-year anniversary of Ottoman massacre
The leaders of France and Russia on Friday joined ceremonies marking the centenary of the massacre of some 1.5 million Armenians by ...Former Polish foreign minister Bartoszewski dies at 93
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, a former Auschwitz prisoner and member of Poland\'s underground World War II resistance who helped save Jews and later served ...Greek PM meets Merkel, urges speeded up reform-for-cash deal
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called for a speeding up of work to conclude a reform-for-cash deal with euro zone creditors to ...Gradual Injustice
Chris Woods\' excellent new book is calledHong Kong unveils Beijing-backed election reform plan
The Hong Kong government gave lawmakers their first look on Wednesday at a long-awaited electoral blueprint for selecting the city\'s next leader, ...Egypt sentences ousted President Mohammed Mursi to 20 years in prison
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mursi was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday, nearly three years after he was ...