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A Republican congresswoman Friday froze a request by the Obama administration for $450 million in cash for the Egyptian government, saying it needed new...

High-profile British lawmaker Louise Mensch, who played a leading role in parliamentary hearings over the phone-hacking scandal, announced Monday that she is quitting to...

US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has written to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani claiming that Pakistan is a failed state. Rohrabacher, who had earlier tabled...

British Prime Minister David Cameron received a hero’s welcome from his party’s lawmakers but faced searching questions Saturday over his veto of a new...

You know certain impressions of your country have hit rock-bottom when the elected head of state’s assurances on a matter are brushed away. The...

A Spanish lawmaker has vowed to sue the FBI for using an image of his face to create a digitally enhanced picture of slain...

Iran plans to try in absentia 26 US officials is believes violated human rights, the latest attempt to turn the tables on Western accusations...

Local judicial magistrate Khalid Saeed Watto declared Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) National Assembly Member (MNA) (NA-118 Shahdara) Malik Riaz and Muhammad Fayyaz “court absconders”...

US Representative Anthony Weiner has quit Congress, apologizing for the scandal over his lewd online exchanges with women that led to a political uproar. Before...

The US believes at least a dozen senior leaders of Al Qaeda are in Pakistan, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said on Monday....

JAKARTA - An Indonesian lawmaker faces an ethics investigation after he was photographed apparently watching porn on his tablet computer in parliament, an official said Sunday.
Arifinto, who represents the conservative Islamic Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), was caught on camera on Friday looking at a pornographic image on the tablet, which he held slightly under his table, during a plenary session.
The photograph, first posted on a local news website, was picked up by other

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Siddiqul Farooq on Sunday rebutted the National Police Foundation's accusation on PML-N Member National Assembly Anjum Aqeel Khan about the alleged fraud of Rs 6 billion, called the accusation baseless and demanded judicial inquiry into the matter.
In a press conference along MNAs Anjum Aqeel Khan, Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and Malik Ibrar, he produced documents in support of his stance and refused the accusations made by National Police

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will lead Americans in national mourning on Wednesday after an Arizona shooting tragedy unleashed a polarizing national debate about the violent rhetoric rocking US politics.
Obama will fly to the southwestern state to lead a tribute service for the six people who were killed and the 14 wounded in the assassination attempt on congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is fighting for her life in a hospital. His trip will take place after the family

LAHORE: The Afghan government has been in reconciliation talks for months with members of a Taliban faction closely tied to the Al Qaeda and responsible for lethal attacks on coalition forces and bombings inside Kabul, according to a member of the Afghan parliament, a foreign news agency reported.
The parliamentarian, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, said President Hamid Karzai's government had been in direct contact with Jalaludin Haqqani, the