U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday announced as part of the department's plans to remove gender-based barriers to service, the Pentagon is to rescind a 1994 rule that prohibits women from assignment to direct ground combat positions.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting 2013 opened here on Tuesday evening under the theme "resilient dynamism."
The global economy is poised for a gradual upturn in 2013 as the constraints on growth gradually ease, but policy complacency should be guarded against as risks remain, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its updated World Economic Outlook (WEO) on Wednesday.
A Syrian opposition group at home has warned of a Kurdish-Arab civil war due to the raging battles between Syrian Kurds and armed rebels in northern Syria, at a time when the Human Rights Watch blamed the rebels of infringing upon minorities' properties.
The Israeli political framework after Tuesday's elections shows Israelis have forsaken the traditional right/left parties and pinned their hope in smaller- scale center parties, led by the surprise of the elections, Yesh Atid.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in a Shiite mosque in a city in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 75 others, a local police source told Xinhua.
U.S. President Barack Obama is likely to hit the road again, not far away from his re-election bid, to begin hosting campaign-style events in seek of support for his second-term agenda, said the White House on Wednesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday in a congressional hearing took responsibility for the security failure in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But she defended fiercely for the handling by the Obama administration on the attack's aftermath.
The Malian army, supported by its French allies, entered the town of Douentza early on Monday morning, a military source told Xinhua on the same day.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday called for an innovative action to deal with the numerous challenges facing the world and to meet shared goals such as sustainable development, disarmament and conflict resolution.
The White House on Tuesday said they welcomed the House Republicans' proposal of a short-term extension of debt limit and the President would sign the bill if it could reach his desk.
At least five more people were gunned down in separate incidents of violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 38 in such attacks during the week from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, local media and police said.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday took oath for his second term in a public inauguration ceremony at the Capitol grounds, reaffirming America's founding principles in a call for unity and a vow for more engagement in foreign affairs.
Taliban militants targeted the headquarters of Kabul Traffic Police on Monday morning, killing at least one police and injuring 16 others and thus causing panic among the war-weary residents.
Syrians are closely watching consumer prices after the government decided to raise diesel prices, a move that could potentially have an impact on more than 300 consumer items.
The horrible hostage crisis at a remote Algerian gas field facility, which drew international attention over the past week, seems to have reached a breakoff after the Interior Ministry announced Saturday the death toll from both the attackers and the hostages. However, a deeper look leaves several questions unanswered.
Leading the charge for tougher gun laws after last month's massacre that killed 20 small children, U.S. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said Sunday that a bill for universal background checks is just around the corner
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