As the fiscal stalemate over U.S. federal government's budget and borrowing authority lingers, there are positive signs on Monday that U.S. policy makers are mulling over a way out of the logjam.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said he is willing to discuss the government budget with Republicans to end the partial government shutdown.
Cambodian opposition party held a people's congress on Sunday afternoon at the capital's Freedom Park to collect its supporters' thumbprints against the results of the July 28 election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen 's ruling party.
U.S. Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Saturday unanimously approved a bill to pay back about 800,000 furloughed government workers once the current partial government shutdown ends.
U.S. President Barack Obama's refusal to work in a bipartisan way has led to the first partial government shutdown in 17 years, said U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Thursday, who insisted a key part of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, should be delayed for one year.
U.S. President Barack Obama has canceled his plan to attend an APEC summit in Indonesia and a East Asia summit in Brunei next week because of the government shutdown impasse, the White House said late Thursday.
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats urged Republicans on Thursday to reopen the federal government and not to blend shutdown with debt ceiling.
Pakistan's top security adviser Thursday defended the government's policy to initiate dialogue with the Taliban for peace.
A White House meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders on Wednesday afternoon ended with finger pointing but little sign of progress toward ending the government shutdown.
A White House meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders on Wednesday afternoon ended with finger pointing but little sign of progress toward ending the government shutdown.
U.S. stocks rebounded Tuesday from Monday' s selloff, seemingly to be unmoved by what is the first partial U.S. government shutdown in 17 years.
The president of pro-India Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and leader of main opposition Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday said Indian-controlled Kashmir was a colony of India.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday urged the Senate to take action in a timely manner and pass a stopgap government funding bill in order to avert the first partial government shutdown since 1996.
The final budget outcome for the 2012-13 financial year was a deficit of 18.8 billion AU dollars ( 17.5 billion U.S. dollars), Australian federal government data released on Friday shows.
The New Zealand government was accused Thursday of double standards in its efforts to stamp out international tax avoidance after an opposition party revealed the government's own superannuation fund was using tax havens.
Hong Kong's overall consumer prices rose 4.5 percent in August over a year earlier, narrowing from an increase of 6.9 percent in July, the Census and Statistics Department announced Monday.
At least 160 people have been killed by unknown gunmen in villages located in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara State in the last three months, the local authorities said on Monday.
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