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The General Secretariat of the Organisation of American States (OAS) has accepted an invitation from the Government of the Republic of Colombia, to deploy an Electoral Oversight Mission (EOM) to monitor the presidential elections to be held on May 25,...

SIMFEROPOL, (AP):Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles yesterday took control of a village near the border with Crimea on the eve of a referendum on whether the region should seek annexation by Moscow, Ukrainian officials...

United States officials say the Pentagon is sending 25,000 cases of military prepackaged meals to Ukraine, in response to a wide-ranging request from Ukraine for some rifles, ammunition, medicine ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP):MALAYSIAN AUTHORITIES expanded their search for the...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): IRAN'S PRESIDENT Hassan Rouhani held talks with the leader of the nearby sultanate of Oman on Wednesday, his first official trip to an Arab country since taking office last year...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP): CRIMEA'S PARLIAMENT said Tuesday that if the public votes to become part of Russia, the peninsula will declare itself independent...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP):THE MALAYSIAN military has radar data showing the missing Boeing 777 jetliner changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait, hundreds of kilometres from the last position recorded by civilian authorities...

Jonti Roos spoke about her flight on a TV program, which aired multiple still photographs from Roos that showed the women inside the cockpit and the pilots apparently working the plane's controls.

NEW YORK (AP): Aretha Franklin has much R-E-S-P-E-C-T for President Barack Obama - regardless of his spelling skills.

Search crews from Vietnam, Malaysia, China, and Singapore have joined in combing the seas for clues.

WASHINGTON (AP):The data breach at Target Corp that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer-notification laws and renewed a push for a single national standard.Most states have laws that require...

NEW YORK (AP):The current bull run is not the longest, or strongest in history, but it has survived a near default by the United States (US) government, a debt crisis in Europe, and a war in Syria.Despite all the obstacles thrown in its way, this bull...