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Belize and Guatemala have signed an agreement aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between each other as they seek to end a border dispute going back several decades.

Ukraine's embattled president yesterday offered to make a top opposition leader the prime minister, but it was unclear if the overture would mollify the radical faction of protesters who have clashed with police for much of the last week.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP):In the absence of federal regulation, states from Rhode Island to Hawaii are considering laws to require labels on food items containing genetically modified ingredients.Currently, only Connecticut and Maine have laws...

WASHINGTON (AP): Nice guy, so-so president.Taking stock of President Barack Obama at the five-year mark in his term, less than a third of Americans consider him to be an above-average chief executive. Nearly twice as many find him likable.

PEACE TALKS to carve a path out of Syria's civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad's future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun....

A new video of embattled Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, emerged yesterday showing him swearing and slurring his words while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent.

PHILADELPHIA (AP):THOUSANDS OF flights were cancelled, students got an extra day off from school or were being sent home early, and the federal government closed its offices in the Washington area Tuesday as another winter storm bore down on the...

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP):Governor Chris Christie was sworn into office Tuesday for a second term, saying he had a mandate to stay the course even as Democrats ramp up criticism of the Republican governor amid investigations of a bridge scandal that has...

BEIRUT (AP):SYRIA'S CONFLICT was sparked by an act of brutality - the detention and torture of schoolchildren who spray-painted anti-government graffiti in a southern city.

WASHINGTON (AP):LEADERS OF the congressional intelligence committees are pushing back against a key part of President Barack Obama's attempt to overhaul United States (US) surveillance, saying it is unworkable for the Government to let someone else...

WITH STAKES high and expectations low, Syria's government and its opponents are supposed to sit down face-to-face this week for the first time - muscled to an international peace conference by foreign powers that fear the bloodiest of the Arab Spring...

Syria's Western-backed opposition has threatened to pull out of forthcoming peace talks in Switzerland, after the UN invited Iran to take part.