The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops.
Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.
China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the U.S. in reaction to last week's announcement that the U.S. is selling weapons to Taiwan, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.
A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Monday tried to draw a parallel between Sen. John McCain's involvement in the nearly 2-decade-old "Keating Five" scandal and the current economic crisis.
The Treasury Department on Monday sought to answer the first of many questions surrounding how it will implement the $700 billion financial rescue plan.
China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned $6.5 billion package of U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press on Monday
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that "some forces in Tbilisi" are trying to provoke new violence in Georgia.
A continent best known for its symptoms of morbid decline is doing remarkably well by measure of economic growth and good governance
Whether or not you agree with spending $700 billion on the bailout, plus another $150 billion on what looks like pork-barrel goodies, one thing's for sure: That's $850 billion we won't have to spend on those long lists of promises being made by the presidential candidates.
The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops.
Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.
China has canceled or postponed several military exchanges with the U.S. in reaction to last week's announcement that the U.S. is selling weapons to Taiwan, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.
A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign Monday tried to draw a parallel between Sen. John McCain's involvement in the nearly 2-decade-old "Keating Five" scandal and the current economic crisis.
The Treasury Department on Monday sought to answer the first of many questions surrounding how it will implement the $700 billion financial rescue plan.
China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned $6.5 billion package of U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press on Monday
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday that "some forces in Tbilisi" are trying to provoke new violence in Georgia.
A continent best known for its symptoms of morbid decline is doing remarkably well by measure of economic growth and good governance
Whether or not you agree with spending $700 billion on the bailout, plus another $150 billion on what looks like pork-barrel goodies, one thing's for sure: That's $850 billion we won't have to spend on those long lists of promises being made by the presidential candidates.
Turkey's military launched airstrikes Monday on Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, according to the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers' Party.
Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday charged that Sen. John McCain's campaign is launching "Swift boat-style attacks" on him instead of addressing the country's problems.
A suicide bomber detonated at the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 30 others, a police spokesman said.
For all the rhetoric about a common front, Germany leads a new run of unilateral action to save institutions and reassure depositors
At 51 years of age, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has come a long way. As part of the Kashubian minority living in the Gdansk Region, he was born to working-class parents -- his father a carpenter and his mother a nurse.
In April 2007, UEFA's executive committee voted to accept a joint proposal from Poland and Ukraine to host the European football Championships in 2012.
China opened the 29th Olympic Games on Friday with stunning fireworks as the Asian nation kicked off one of the most heavily scrutinized games in history.
Rockets landed near a family home of a top politician in Pakistan's northwest, while elsewhere in the volatile region Taliban anger over a suspected U.S. missile strike indicated a top militant may have been killed, officials said.
The Turkish military bombed PKK rebel targets Saturday in northern Iraq in response to clashes that left at least 15 Turkish troops dead, the PKK and the military said Sunday.
Germany on Sunday guaranteed all private bank accounts and negotiated a 50 billion euro ($69 billion) bailout deal for Hypo Real Estate AG as Europe's second-largest economy sought to ward off financial crisis.
Russian troops on Sunday began dismantling positions in the so-called security zones inside Georgia that they have occupied since August's war
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday slammed Sen. Barack Obama's political relationship with a former anti-war radical, accusing him of associating "with terrorists who targeted their own country."
Barack Obama's campaign has quickly rejected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that he associated "with terrorists who targeted our own country."
Eleven people from an Iraqi family, including women and children, were killed Sunday during a raid involving U.S. troops, Iraqi police sources said.
Hong Kong authorities Sunday announced that two recalled candy products made by British confectioner Cadbury had high levels of melamine.
Russian troops began dismantling positions Sunday in the so-called security zones inside Georgia they have occupied since August's brief but intense war, a Georgian Interior Ministry official said.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday that a deal lifting a ban on nuclear trade with India would be signed shortly.
A U.N. nuclear conference of 145 nations indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview.
North Korea's official news agency says leader Kim Jong Il attended a soccer game in Pyongyang
President Evo Morales said Saturday that Bolivia does not need U.S. help to control its coca crop, stepping up his anti-Washington rhetoric days after rejecting an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over the South American nation's territory.
Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning Saturday in the battleground state of Virginia, lashed out at his presidential rival's plan to tackle health care reform.
The $700 billion bailout plan signed into law Friday may get banks to start lending to each other again. But it remains to be seen how long that will take to jumpstart an ailing economy.
The Bush administration has shelved plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, in part over fears it could affect the U.S. presidential race or be interpreted as political meddling, The Associated Press has learned.
Fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed in an overnight clash with Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey along the country's border with Iraq, President Abdullah Gul said.
North Korea's reclusive leader, Kim Jong Il, made a rare public appearance at a Pyongyang soccer match, the country's state news agency reported on Saturday.
France is a key U.S. ally in confronting Iran's nuclear program. But many in Paris, and Washington, believe that solving the problem requires direct U.S.-Iranian talks
The Cambodian government accused Thailand on Saturday of trying to provoke "full-scale armed hostilities" between the two neighbors after a cross-border gunfight.
Suspected U.S. missiles hit buildings in two Pakistani villages close to the Afghan border, killing 20 people
Crowded out by the economy and other issues, billionaires stop funding a campaign to put education front and center in the presidential election
In a move bound to anger China, the United States intends to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan, the State Department said Friday.
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama weighed in Friday on the passage of the economic bailout bill, which was signed into law by President Bush.
The dollar was mixed Friday after the House approved a massive intervention in the nation's financial system.
The vice presidential candidates, Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday night. Gwen Ifill of PBS was the debate moderator. Here is a transcript of that debate:
Sarah Palin stared criticism straight in the face Thursday, telling opponent Joe Biden and moderator Gwen Ifill that she would answer questions and address issues on her own terms during the vice presidential debate.
The abuses Chucky Taylor is accused of committing were perpetrated in Liberia. Prosecuting them on U.S. soil could make the trial a legal landmark
At the prodding of Iran, whose support is critical to the survival of the Assad regime, Damascus can be expected to beef up Hizballah
An angry exchange of public denunciations between top leaders of the ANC suggests that some Mbeki loyalists may be planning to quit the party
Vietnam's health ministry has discovered the industrial chemical melamine in 18 food products imported from China and three other countries and has ordered them recalled and destroyed, officials said Friday.
To borrow the title of a classic modern novel, "Things Fall Apart." In just decades, Americans have gone from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to George W. Bush's Rash Deal.
Once the world's biggest donor nation, Japan is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reached into the past to save his future Friday, recruiting stars from the Tony Blair era into his Cabinet.
Sen. Joe Biden gave a knowledgeable but restrained performance in Thursday night's vice presidential debate, while Gov. Sarah Palin sought to show that her accomplishments as governor and mayor prove she is qualified for the job.
You wanted to know more about carbon trading, and Abyd Karmali, Managing Director and Global Head of Carbon Emissions at Merrill Lynch answered.
Sen. Joe Biden was debating Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday night, but the Democratic vice presidential candidate known for attack-dog instincts saved his bites for Sen. John McCain.
Irish President Mary McAleese has signed a sweeping bank-guarantee bill into law, granting protection to all deposits with Irish-owned banks.
Sen. John McCain told CNN Thursday his running mate Sarah Palin will perform well in Thursday night's vice presidential debate against Democratic rival Joe Biden.
For some strange reason, the government keeps writing me checks. Every year Uncle Sam hands me cash to help with my family's health insurance. I also get free money as a reward for buying stocks to fund my own retirement.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel Friday to India to commemorate approval of a landmark U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord, a foreign affairs victory for President Bush during his final months in office
The strong bipartisan Senate vote for a $700 billion economic bailout package will put more pressure on Republican members to back the measure if it comes up for a vote in the U.S. House, Republican leadership aides said.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday praised Congress' approval of a controversial nuclear deal with India, saying it "bolsters our partnership with the world's largest democracy and a growing economic power."
The French and Venezuelan foreign ministers say they are looking at possibly collaborating on civilian nuclear energy projects in Venezuela.
Leszek Balcerowicz, Poland's former finance minister, recently said his country is enjoying "its best period in 300 years." CNN looks at how the country emerged from communism to become one of eastern Europe's most stable and thriving democracies.
Over three years in the making, the U.S. Senate passes a deal with India that opens up the nuclear power for business
The Senate passes an amended rescue plan, throwing the ball back into the House Republicans' court
Officials say the first military talks between North and South Korea in eight months ended in just an hour and a half Thursday, casting doubts over the prospect of any progress from the meeting.
Congressional leaders Wednesday added "sweeteners" to a $700 billion financial bailout plan to attract enough House members, particularly Republicans, to pass the plan, which failed in the House just two days ago.
With the bailout proposal dominating the campaign trail, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama must balance sending out a message of a bipartisan solution while trying to gain a political advantage.
Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that if the financial rescue bill fails in Congress again, "the present crisis will turn into a disaster," and Sen. Barack Obama told lawmakers it's time to "step up to the plate."
The Senate approved a controversial nuclear deal with India on Wednesday, clearing the way for the United States to export nuclear know-how to India after a ban lasting decades.
The United States and Syria held a series of meetings this week, signaling a possible thaw between the two countries as the former seeks to peel the latter from its close ties with Iran.
Polls in five crucial battleground states in the race for the White House released Wednesday suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is making some major gains.
In addition to all his other troubles, John McCain is having a problem with the conservative wing of Arizona's Republican Party
Each month in 2008, CNN Student News will be "Talking Democracy" by introducing an election-year topic on the show and online. From caucuses to conventions and primaries to polls, CNN Student News will be breaking down these election-year concepts for students and teachers.
U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill arrived in North Korea Wednesday for talks aimed at saving a disarmament deal with the reclusive communist nation, the U.S. Embassy said.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, like his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, believes the greatest threat to the U.S. military is its own sclerotic bureaucracy
An additional 31 batches of Chinese milk powder were found contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, China's government said Wednesday, further broadening a scandal affecting products ranging from baby formula to chocolate.
A seven-state survey of the grass-roots anger and confusion generated by the proposed bailout
The annual conference of Britain's hopeful opposition party is overshadowed and unsettled by Congress
The four warships that Russia is sending to Venezuela in its first deployment of military power to the Western Hemisphere since the Cold War also will visit Libya and several other Mediterranean countries, the navy said Wednesday.
European Union monitors began patrolling Georgian territory under a French-brokered peace deal, facing a Russian military that seemed reluctant to retreat
European Union monitors began patrolling Georgian territory Wednesday under a French-brokered peace deal, facing a Russian military that seemed reluctant to retreat.
A missile strike by a suspected U.S. drone killed at least six people in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials said
The Senate may be ready to give approval this week to a nuclear trade deal with India that the Bush administration has been pushing Congress to complete.
After the market meltdown brought home the real cost of inaction, many members of Congress are getting a different message from the public and reconsidering their initial no vote
The chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with North Korea will propose a face-saving compromise during a trip Wednesday to the isolated communist nation in an effort to salvage the derailed disarmament pact, U.S. officials said.
Caught in between four countries and 60 years of conflict, the disputed plateau could soon change hands again -- peacefully
The U.S. dollar rallied against major currencies Tuesday as investors appeared confident that Washington would be able to push through its massive bailout package.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to try to reverse the term-limits law he had long supported so he can seek a third term next year and help the city emerge from financial turmoil
As Israel's embattled prime minister prepares to leave office, he issues a series of stunning departure statements
National Public Radio, already strong online with free downloads from many of its shows, is boosting its digital ambitions with Monday's introduction of social-networking features akin to Facebook
Unilever is recalling four batches of Lipton Milk Tea sold in Hong Kong and Macau after finding traces of the chemical melamine in the product, the company said Tuesday.
The commonwealth of Virginia has traditionally been a Republican stronghold -- the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state was in 1964.
Italian authorities Tuesday arrested two suspects believed to be responsible for the September 18 killing of six African immigrants in Castelvolturno, a small town of 20,000 residents north of Naples.
Sen. Barack Obama blasted Congress for not passing a financial rescue package Monday, while Sen. John McCain's campaign accused Obama and Democrats of putting "politics ahead of country."
Five German tourists held hostage in Egypt for 10 days arrived back in Germany on Tuesday, the German government announced.
The new chief of Pakistan's main intelligence service will surely be scrutinized by American officials who have questioned the powerful spy agency's loyalties in the war on terror
Pakistan has named a new chief for its main intelligence service, an agency whose loyalties in the war on terror have long been a concern to the United States.
The United States, in the latest bid to salvage the North Korea nuclear deal, is sending a senior diplomat to meet with North Korean leaders, the State Department announced Monday.
The $700 billion bailout legislation now under consideration by Congress calls for the Treasury Secretary to implement a plan to stem foreclosures by working with servicers to modify loans.
Historical Background: Presidential debates are a product of the television era. In 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy met in the first general election presidential debate, which was viewed by about 70 million people.
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