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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, whose late husband Nestor was her predecessor, announced plans to run for re-election.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is set to ask lawmakers to back his new government Tuesday, as he tries to push through unpopular budget cuts in order to get a new international bailout.

For the fourth year in a row, Somalia, plagued by widespread lawlessness, piracy and an ineffective central government, tops an index of failed states.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is being treated in Saudi Arabia after an attack on his compound, will return to Yemen on Friday, senior adviser Ahmed al-Soufi told CNN.

It’s been more than four months since longtime Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was forced out by his people in largely peaceful mass protests that lasted 18 days. The opposition activists who celebrated in the streets after Mubarak stepped down had hop…

President Barack Obama is expected to announce a plan that would result in the 30,000 U.S. “surge” forces being withdrawn completely from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, an administration official told CNN.

An ash cloud drifting around the world for a second time after spewing from a Chilean volcano more than two weeks ago is once again grounding commercial jets and stranding thousands of passengers in Australia.

A teenager has been arrested near London in connection with the hacking of Sony, London’s Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.