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Reuters - A candidate for the ruling party PASOK is ahead in the key wider Athens region, a survey for private television Mega TV by the pollster GPO showed after…

Reuters - Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is the leading candidate to win the Nobel Peace Prize with the European Union and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl also among the contenders,…

AP - A one-time Marxist guerrilla chosen by Brazil’s beloved leader to succeed him took a wide lead in Sunday’s presidential election, but a second-round vote seemed likely, an exit…

AP - Asian stock markets climbed Wednesday, with Japanese shares jumping after the government announced its first currency intervention to weaken the yen since 2004.

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AP - Japan’s Nikkei index led world markets lower Tuesday as the yen’s rise to a fresh 15-year high against the dollar and a nine-year best against the euro hit…

AP - A nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier led an armada of warships in exercises off the Korean peninsula on Sunday that North Korea has vowed to physically block and says could…

AP - A protest over electricity shortages in oil-rich southern Iraq turned deadly when police opened fire to disperse the crowd on Saturday, killing one protester in a melee that…

AP - The son of Philippine democracy icons took the lead in the vote count for the presidency after the country’s first automated elections Monday, which were marred by technical…

Time.com - The general election in the Philippines is entering the home stretch. With a week to go before the May 10 vote, presidential front runner Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III…

AP - Leery of using a mobile phone, the militant tasked with directing some of Baghdad’s deadliest recent bombings would get his orders from al-Qaida in Iraq’s leadership by meeting…