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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in Ramallah to meet with Palestinian leaders a day after Israel said it would build new housing units in Jerusalem.

Boris A. Berezovsky, who fled Russia in 2003, won a lawsuit against a Russian broadcaster that had linked him to the high-profile death of Alexander V. Litvinenko.

Ibaraki Airport, which opens Thursday about 85 kilometers, or 52.7 miles north of Tokyo, aims to be a completely new type of Japanese hub.

Plans to move more Israelis into Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem have been met with opposition from Israelis who favor the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in that part of the city.

As his visit overlapped with that of the U.S. defense secretary, the Iranian president said the U.S. occupation was doomed to fail.

The incomplete results will offer an incomplete picture of the vote but will nevertheless provide the broad outlines of the country’s political landscape.

Prosecutors accused Colleen R. LaRose, who called herself “JihadJane,” of involvement in a plot with militants.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will discuss military cooperation and Iran’s nuclear program, officials said.

"The Paranoid Style of American Politics," published in 1964, is being invoked to analyze developments like the Tea Party movement, the stardom of Sarah Palin and the claims of right-wing talk radio.

A fugitive Islamic militant killed by Indonesian security forces traveled to Indonesia from the Philippines within the last few months, police officals said.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plan to provide free care for the growing elderly population faces opposition at a time of record deficits.

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, a report found.

The ruling military junta announced a new election law that would likely prevent Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in coming elections.

After months of delay and discord, negotiators are making a fresh effort to wrap up a long-delayed arms control treaty.

Israel, widely believed to have nuclear weapons and possessing no oil, said on Tuesday that it intended to develop civilian nuclear plants for energy.

The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement.

Robert M. Gates’s visit to the village of Now Zad — and his first walk through a market during wartime in Iraq or Afghanistan — would have been unimaginable even three months ago.

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, Islamist militants and local U.N. staff, according to a report.

The removal of a Palestinian family has touched two nerves: the fate of East Jerusalem and the grievances of refugees from the 1948 war.

The removal of a Palestinian family has touched two nerves: the fate of East Jerusalem and the grievances of refugees from the 1948 war.