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Art, especially music, is something that can contribute greatly to efforts of dialogue between different cultures. It can bridge the gaps which mankind is sometimes very keen on creating...

China’s leadership transition has formally edged ahead, with the executive body of the Communist Party Congress forwarding a list of names to congress delegates for review. State media reported...

Foreign governments no longer have any excuse to avoid supporting Syria’s opposition after dissidents broadened the opposition’s scope with a hard-won unity agreement signed yesterday in Doha, Foreign Minister...

Barack Obama has won a second four-year term as President of the United States. This victory will permit Obama to preside without any concern for re-election. Additionally, the U.S....

 With newly-affluent Russians and Chinese queuing up to tour the EU, Brussels on Wednesday urged European nations to facilitate travel visas to help spur badly-needed economic growth. "It's business,"...

Google and all of its major services were blocked in China on Friday, as the Communist Party meets to appoint new leaders for the first time in a decade....

The European Union, in particular the EU leader Germany, was involved in former Turkish President Turgut Ozal's poisoning and death in 1993, ex-President's son Ahmet Ozal said in an...

Greek lawmakers have approved the 2013 budget involving fresh spending cuts, despite mass public street protests. The budget was passed by 167 votes to 128. The move was a...

Since the death of Leonid Brezhnev, three decades ago this weekend, a series of Soviet and Russian leaders have struggled with the same riddle: How do you modernize without...

The woman who was the target of harassing emails from the lover of former CIA director David Petraeus has been named as Jill Kelley. The FBI launched an inquiry...