The 46-year old Mr. Letta would be the nation's second youngest prime minister if confirmed by parliament. In theory, it marks a generational change but not one of substance.
Writer Paul Reid took Manchester's volume of work and has just completed the final work. It's very long -- 1,053 pages and small type and very, very few chapters -- but well done.
The past two years have been interesting ones for Africa. Africa stands tall in something it hasn't been noted for, and interestingly, therefore, the uniqueness of it has almost slipped under the radar.
I interviewed former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. We taped in London, where he's still a very divisive figure, and much more so, it's clear, than many Americans realize.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The leader of Iceland's government when the nation's banking system collapsed was convicted Monday of one criminal charge, ...
In recent days, in order to try to save Italy from default, Professor Monti has tried to assure Italians with three key words: recovery, equity and growth.
What happens after your life has been threatened and in danger and you've successfully run to safety? According to Jonathan Walker and his wife, Philippa Morgan Walker, "Put the kettle on!"
BANGKOK -- Thai lawmakers elected U.S.-educated businesswoman Yingluck Shinawatra as the country's first female prime minister Friday, setting the sta...
Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass has been sentenced to one year in jail on Sunday for refusing to fulfill a court ruling over a l...
Prime ministers are pretty busy people, especially when the capitalist world believes that your nation could be a domino that brings down the rest of them.
The mandarins of New Delhi must be pleased as punch to have had over to visit leaders of all five permanent member countries in quick succession. Inexorable appears the march but will India find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
We may never know for certain whether former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was the great and magnanimous hero of Stiglitz's telling or a figure brought low by forces he failed to foresee.
LONDON — It's a political memoir with celebrity trappings – secrecy, security, a multimillion-dollar deal and, crucially, controversy. To...
LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is publishing an insider account of the global financial crisis, his first book since being ...
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is used to political lashings. But the latest one is not from an opposition party -- it's from his own wife. In a b...
A new bill to change the rules governing how people who convert to Judaism are treated in Israel is threatening a domestic political crisis and has sp...
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JERUSALEM — The Israeli commission of inquiry into last month's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla will summon the country's prime minis...
A high-ranking White House official confirmed that President Obama had pressed the Prime Minister for a U.S. victory as a partial payback for the devastating damages caused by B.P..
Maintaining strong diplomatic relations and friendship in a time of profound national grief with Poland can be accomplished easily: President Obama should attend President Kaczynski's funeral.
If America is truly supposed to be exceptional in all things, why do other countries -- almost without exception -- decide our governmental structure isn't really for them, when it comes time to choose?
The triumph of the cross-sectarian and nationalist Iraqiya list, headed by former PM Ayad Allawi, represents a major threat to the ambitious agenda of the regime in neighboring Iran.
Gordon Brown resigned as prime minister of Great Britain Tuesday, allowing Conservative Party leader David Cameron to become the new UK prime minister...
