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Ray Ballentine was waiting for a sign to throw his support to Barack Obama. And when Obama coasted to victory in Iowa's caucuses, there it was — evidence that the senator had the broad racial appeal to get to the White House.
The new president of Texas A&M; University is the first woman and first Hispanic to hold the job.
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said Tuesday that the United States is caving in to Chinese pressure and disregarding democratic values by opposing the island's referendum on its attempt to join the U.N.
A parliamentary session to elect Lebanon's president was postponed for the 11th time Friday, with feuding factions deadlocked over a constitutional amendment and the shape of a future government.
Former Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Gary Forsee was chosen Thursday to lead the four-campus University of Missouri.
Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency — as a Green Party candidate.
The Syrian-backed opposition boycotted a vote to elect a new Lebanese president Monday, delaying parliament's decision for the ninth time and prolonging a bitter yearlong struggle with the Western-backed government.
A senior U.S. diplomat urged Lebanese legislators to elect a new president during Monday's parliamentary session, as increasing tensions between the majority and the opposition made a vote highly unlikely.
Colombia's police chief said Thursday that his forces have foiled an alleged plot to kidnap President Alvaro Uribe's two adult children after monitoring the cell phone calls of jailed guerrillas.
A sharply divided Lebanese parliament again put off its vote for a new president as political bickering Monday still snarled an effort to install the army chief in the post as a compromise candidate.
Taiwan's president pledged Monday he will not declare formal independence for the self-ruled island before his term ends, but he added that a contentious referendum on U.N. membership that has angered Beijing and concerned Washington was out of his hands.
A former president of Liberia was arrested Friday for violating the conditions of his bail while on trial on charges of embezzling $1.3 million in government funds, the prosecutor said.
Parliament on Friday again failed to meet on electing a new president, as Lebanon's factions deadlocked over a tangle of issues, including an amendment to the constitution and the shape of a future government.
Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday he would ask for a referendum on whether he should remain president, and challenged opposition governors to do the same.
A leading member of Lebanon's anti-Syria parliament majority accused the Hezbollah-led opposition Tuesday of putting up new obstacles that could hinder the election of the army chief as a compromise president.
A senior Hezbollah official said Saturday that the militant group holds army commander Michel Suleiman in high regard, further improving his chances of becoming Lebanon's next president and averting a political crisis.
Guyana's former first lady on Wednesday appealed to her fellow citizens to lend her a car to carry out charitable work, complaining she currently has to walk or take a bus.
Lebanon's top Christian opposition leader said Thursday he will back the army chief as a compromise president, increasing the chances for a deal to end Lebanon's political deadlock.
Plagued by turmoil at the top, the American Red Cross ousted its president, Mark Everson, on Tuesday for engaging in a "personal relationship" with one of his subordinates. He took the challenging job just six months ago.
Uzbekistan's president has registered as a candidate in next month's election, the electoral commission said Monday, even though the constitution bars him from seeking a third consecutive term.
The largest state Baptist convention in the nation elected its first female president on Monday.
When Alberto Fujimori abandoned the presidency in November 2000, faxing his resignation from Japan, his ancestral homeland, thousands of Peruvians celebrated the end of an increasingly oppressive regime that was clinging to power in constitutionally questionable ways.
Fujimori is admired as well as hated in Peru. Here's how Peruvians generally see the upside and the downside of his 10-year presidency:
As Peru heads into the most sensational trial in its history, the country is being taken back 16 years to the night when hooded men stormed a barbecue in a Lima tenement courtyard and machine-gunned the crowd, killing 15 people including an 8-year-old boy.