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In 1320, in the Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland's nobles firmly rejected rule by their southern neighbors: ''For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we [...]

EDINBURGH -- ON Sept. 18, residents of Scotland will head to voting booths to answer the question, ''Should Scotland be an independent country?'' The most recent poll suggests that they [...]

LONDON -- President Obama has had his say, albeit couched in diplomatic caveats, and so, too, has J.K. Rowling, implying that her repertoire of wizards, villains and sundry spell-makers would [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer BEIJING - It was, the influential South China Morning Post proclaimed on Wednesday, a 'reminder of who's the real boss.' China's government released a key policy document [...]

Byline: Will Englund MOSCOW - When the commander of NATO forces in Europe said Sunday that he was worried about Russian troops moving across Ukraine to Transnistria, he was talking [...]

Byline: SKB Asante Feb 11, 2015 (Ghanaian Chronicle/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- What is not generally appreciated is the fact that the independence struggle of Ghana was more [...]

Singapore -- Every five years, the United States National Intelligence Council, which advises the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, publishes a report forecasting the long-term implications of global trends. [...]

Byline: Ami Ayalon, Gilead Sher, Orni Petruschka Secretary of State John Kerry deserves enormous praise for getting Israeli and Palestinian officials to sit at the negotiating table together for preliminary [...]

The resignation of two Palestinian prime ministers in quick succession has left the Palestinian Authority leadership in limbo even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry seeks to accelerate negotiations [...]

CAIRO -- Even as they promised to hand authority to elected leaders, Egypt's ruling generals were planning with one of the nation's top judges to preserve their political power and [...]

Here we are, high noon in the year 2011 -- a little past it, actually. July 2 is the middle day of an ordinary year, but the Fourth will do. [...]

Tenders are invited for Provision of Gender analyses of programmes and budgets in Local Self- Government Units. Your offer comprising of technical proposal and financial proposal, in separate sealed envelopes [...]

Apr 10, 2014 (African Arguments/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- A council in the British city of Sheffield has voted in support of independence for the Horn of Africa's […]

Text of report by Azerbaijani private TV station ATV on 3 December [Presenter] Nagornyy Karabakh can only be granted an autonomy status within the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan with the [...]

Today we celebrate an event that took place in the 18th century. It is an unusual event to commemorate with a holiday -- not the first shot in a battle [...]

Byline: Mark Cohen As we celebrate the Fourth of July, most of us are thinking about fireworks and barbeques or boating at the lake. Those of us who are historically [...]

Jaffna is a city of ruins. Some are physical, like the overgrown jumbles of mold-streaked concrete where graceful buildings used to stand. But perhaps the biggest ruin of the Tamil [...]