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Hezbollah's continued support of beleaguered Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime tarnishes its credibility.

Newt Gingrich asks rival conservatives to stand aside in Republican primaries so he can fight on against Mitt Romney.

Coalition cracks, Europe rows, Miliband attacks and unhappy backbenchers: IBTimes UK reviews prime minister's miserable last seven days.

Palestinian DDoS attack against Haaretz Hebrew website and escalating cyberwar carry major political significance.

Some local Islamic leaders have even demanded that the writer should not be allowed to visit India.

International Business Times UK gauges the temperature of opinion around embattled Labour leader.

Constitutional specialist calls legal issues surrounding Scottish referendum 'unholy mess' as Cameron and Salmond prepare to meet.

The move is seen as opening up of new domain extensions for brands, organisations and services apart from the already existing 22 general use domain extensions like .com, .org or .net.

Tablet devices the world over are witnessing a rapid decline in sales with the exception of Apple. This has forced smaller tablet makers to cut prices and capture market shares.

The 34-mile wide (at its narrowest point) oil transit route holds the key to deciding a new geopolitical equation as major world powers are already taking sides in case of a war.

A poll of 20 hedge fund managers, economists and traders conducted by Reuters predicts that gold prices will fall below $ 1500 an ounce over the first quarter of next year.

“When I walk to school in the morning I used to get a tummy ache because I was so scared … that they were going to stand and start yelling and spitting,” the AP has quoted Naama Margolese as saying.

With scuffles over the Muslim call to prayer, controversy over women's rights and accusations about freedom of expression being stifled, what is happening to diversity and tolerance in the state of Israel?

The prime minister’s decision today to pull Britain to the point of EU departure, may have won a few hearts in the mean time, but the decision to “look after the interests of Britain” may have seriously damaged the UK’s long term economy.

Two million public sector workers are set to walk out on November 30, in some of the biggest strikes Britain has ever seen.

As news emerges that EDL members will seek political office, IBTimes UK looks at where that may be.

The fact that even the strong and the mighty of the Eurozone is not insulated from the contagion was evident from Germany’s failure to sell bunds on Wednesday.

As the Eurozone crisis continues to run its course many eurosceptics have taken to print and the airwaves to point out that what they have been saying for decades about the flaws in the European Project is finally coming to pass.

Stand-first: Mario Monti has a tough task at hand – to shore up the finances of Italy which are a total shambles.

Sepp Blatter, the absurd head of FIFA has apologised for making remarks which, as far as one can see, where not in fact racist.

Much speculation has been made about the possibility of the popular protests in Syria disintegrating into an Iraq-style sectarian conflict. The IBTimes presents an analysis of the various arguments on either side.

Asia will have to wage a dual battle to contain the aftershocks of the eurozone turmoil and the ongoing unrest in the Middle East.

In an interview with International Business Times, Tory Peer and former shadow treasury secretary Lord Flight described the current EU model as corrupt. He offered three possible scenarios for a New Order.

It’s the turn of professionals to find a solution to the debt crisis of two beleaguered nations, Greece and Italy, which shook the very existence of eurozone. Now the political leadership of these two nations is going to be in the hands of technocratic economists in the desperate bid to lead them out of the debt trap.

As the final twilight of George Papandreou’s premiership dims for good, The IBTimes reveals in an exclusive interview with a source close to the former prime minister, what life was like for the Pasok leader.

Recessions have shaken the world economy in more than once and each time the world has come out of it at different pace. The world can still breathe easy as the gravity of the current recession, in terms of its recovery period, has not yet surpassed the Great Depression of 1930.

An independent research report published by the Cabinet office has revealed the independent motivation behind the riots.

The past seven months have seen bloodshed and uprising in both Libya and Syria, but while former Libyan dictator has been ousted and killed by rebel fighters, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad obstinately clings to power. Could his continued refusal to engage with protesters lead to a similar violent end?

Nearly a century after previous British royalty's visit to Ireland, history was made with Queen Elizabeth II making the first ever visit (May 17-29, 2011) of a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland.