Greece on Monday faced the prospect of fresh polls after failing to narrow divisions over a painful EU-IMF bailout accord as EU partners pressed for a political deal so as to avoid its exit from the euro. Party leaders hosted by President Carolos Papoulias were to resume talks at 1630 GMT as eurozone finance ministers [...]

The UN nuclear agency pressed Iran for greater cooperation Monday in their first meeting since a “failed” visit in February, with world powers watching closely ahead of their Baghdad talks next week. “We are here to continue our dialogue with Iran in a positive spirit,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief inspector Hermann Nackaerts said as [...]

Regime forces battled rebels and carried out raids across Syria Sunday in a surge of violence that killed 23 people, monitors and activists said, as a tenuous UN-backed truce entered its second month. The fresh wave of bloodletting came as the UN mission in Syria said it now has 189 military observers on the ground, [...]

Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney, wooing social conservatives, has rejected same-sex marriage and trumpeted his belief in Christian values and the family. Three days after Barack Obama became the first US president to back gay and lesbian marriage, Romney told university graduates that the “pre-eminence of the family” remains at the heart of the [...]