MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia tested a new long-range missile on Wednesday that should improve its ability to penetrate missile defense systems, the military said, in Moscow's latest warning to Washington over deployment of a missile shield in Europe. The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) was successfully launched from the Plesetsk facility ...

President Barack Obama has to tread carefully in targeting Republican rival Mitt Romney's business resume.

(Reuters) - The passenger who said she had a surgically-implanted device in her body and caused a US Airways jetliner to divert to Maine will not face criminal charges in the security scare, prosecutors said on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty said Lucie Zeeko Marigot, 41, a French citizen originally ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - He's had cheeseburgers with U.S. President Barack Obama, palled around with ex-Hollywood movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger and gushed with praise on a visit to Silicon Valley. On Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev encountered another American phenomenon: the cowboy. He did so not in the United States ...

The senator who spurred the Government Accountability Office to investigate the startling numbers of foster children being put on powerful, mind-altering drugs is calling on the Obama administration to follow through on its vow to find solutions to the issue. “This is a deeply disturbing problem...

Questions are emerging from this week’s rhetoric and polling data that could be answered in the fall presidential debates.

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament passed a pro-growth initiative proposed by the opposition Socialists on Wednesday after the austerity-minded centre-right government dropped its opposition amid a growing European debate on how to combine growth with fiscal consolidation. The Socialists previously had threatened to reconsider their support for the terms of ...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and military leaders implored conservative Republicans on Wednesday to approve a long-spurned high seas treaty, saying it would create jobs, open a new path to oil, gas and other resources and bolster national security.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will require "significant firepower" in Afghanistan in 2013-14, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces there said, but decisions about further U.S. troop reductions will only be made after this fall at the earliest. "We're going to need combat power. I don't think anyone ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France's new government rejected calls on Wednesday for the resignation of a minister convicted of branding former managers of a ferry company crooks, arguing the ruling did not undermine new President Francois Hollande's promise of clean government. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said there was no reason to ...