• Questions have been raised about Mayor Rob Ford’s conduct, temperament and public statements since his early days as a member of the Toronto City Council.    
  • A report released by the Organization of American States encouraged “flexibility” in how the drug war is carried out, including considering the legalization of marijuana.    
  • LONDON — The divide between rich and poor is widening in developed nations, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. According to the new data, econ...
  • Olli Rehn, the European Union’s top economist and a focus of anger across Europe against harsh belt-tightening policies, says he is not a doctrinaire adherent to austerity measures.    
  • A video being shopped by two men with drug connections apparently shows Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto smoking a crack pipe.    
  • LENNEWITZ, Germany — Many Europeans see American farming and its reliance on genetically modified crops as more Frankenstein than Farmer in the Dell. Now, the opposition here to U.S. agricultural practices is threatening to become a major battle in discussions starting next month that could swee...
  • Former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, seems to be hitting a responsive chord with Iranians who yearn for policies that stimulate business while lowering prices.    
  • On the same day, a young Moroccan woman testified in a sex scandal involving former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Italy’s new prime minister announced the suspension of a reviled tax.    
  • Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.    
  • Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, have found a common purpose in trying to negotiate a Syria settlement, even though positions have not changed.    
  • Human Rights Watch said Friday that visits to two Syrian security centers contained proof of widespread, arbitrary detentions and torture by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.    
  • British authorities are investigating new leads in the case of Madeleine McCann, missing since 2007 at age 3
  • President Thein Sein pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of a state visit to the United States, and more releases are expected.    
  • RANGOON, BURMA — T-shirts bearing images of President Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off the busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Rangoon. It’s a reminder of the his...
  • Egyptian police officers blocked the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen, witnesses said.    
  • A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the poisoning of a former Russian security agent ruled that he had to exclude evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing.    
  • A throng of thousands broke through police cordons in Tbilisi to attack a group of about 50 demonstrators, and at least 12 people were injured.    
  • Thieves stole around $1 million worth of jewelry from a hotel near the Cannes Film Festival sometime early Friday morning, the Associated Press reports. The jewels were in a safe that the thieves ripped out of a wall of a hotel room. Read full article >>    
  • Thieves rip safe from wall of hotel room near Cannes Film Festival and make off with around $1 million worth of jewelry
  • Eight months after militants stormed a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, the political controversy is still raging. Congressional Republicans are still holding investigative hearings, and Gallup found that 69 percent of America...
  • Official reportedly outs CIA station chief to cap week of rising diplomatic tensions between two nations
  • Flash Points: While much scrutiny has been paid to the talking points used to brief the public on the attack on a U.S. facility in Benghazi, CBS News National Security correspondent Bob Orr and senior national security analyst Juan Zarate discuss which questions remain unanswered about the governmen...
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