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Germany's ruling coalition on course for re-election: poll

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their junior coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), are on course to win enough votes to form a narrow majority, a poll showed on Wednesday, before an election on September 22.

House Republicans pass bill to criminalise some abortions

Act would jail doctors for up to five years for abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy but is unlikely to become law

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday night that would jail doctors for up to five years if they performed an abortion on a woman after 20 weeks of pregnanc

Obama has not given up on tougher gun control reform, insists Joe Biden

Biden says senators who voted against extending federal background checks are now prepared to change their minds

Joe Biden has insisted that the Obama administration has not given up on its push for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, and indicated that the White

Putin backs Assad and warns west against arming Syrian rebels

Russian president says backing 'those who kill their enemies and eat their organs' flouts Europe's humanitarian values

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, issued a blunt warning to the west tonight not to arm Syrian rebels who "eat the organs" of their enemies.

Blocking immigration reform would doom GOP 's 2016 hopes, says leading Republican

Senator Lindsey Graham says GOP faces a 'demographic death spiral' if conservatives throw out overhaul of system

Republicans are "in a demographic death spiral" and will fail in their efforts to win the presidency if the party blocks an immigration overhaul, a leading Republican senator sai

From Edward Snowden to Bradley Manning, whistleblowers are the new generation of American patriots Gary Younge

The violation of civil liberties in the name of security has had a profound impact on those who came of age after 9/11

When Darrell Anderson, 22, joined the US military he knew there was going to be a war, and he wanted to fight it. "I thought I was going to free Iraqi people," he told me.

Merkel challenger cracks whip after party chairman's criticism

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's leading challenger to Chancellor Angela Merkel, lagging badly in the run-up to the September 22 election, rebuked his party's chairman, in another sign of disarray in the Social Democrats' (SPD) campaign.

Al Gore says Obama must veto 'atrocity' of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

Former vice-president says oil pipeline is 'really a losing proposition' and demands climate plan promised at inauguration

Al Gore has called on Barack Obama to veto the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, describing it as "an atrocity".

Noted Scholar Jeb Bush Says Immigrants Are 'More Fertile'

Jeb Bush angered/confused both Democrats and Republicans by giving immigrants the most awkward backhanded compliment of all time during today's Faith and Freedom Coalition"s Road to the Majority conference.

Al Gore: NSA's secret surveillance program 'not really the American way'

Former vice-president not persuaded by argument that program was legal urges Congress and Obama to amend the laws

The National Security Agency's blanket collection of US citizens' phone records was "not really the American way", Al Gore said on Friday, declaring that he believed the pract