Sen. Ted Stevens' election defeat marks the end of an era in which he held a commanding place in Alaska politics while wielding power on some of the most influential committees in Congress

Congressional Budget Office chief Peter Orszag is the front-runner to be President-elect Barack Obama's budget director, Capitol Hill Democrats say

Former President Bill Clinton has offered several concessions to help Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his wife, become secretary of state

Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed

As Obama's reported pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, the former South Dakota senator returns to an issue that has long been his passion

With the President-elect looking ahead to passing an ambitious agenda, the party caucus decides to let bygones be bygones

City and county workers across Minnesota began a laborious recount Wednesday of more than 2.9 million ballots in the tight U.S. Senate contest between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said

CAIRO,Egypt -- Al Qaeda 's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted today, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The construction of a wastewater treatment plants in Shumen and Popovo was started. The corner stone was laid last Monday by the minister of environment and water. The two facilities tenders have been re-launched in 2005, the contracts were singed

A lawyer wasn't allowed to visit political prisoner Barazenka, activist of the civil campaign "European Belarus", keeping in a detention facility in Valadarski Street.

An official instruction on installing satellite antennas hasn't been issued in Belarus so far. However, it turns out that it exists. For example, no antennas have been installed in the Pershamaiski district of Minsk since the beginning of the year.

A new speaker must be, in the first place, an organizer and must concentrate on the work of the Parliament rather than on his personal career. His top priority should be creation of an efficient coalition regardless of its political

I think that there are no direct threats to the territorial integrity today," the director of the international programs of the Ukrainian center for economic and political researches named after Oleksandr Razumkov, Valerii Chalyi.

This is disclosed in the bill No.3376 "On wages of the top officials for the period of the financial crisis," which was registered by the Verkhovna Rada on November 18.

Maryna Ostapenko, the head of the press service of the SBU, told this to Ukrainian News.

These days memorial events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor - "famine plague" - are held in Ukraine. It is known that Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko invited Alyaksandr Lukashenka to commemorative events too. However the Belarusian ruler like

Alena Barazenka, the mother of the political prisoner of the "European Belarus" civil campaign Alyaksandr Barazenka, stated in an interview to Radio Svaboda that from the beginning she supported her son in his social and political activities.

In Salihorsk a court passed a decision to close the case against human rights activist Yana Palyakova.

British Financial Times believes that complicated dance Lukashenko has led to keep power is becoming ever more difficult.