Parties' funding talks suspended
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Talks on funding of political parties have broken down after 18 months of negotiations, it has emerged.
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Monday night&#39;s debate between candidates for state attorney general is off after Republican challenger Joe Knott backed out. Knott spokesman Jeff Miller says the campaign cancelled the debate because it didn
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Talks between team owners and  locked-out players broke off without agreement Thursday,  leaving hopes for an ice hockey season hanging by a thread.
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ABUJA, Nigeria -- Sudan's government and Darfur rebels suspended faltering peace talks yesterday, and the British aid agency Save the Children announced it was pulling all 350 of its staff out of the western Sudanese region after the killing of four of its staff.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The rival Hamas and Fatah parties froze talks yesterday on forming a Palestinian unity government, Fatah officials said. This was a new setback in efforts to form a more moderate coalition acceptable to the West.
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Action halted after eight-hour talks but commuters face further rush hour misery this morning.
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Mitt Romney suspends his bid for the Republican party nomination for the White House.
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A South Asian summit due to start in Bangladesh at the weekend was postponed on Wednesday after India's prime minister pulled out because of a political crisis in Nepal and security concerns in Bangladesh.
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No agreement has been reached in the negotiation between Northern Ireland&#39;s Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP and its rival Sinn Fein, to resume peace talks.
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The UK Independence Party suspends one of its MEPs, while alleged financial irregularities are investigated.
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Parliament postponed a confirmation hearing Thursday on Yulia Tymoshenko's nomination as prime minister amid behind-the-scenes negotiations over who would fill the Cabinet of Ukraine's new president.
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Negotiators from General Motors Corp and the United Auto Workers union on Saturday suspended contract talks after a marathon bargaining session and agreed to return to the table later on Saturday.
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Russia&#39;s Natural Resources Ministry has postponed consideration of whether to suspend the licenses of the main subsidiary of the troubled giant oil firm Yukos.
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MEPs in the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) have agreed to put any talk of an imminent leadership contest on the backburner so as to keep the anti-Europe party from self-imploding. "Crisis talks" were ...
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The third round of peace talks aimedat ending a 22-month-old crisis in Sudan&#39;s troubled Darfur region has been suspended after the rebels accused government forces of continuing attacking them.
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Peace talks between the Sudanese government and two rebels groups reconvened briefly Thursday, but then were suspended until Monday.
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The British government's cultural arm, caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security service.