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President Hugo Chavez holds a slim lead in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's referendum, which would allow him to run for re-election, but many Venezuelans remain undecided how to vote, pollsters said.

Former President Mohammad Khatami, who pushed for detente with the West when in office from 1997 to 2005, said on Sunday he would run in Iran's June presidential election.

The Islamist Hamas group is calling for new leadership for Palestinians to replace the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) dominated by its arch-rival President Mahmoud Abbas and the factions loyal to him.

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will run for president again in June, an aide told Reuters on Wednesday, in the first official confirmation he would seek a second four-year term.

The former President earned nearly $6 million in speaking fees last year, almost all of it from foreign companies, according to documents filed by his Secretary of State wife, Hillary Clinton.

Two former presidents reflected on their greatest regrets in office Monday, each looking back to issues that continue to plague the nation years later.

Our new President Barack Obama has vowed to usher in a new era of service and charity for the American public--and while that sounds wonderful,...

Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States Tuesday, and called on Americans to join him in confronting what he described as an economic crisis caused by greed but also “our collective failure to make hard choices.”