Politics

Guinea-Bissau votes in presidential runoff - 07/26/2009

BISSAU, Malick Rokhy Ba - Voters went to the polls in Guinea-Bissau Sunday for a presidential runoff between two former heads of state of the coup-prone West African nation, whose veteran leader was...

Britain's Brown wishes Sarkozy swift recovery - 07/26/2009

LONDON- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wished French President Nicolas Sarkozy a "speedy recovery" after he collapsed Sunday while jogging and was rushed to hospital. "The prime minister has...

Worldwide day of protest against Tehran regime - 07/25/2009

AMSTERDAM- Demonstrators in cities around the globe joined protests Saturday denouncing human rights abuses in Iran and showing support for opponents of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmandinejad....

Polarizing Alaska governor Palin steps down Sunday - 07/25/2009

SAN FRANCISCO - Sarah Palin burst into the US political spotlight last year as John McCain's presidential running mate, but on Sunday the polarizing governor of Alaska steps down, with questions...

Iran's Ahmadinejad suffers blow as VP sacked - 07/25/2009

TEHRAN, Jay Deshmukh - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved in to hardliners and sacked his controversial deputy on Saturday, in a first major blow to forging a new government since his...

Iraqi Kurds flock to polls amid tensions with Baghdad - 07/25/2009

SULAIMANIYAH, Shwan Mohammed - Iraq's Kurds cast their votes Saturday in presidential and legislative polls expected to confirm the grip on power of regional leaders locked in dispute with Baghdad...

British PM's party suffers new poll blow - 07/25/2009

NORWICH, Ben Stansall - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party on Friday suffered yet another embarrassing by-election defeat in the first poll triggered by a recent scandal over...

Second Guantanamo inmate to be tried in US - 07/25/2009

WASHINGTON- The US administration is to transfer a second inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison for trial in a US federal court, legal documents said Friday. Mohammed Jawad, who was arrested as a...

US mayors, rabbis in wave of corruption arrests - 07/23/2009

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith - US law enforcement agents on Thursday arrested dozens of politicians and rabbis in an anti-corruption sweep alleging money laundering, extortion, bribery and even...

NKorea 'vulgar' to choose missiles over food: US - 07/23/2009

WASHINGTON- The State Department hit back Thursday at North Korea's denunciation of Hillary Clinton as "by no means intelligent" and her remarks on denuclearization as "vulgar," saying those terms...
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