Politics

Harry Potter author quits MS charity over 'rifts' - 04/10/2009

LONDON - Multi-millionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said Thursday she had quit as patron of a Scottish charity for multiple sclerosis because the organisation is being ripped apart by an...

Land of the free sours on capitalism: US poll - 04/10/2009

WASHINGTON - Bad news for those fearful of "creeping socialism" in the United States -- only 53 percent of Americans now believe capitalism is the better system, according to a new poll Thursday....

Britain swoops on 'major terrorist plot': PM - 04/10/2009

LONDON, Robin Millard - British police moved to stop a "major terrorist plot" by arresting 12 mostly Pakistani suspects linked to Al-Qaeda across northwest England, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said...

Changing the Image of the “ugly American”: Interview with Keith Reinhard - 04/09/2009

Taqrir Washington, Kara Bentley- It’s not just the world view of the American government that has slipped in the past few years; it’s the view of American citizens and businesses too. Keith Reinhard...

Prague swept up by Obamania - 04/06/2009

PRAGUE, Jan Flemr and Jan Marchal- Barack and Michelle Obama received a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of Czechs Sunday as the US president showed his pulling power at the only open-air...

Ambitious Obama seeks nuclear-free world - 04/05/2009

PRAGUE, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to lead a quest for a world purged of nuclear weapons, denouncing "fatalism" over proliferation and calling for North Korea to be...

You can't solve crisis with a brandy : Obama - 04/03/2009

President Barack Obama warned tongue-in-cheek Thursday that the global economy could no longer be simply remade by venerable political leaders sitting down thrashing things out over a brandy....

Nazi camp survivors testify in Spanish lawsuit - 03/30/2009

MADRID (AFP) - Two Spaniards who survived a Nazi concentration camp appeared as witnesses Monday in a suit filed against four men who allegedly worked as camp guards, judicial sources said. Ramiro...

Indonesian women seek to oust men from parliament - 03/29/2009

JAKARTA, Arlina Arshad - Ahead of Indonesia's April elections, female candidates are knocking on doors, making Facebook "friends" and even singing at circumcision ceremonies to break the male...

Papal panel urges 'constructive dialogue' between Vatican, China - 03/29/2009

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - A papal commission on relations with Beijing is to meet next week to review the position of the Church in China, the Vatican said Saturday. The commission, led by Vatican...
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