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Despite the wacky tragicomedy playing out in divorce court, ranting YouTuber Tricia Walsh-Smith and her soon-to-be ex-hubby, Shubert theater honcho Philip Smith, both say they still care about each other. Read more
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Both supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sounded pleased — make that ecstatic — today with the carefully planned meeting in Unity, New Hampshire, where the two candidates finally kissed and made up for their first joint campaign appearance. Read more
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It looks as though the dictator Robert Mugabe just might “win” – and, if so, as though Zimbabwe, Africa and democracy itself may lose in the run-off presidential election that is expected to take place in his country this coming Friday. Neither the long-ruling Mugabe, who leads the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), nor [...]
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WASHINGTON — It has been a frustrating start of the century for those promoting economic integration of the Americas. The hemisphere seems more ideologically divided than at any time since the Cold War, putting off any hopes of reviving the idea of a Free Trade Area of the Americas, snuffed out two and half years [...]
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TEHRAN, June 14 — Iran said Saturday that a package of incentives offered by six countries was “out of the question” because it includes a demand for the country to suspend uranium enrichment activities. Read more
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BEIJING, June 29 — Thousands of people thronged a police station in southwestern China to protest the alleged coverup of a teenage girl’s rape and murder, witnesses and officials reported Sunday. The crowd set fire to a government building complex and several police vehicles. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 17 — Venezuela was stymied for a second straight day in its bid to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council, a result that has shocked diplomats who expected President Hugo Chavez’s leftist, oil-rich government to gain a platform on the international stage. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, June 26 — A high-ranking federal police official and his bodyguard were assassinated here Thursday, the latest in a string of killings attributed to drug cartels seeking revenge against law enforcement agencies. Read more
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UNITED NATIONS — The State Department has urged the United Nations to retain a Rwandan general as the second-highest-ranking U.N. peacekeeper in the Darfur region of Sudan, even though he has been indicted for allegedly committing war crimes in Rwanda during the mid-1990s, according to U.S. and U.N. officials. Read more
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A new Army history of the service’s performance in Iraq immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein faults military and civilian leaders for their planning for the war’s aftermath, and it suggests that the Pentagon‘s current way of using troops is breaking the Army National Guard and Army Reserve. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 28 — President Robert Mugabe has emerged from the most tumultuous election in Zimbabwe’s history with his grip on power restored but his nation’s daunting problems — including hyperinflation, international isolation and an exodus of skilled workers — dramatically worsened. Read more
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By Cris Chinaka HARARE (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe will be inaugurated within hours, a government source said on Sunday, after an election which African observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and intimidation. The Pan-African parliament observers, one of the few groups able to monitor the [...]
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HARARE (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe will be inaugurated within hours, a government source said on Sunday, after a widely condemned election which African observers said was unfair and scarred by violence and intimidation. Read more
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Robert Mugabe has said he is heading for a “sweeping victory” in Zimbabwe’s unopposed run-off presidential poll. Read more
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The election followed a campaign in which, according to human rights groups, at least 86 people died and some 200,000 were forced from their homes. Read more
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, has issued a stark warning that America must invest now in the space agency Nasa, or surrender its leadership of space exploration to Russia and China. Read more
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British prime minister Gordon Brown suffered another setback last night when an opinion poll gave the Conservatives a 21-point lead over Labour. Read more
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The United States said such deals were giving militants the freedom to regroup for attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. With growing militant threats to the nearby Pakistani city of Peshawar — and to the key Khyber supply route for U.S. forces in Afghanistan — Pakistan took action. Late Friday, 700 troops from [...]
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Labour sleaze came back to haunt Gordon Brown today as the Prime Minister suffered a triple blow to his hopes of political survival. Read more
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Severe storms with strong winds swept through the Nebraska Plains yesterday, forcing swimmers practising for US Olympic trials in Omaha to flee pools, killing two people in Iowa, and cutting power to thousands. Read more