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Shriver trying for a presidential campaign coup?
California First Lady Maria Shriver’s powerhouse annual Women’s Conference last year managed a coup in rounding up all the presidential candidates’ wives — and this year, looks like she may up the bar with both GOP Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.
It’s a natural: Shriver, a […]
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Surprise! Zimbabwe’s long-ruling dictator, Robert Mugabe, “won” last Sunday’s presidential, run-off election, having used terror and intimidation to silence his political opponents and force rival candidate Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, to withdraw from the contest.
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WASHINGTON — Despite the killings of those combating the illegal drug trade, the corruptive influence of drug money and the sense that in some parts of the country drug dealers have the last word, Mexico is not Colombia, although the two are frequently held up for comparison.
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TOYAKO, Japan, July 6 — President Bush Sunday defended his decision to attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games next month in Beijing, saying that to skip the event — as human rights activists have urged — would be an “affront to the Chinese people.”
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 22 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s blistering attack on President Bush at the United Nations this week marked a striking crescendo in a campaign to project Venezuela as a country with the global reach to counter American initiatives.
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CARTAGENA, Colombia, July 2 — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke repeatedly Tuesday and early Wednesday about how he would work as president to free three American hostages held by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, but he declined to reveal one key fact: Colombian President Ãlvaro Uribe and his aides had briefed him Tuesday evening about the […]
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Judy Salvador, a retired American Airlines ticket agent, recently typed two words into Google’s search engine: “cheap dentists.”
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A catered fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama was held recently at Duke’s City, an upscale restaurant and bar nestled amid the hip new condominiums in the District’s U Street corridor, where up-and-coming white professionals are slowly taking over an area that was once mostly black.
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In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, July 5 — Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told a special team of intelligence agents assigned with drawing up a hostage rescue operation to be inventive and bold.
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TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - President George W. Bush promised on Sunday to be constructive in talks on global warming but said a deal was impossible unless fast-growing China and India agreed to limit their greenhouse gas emissions.
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ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might “refine” his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.
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US President George W Bush has said he remains concerned about North Korea’s alleged enrichment of uranium and other security issues.
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The North needs to do more, he said, citing U.S. concerns about its enriched uranium, arms proliferation, human rights abuses and ballistic missile programs. “I view this process as a multistep process where there be action for action,” he said.
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The pregnant man who conceived a child after a sex-change operation was said last night to have given birth to a healthy baby girl.
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The latest teenage victim of London’s knife crime crisis pleaded for his mother as he lay dying in the street.
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BERLIN (July 5) - A man tore the head from a controversial
waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin’s
Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.
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Laura Robson was crowned the new Queen of Wimbledon yesterday, finally bringing to an end 24 years of British disappointment.
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An angry Berlin man fought off museum guards and beheaded a life-sized waxwork of Adolf Hitler today, according to media reports in the UK.
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Question: What’s next for Zimbabwe?
On June 27, 2008, Robert Mugabe ran for his sixth term as president of Zimbabwe, a position he’s held since the country’s 1980 independence. However, Mugabe competed in the runoff election against himself: Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who led after the first round of voting and is widely […]