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President George W. Bush and the two men running to succeed him raised the political stakes dramatically yesterday in the great bailout debate of 2008, effectively stamping a “too big to fail” sign on congressional efforts to pass a pre-election rescue plan. Read more
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Saudi Arabia’s king called for greater dialogue and openness between the world’s monotheistic religions on March 24, 2008. In the face of rising tensions over Mohammed cartoons, al-Qaida claiming Pope Benedict XVI is leading a crusade, and a stalled Middle East peace process, King Abdullah‘s outreach took on extra weight. From the International Herald Tribune: [...]
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OK, so since Junichiro Koizumi left office there hasn’t been a really great record of keeping prime ministers in Japan. But today, with an overwhelming Liberal Democratic Party vote in the lower house that overrode the uppoer house pick of opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, Taro Aso became Japan’s first Roman Catholic prime minister. More from [...]
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Fitting because Hynes, the Democratic state comptroller, played quarterback for the long, grinding drive that finally pushed major restrictions on “pay-to-play” politics into the legislative end zone. Read more
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All flights in Pakistan have been suspended after a string of bomb warnings at airports across the country. The country’s civil aviation authority is said to have [...]
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Rex Features A selection of Andy Warhol’s celebrity portraits are up for sale at Christie’s. The artwork is included in the auction houses’s Old Master, 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Prints sale. Four of the legendary pop artist’s portraits of Marilyn Monroe are expected to fetch more than £150,000, with two 1967 colour screenprints carrying [...]
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While China grapples with its latest tainted food crisis, the political elite are served the choicest, safest delicacies. They get hormone-free beef from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, organic tea from the foothills of Tibet and rice watered by melted mountain snow. Read more
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By SALLY GOLDENBERG and ANDY SOLTIS Loading new images… PHOTO GALLERY: Busy Day At The UN Last updated: 10:01 amSeptember 24, 2008 Posted: 3:51 amSeptember 24, 2008 President Bush yesterday challenged the United Nations to join hands to stop state-sponsored terror – but Iran’s boorish leader gave him a very visible thumbs-down instead. Bush ticked [...]
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Every time we shovel, another load of LHC lands on the doorstep. This 30-second TV ad that the McCain campaign is showing in key battleground states is called “Chicago Machine.” It’s a policy-free hit piece, another attempt to cast Barack Obama as a sort of nefarious character — this time playing on the Illinois senator’s [...]
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MOSCOW, Sept. 24 — A prominent Chechen politician who recently served in the Russian parliament was shot to death Wednesday night while waiting in his car at a traffic light near the British Embassy in central Moscow, authorities said. Read more
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KABUL — Mirza Kunduzai, 58, a slight man with a short white goatee, had almost reached his house after a day of trading in the capital’s open-air currency market when his taxi was forced to stop by six heavily armed men dressed in Afghan National Army uniforms. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s inspector general’s office is investigating a secret meeting at the presidential palace in April between top aides to President Álvaro Uribe and emissaries of a feared paramilitary warlord. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 23 — The office of ousted South African President Thabo Mbeki announced Tuesday that his deputy president, 10 cabinet ministers and three deputy ministers were resigning, an exodus that sent tremors through the markets of Africa’s biggest economy and stoked fears of a political crisis. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 24 — Iraq’s parliament passed a provincial elections law Wednesday that paves the way for balloting in most parts of the country by Jan. 31 and that could help bolster efforts at national reconciliation. Read more