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KABUL, Afghanistan — As U.S. and NATO officials revamp their strategy in Afghanistan, a renegade Afghan commander could prove central to U.S. plans to rein in the insurgency through negotiations. Read more
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged on Wednesday to station new missiles near Poland’s border in response to U.S. plans for an anti-missile system and proposed extending the presidential term to six years from four. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Barack Obama pivoted on Wednesday from the glow of a historic White House victory to the daunting challenge of leading a country mired in a deep economic crisis and two lingering wars. Read more
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KEY STORIES Obama wins historic US election World leaders hail Obama triumph Full text: Obama’s victory speech Democrats score huge Congress win California bans same-sex marriage ANALYSIS Dream come true How Obama defied the past to shape the future Why Obama took the White House Challenges ahead Inside the presidential in-tray What the world [...]
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HONG KONG (AFP) – Central banks in Asia followed in the steps of the United States and Europe Thursday, cutting key interest rates in a bid to bring calm to panicked global markets and limiting massive losses. Read more
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Play Video Reuters  – Postcard to U.S. President: Moscow Play Video Video: Obama Accepts Historic Victory ABC News Play Video Video: Kenya celebrates Obama victory AFP AP – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his annual state of the nation speech in Moscow, Russia, … MOSCOW – Russia will deploy missiles near NATO member Poland in response to U.S. [...]
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One of Osama bin Laden’s sons has claimed political asylum in Spain, insisting that he is a pacifist who does not share the beliefs of the world’s most wanted terrorist. Read more
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MEXICO CITY (Nov. 5) – One of Mexico’s top pointmen in the war against drug trafficking died when a government jet crashed into a Mexico City street, setting fire to dozens of vehicles and dealing crusading President Felipe Calderon a serious blow. Officials said the [...]
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‘It’s been a long time coming, but tonight… change has come to America,’ the president-elect told jubilant supporters in Chicago. Read more
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The US media proclaimed the American public’s newfound maturity for returning an African-American president-elect. The Chicago Tribune reports that when Obama was born, in 1961, African-Americans risked being murdered for trying to vote in the southern states. Read more
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details: “The couple [...]
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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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Imagine a whole national holiday dedicated to storming the U.S. Embassy and taking 52 Americans hostage for a mind-numbing 444 days! That’s how Iran is officially marking America’s Election Day — they call their anti-U.S. government-staged protests National Day Against Global Arrogance, a tradition since the bloody 1979 Islamic Revolution that saw dissidents killed or [...]
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A headline over an election story in Tuesday’s Guardian, a British newspaper, read simply, “America’s moment of truth.” And that it was—a test of our nation’s character. Were we really ready, as all the polls said we were, to elect a mixed-race man with an African-Arabic name as our 44th president? Were we going to [...]
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“It’s been a long time coming. But tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America,” Mr Obama told 100,000 supporters, as he took his victory bow with his family. Read more
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Rex Features The Cheeky Girls enjoyed the services of a male stripper at their 26th birthday party. Monica and Gabriela Irimia, who are both rumoured to be currently single, partied at the Embassy nightclub to celebrate their joint birthday. The stripper arrived dressed as a policeman and removed his clothes to reveal a leopard skin [...]
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Despite a nearly weeklong cease-fire, fighting has erupted in Congo, north of the nation’s capital. A U.N. official says some international peacekeepers were caught in the cross-fire between Congo rebels and pro-government forces. But she says no casualties were reported. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It was only after two weeks at sea, his body dehydrated and near starvation, that Gregorio Maria Marizan finally took out his fisherman’s knife. Read more
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PHOENIX — We’re sick of reading polls, so we’re looking for other harbingers here at the McCain/Palin Victory Party here at the lovely Arizona Biltmore resort in Phoenix. Read more
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Civil-rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. had a powerfully articulated dream that millions of Americans who were not proudly steeped in ignorance and hate could and did share, and which they nurtured in their hearts; it was a message of faith in and of hope for the broader human family – for what’s now known [...]