How Fox News is helping Barack Obama’s re-election bid | Jonathan Freedland
Whoever wrote the political rulebook needs to start rewriting it. It used to be an iron maxim that voters’ most vital organ was neither their head nor their heart, but their wallet. If they were...
View ArticleIraq PM calls for US investment
14 December 2011 Last updated at 05:22 GMT Mr Maliki said there were “limitless” opportunities for US firms in Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has called on US business leaders to invest in...
View Article‘Kommersant’ Firings Over Russian Election
The owner of Russia’s Kommersant Publishing has fired an editor and a senior manager over what he described as a breach of ethics for its coverage of alleged voting fraud during parliamentary elections...
View ArticleNine years of war in Iraq leaves US with little appetite for fighting
Even the most ardent defenders of the invasion of Iraq admit that the war has not ended as they imagined when the first American troops led the assault in 2003. For a start, the conflict went on for...
View ArticleIraq: retreat from Baghdad | Editorial
Anyone who wants to know what a US withdrawal from Afghanistan looks like would do well to study the carefully choreographed events earlier in the week in Washington and in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,...
View ArticleTerror suspect defence law passes
15 December 2011 Last updated at 02:26 GMT FBI Director Robert Mueller said it was not clear how the provision would impact law enforcement agencies The US House of Representatives has passed a defence...
View ArticleAmericans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climbdown
Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be...
View ArticleCongo Supreme Court Hears Election Challenge
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Supreme Court has begun hearing a lawsuit seeking to annul the presidential election that returned incumbent Joseph Kabila to power. Opposition candidate Vital...
View ArticleGovernor calls for suspension over drum major’s hazing death
Florida‘s governor wants the president of Florida AM University suspended amid multiple investigations spurred by a drum major’s death. Republican Rick Scott called the chairman of the FAMU board on...
View ArticleRepublican debaters assail Obama
16 December 2011 Last updated at 05:30 GMT Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney sought to stay positive and avoid major gaffes Republican presidential front-runners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney took aim at...
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