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Imelda Marcos sure she'll beat corruption charges
(photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)
Imelda Marcos sure she'll beat corruption charges
Houston Chronicle
| MANILA, Philippines - She glided down a red carpet with a bouquet of roses, trailed by tuxedo-wearing violin and flute players who rendered her favorite love song. She blew out the candles on her 80th birthday cake amid glittering confetti and fireworks. | Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marco...
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono speaks during a joint press availability with President Bush at Bogor Palace in Bogor, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 20, 2006.
(photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Yudhoyono rides anti-corruption wave
Asia Times
| By Patrick Guntensperger | JAKARTA - The conviction on corruption charges of a close relative to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has significantly bolstered his graft-fighting credentials just weeks before presidential polls set for July 8. Former Bank of Indonesia governor Aulia Pohan, the fat...
Bede Zeiden: In politics people go, people come
Joy Online
The General Secretary of the Democratic Freedom Party, DFP, Bede Zeiden, says the decision to join or quit any political party is one made by the individual and very little or nothing can be done about it. | He was reacting to the defection on Friday...
Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
The Examiner
Comments JUNEAU, Alaska (Map, News) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month. | After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a...
Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
Toledo Blade
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month. | After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly a...
Analysis: Republicans, outnumbered and politically wary, lack cohesive opposition to Sotomayor
Hartford Courant
WASHINGTON (AP) — A week before her Senate hearings, are floundering in their efforts to trip up Supreme Court nominee , unable to find an effective message about why she's not fit to serve. | Blame the tricky politics of opposing the woman who...
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, on his arrival at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof.
Creative Commons / BotMultichillT
VP Biden urges Iraqis to make political progress
The Examiner
Comments BAGHDAD (Map, News) - Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as ...
In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden gestures while discussing his recent trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait and Pakistan during a meeting with President-elect Barack Obama, not shown, at Obama's transition office in Washington. Biden will be tested on two fronts this weekend as he makes the Obama administration's first official trip overseas.
AP / Gerald Herbert
VP Biden urges Iraqis to make political progress
The Guardian
| KIM GAMEL | Associated Press Writer= BAGHDAD (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assis...
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., takes the podium to speak at a rally at Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, Ind. Sunday, May 4, 2008.
AP / Elise Amendola
Hillary Clinton tougher on Iran than political-straddler Obama
The Examiner
Comment RSS Email Print | AP Photo | While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton advocated a stronger U.S. response to the beating and killing of protesting Iranians, President Obama ...
Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
Tulsa World
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month. | After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abr...
Political Notebook: Business owner to seek District 8 council seat
Tulsa World
Council District 8 candidate: Businessman J. Bryan Osborne has announced his Republican candidacy for Tulsa's District 8 City Council seat. | "Priorities for city government should be straightforward: well-staffed and trained police and fire departme...
Bulgarian voters expected to punish corruption-tainted government in parliamentary elections
Star Tribune
| SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgarians were voting Sunday in parliamentary elections expected to deal a blow to the corruption-tainted governing coalition, which many blame for failing to protect the Balkan country from the global economic downturn. | Pre-el...
Economy
Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, centre greet supporters at the Likud election headquarters in Tel Aviv, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 .Inconclusive election results sent Israel into political limbo Wednesday with both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line leader Benjamin Netanyahu claiming victory and leaving the kingmaker role to a rising political hawk with an anti-Arab platform.
(photo: AP / Bernat Armangue)
Netanyahu shakes up Israeli govt economic panel
The Star
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday revamped Israel's National Economic Council, naming former budget director Ori Yogev to head the panel that advises the premier on economic matters. | Yogev, who had previously been the head of the Council's advisory board, replaces Manuel Trajtenberg -- a nominee of former prime m...
Politicians
Opposition Presidential candidate John Atta Mills speaks to journalists after casting his vote at a polling station in Regimanuel Estate, in Accra, Ghana Sunday, Dec. 7, 2008.
(photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
President Mills returns from Libya
Joy Online
President John Evans Atta Mills returned home late Saturday night from Libya where he attended the 13th Ordinary Summit of the African Union which took place from July 1 to 3, 2009. | The summit was held on the theme: "Investing in Agriculture for economic growth and food security". | Briefing journalists on arrival at the Kotoka International airp...



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