Russia defends support for Assad regime
Posted by: kiranriz
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 13:50:56 -0700 | political-news
Russia has apparently supplied Syria with sophisticated anti-ship missiles. The modern "Jachont" missiles could be directed against the international community by the Assad regime. Russia still defends itself against criticism. According to a report in the "New York Times"...
Obama's big problem
Posted by: itobin53
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 13:57:24 -0700 | political-news
Political scandals keep pundits busy, but they don’t stop the days on the calendar from moving forward. No matter what President Barack Obama’s legacy becomes, he will have to convince the tea party Caucus in the Republican-controlled Congress to help...
Scandal convergence: The Obama administration's perfect storm
Posted by:
Benjamin Burton Jr.
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:47:27 -0700 | political-news
The big movement in journalism a few years back centered around convergence. The industry sought fourth-estaters who not only chronicled but also photographed, edited, shot video and used Google Maps with reckless abandon. Convergence can be a good thing, an...
Scandal convergence: The Obama administration's perfect storm
Posted by:
Benjamin Burton Jr.
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:47:27 -0700 | political-news
The big movement in journalism a few years back centered around convergence. The industry sought fourth-estaters who not only chronicled but also photographed, edited, shot video and used Google Maps with reckless abandon. Convergence can be a good thing, an...
John Kerry fighting new kind of 'cold war' at Arctic Council meeting
Posted by: Robert Myles
Kiruna :: Sweden | updated 2013-05-18 14:06:15 -0700 | political-news
Secretary of State John Kerry was engaged in a different type of “cold war” last week as he met with representatives of nations bordering the Arctic at the conclusion of Sweden’s two year chairmanship of the Arctic Council. Just like...
Obama rocked by scandal—America please!
Posted by:
anonymous
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:16:41 -0700 | political-news
By Harold Michael Harvey When I was a college student a long, long time ago, Richard Nixon was president of the country. Back in that day the popular slang on my campus was, “You are a scandalous.” Anyone attending Tuskegee...
Tribesmen condemn unfair load shedding in FATA
Posted by: sudhir
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-18 05:10:25 -0700 | political-news
The TESCO has put the lives of the tribesmen in troubles by 23 hours load shedding in FATA. The discriminatory and unfair distribution of power supply has caused inconvenience to the tribal people. The power suspension has also created famine...
Italy protests turning the heat up on new Prime Minister Enrico Letta
Posted by: rooys
Rome :: Italy | updated 2013-05-18 14:05:09 -0700 | political-news
Many people dissented in Rome on Saturday against somberness arrangements and heightened unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to keep tabs on making jobs to assist haul the country out of retreat. "We trust that this government will at...
US defends seizure of press phone records as necessary
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 12:52:56 -0700 | political-news
US officials said this week that the unprecedented seizure of two months of telephone records from several Associated Press bureaus to find out who leaked government secrets was justified because of the importance of the information. Deputy Attorney General James...
IRS chief refuses to name employees involved in scandal
Posted by: wendyzachary
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 13:35:46 -0700 | political-news
Republican lawmakers were disappointed and angered when the outgoing chief of Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, refused to disclose names of the employees who targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. Washington is likely to remain preoccupied for months with the...
Pentagon asks Congress to sanction about $9.6 billion for priority projects
Posted by: wendyzachary
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 11:55:00 -0700 | political-news
Winding up the Afghan war is going to cost the United States more than its expectations. The Pentagon has asked lawmakers to approve shifting of about $9.6 billion from this year’s defense budget to priority projects so that it could...
Thousands of protesters rally in Italy's capital Rome to protest against policies of new coalition ...
Posted by: shahzad313
Rome :: Italy | updated 2013-05-18 14:05:09 -0700 | political-news
REPORT BY: SHAHZAD DATE: MAY 18-2013 Thousands of protesters, led by the trade unions, rallied in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government. Wielding red flags and placards, they called for the center-left prime minister,...
The death of former Argentina dictator Videla in prison
Posted by: Fury60
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | updated 2013-05-18 02:30:07 -0700 | political-news
former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla (87 years died in the cell where he was serving a sentence of life imprisonment for crimes committed by authoritarian military regime from 1976 to 1981. The former general was sentenced in Argentina twice life...
Barack Obama, the U.S. military mission keep the country and its people.
Posted by: TaufanTasch
Jakarta :: Indonesia | updated 2013-05-18 02:06:32 -0700 | political-news
Barack Obama, the U.S. military mission keep the country and its people. Washington: The case of sexual harassment in the army increased. Pentagon report, to 3,374 in 2012, an increase of six percent from the previous year, according to AFP....
One killed in clashes between Muslims and Copts in Egypt
Posted by: Falconcrest
Alexandria :: Egypt | updated 2013-05-18 12:31:00 -0700 | political-news
One dead and dozens injured during sectarian clashes in Egypt late Friday night outside a Coptic church in in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, state newspaper Al Ahram reported. It started as a row between two young men –...
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