Chicago :: IL :: USA
| about 13 hours ago
The fundraisers for the Obama-Biden transition announced this morning that they raised just under $1.2 million to finance the transition in the 11 days following Barack Obama's election. At a little over $100,000 per day, the pace of the transition's...
Tags: transition, obama, president, barack, elect, election, Barack Obama, john, Obama-Biden, Obama Lists
Islamabad :: Pakistan
| 1 day ago
At least 10 people were killed and about 50 wounded Monday when a bomb fixed to a motorcycle exploded in Karachi as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf visited the southern city, a minister said. The blast ripped through a crowd outside a clothes factory...
Tags: musharraf, president, benazir, blast, bhutto, bomb blast, bomb, election, killed, zardari
Baghdad :: Iraq
| 1 day ago
In a news conference in Chicago, Obama introduced Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as secretary of state, bringing on board the candidate who battled him for the Democratic presidential nomination during a long primary season. As America's top diplomat,...
Tags: secretary of state, obama, clinton, hillary clinton, gates, diplomat, hillary, barack, election, Barack Obama
Chicago :: IL :: USA
| 1 day ago
Justice Department, President-elect Barack Obama said Monday. "Eric Holder has ... distinguished himself as a prosecutor, a judge and a senior official," Barack Obama said of his U.S. attorney general nominee during a news conference in Chicago. "And...
Tags: president, obama, african-american, barack, first black, attorney general, Obama Names Eric Holder, Barack Obama, election, African-American U.S
Khulnā :: Bangladesh
| 1 day ago
Detained former BNP state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar submitted nomination papers for Netrakona-4 constituency as he did not get the party ticket. The BNP-led four-party alliance nominated Lt Col (retd) Atarur Rahman Atik in that constituency.
Tags: election, president, nomination papers, BNP, submitted nomination
Washington :: DC :: USA
| 1 day ago
President-elect Barack Obama seems to be winning over skeptical military commanders who at first distrusted him, analysts say. With Obama set to announce the leadership of his national security team Monday in Chicago, he has been meeting with Adm...Mullen's...
Tags: obama, president-elect, president, elect, gates, barack, meeting, election, politics, defense
Islamabad :: Pakistan
| 2 days ago
Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman and newly elected President of the country Asif Ali Zardari has thanked the nation for his election to the coveted post. In a statement issued here on Saturday, President Zardari pledged to strengthen the federation....
Tags: president, zardari, pakistan, asif, ali, election, new president, Asif Ali Zardari, bhutto, Pakistan People’s Party
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 2 days ago
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy today warned his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan Al-Bashir that he needs to step up efforts to end the five year conflict in Western region of Darfur. Sarkozy met with Al-Bashir privately on the sidelines of the...
Tags: election, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, Sudan
Embu :: Kenya
| 2 days ago
At the General Kago Stadium in Kangema, Environment Minister John Michuki and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta asked the people to unite and forge a common front in their quest for leadership. Uhuru was bellicose enough to communicate, before national...
Tags: kenya, prime minister, election, Uhuru Kenyatta
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 2 days ago
Sudanese politicians claimed Barack Obama as one of their own on Saturday as they belatedly celebrated his election as U.S. president, hailing his family roots in their country...But he acknowledged his distant Sudanese roots in his autobiography 'Dreams...
Tags: obama, election, elect, president, elections, barack, Barack Obama, 2008, mccain
