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NYC museum unveils Michelle Obama portrait
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago
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An oil painting of Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha was unveiled Wednesday as part of an exhibition by artist Elizabeth Peyton, best known for her images of diverse historical figures and celebrities such as Napoleon and Kurt Cobain. "Michelle and...
Tags: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Sasha Obama Listening, Elizabeth Peyton, national convention, democratic national
ANC dissidents hold convention
Cape Town :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility The 5,000 delegates are expected to announce today that they will form a breakaway party. Leaders of all the main opposition parties speak in support of the group. November 2, 2008 About 5,000 delegates, most of them former ANC members, packed the hall...
Tags: South Africa, national convention, ANC
Breakaway ANC meets in South Africa
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dissident members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC)are meeting in Johannesburg to discuss forming a breakaway movement. More than 7,000 people gathered for the two-day convention, which began on Saturday, to draft policies for...
Tags: ANC, Mosiuoa Lekota, national convention, Terror Lekota, South Africa, Jacob Zuma, African National Congress, rule party, Moeletsi Mbeki, defence ministers
GSUSA Convention Opens
The GSUSA Convention opened Wednesday night in Indianapolis, IN with an enormous crowd of supporters who ranged from those dressed in historical uniforms to parents and siblings of girls in the opening ceremony. Thirty minutes to the ceremony, the arena...
Tags: Girl Scouts, GSUSA, National Convention, Leadership, Open Space
Dialogue, not disruption, this weekend
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility The national convention called by Mbhazima Shilowa and Mosiuoa Lekota will include representation from all nine provinces and from the leaders of the main opposition parties, the Democratic Alliance, the United Democratic Movement and the Independent...
Tags: Mosiuoa Lekota, ANC Sandton, Terror Lekota, national convention, Mbhazima Shilowa, South African, political parties, gauteng premier, premier mbhazima
ANC braces for bruising split
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility The ruling African National Congress (ANC), which led the struggle against apartheid, is bracing for a potentially bruising split on Saturday as dissidents open a convention to prepare to launch a rival party. About 4 000 people are expected to attend...
Tags: SANC, Thabo Mbeki, South Africa, Mosiuoa Lekota, Jacob Zuma, IOL, national convention, ruling party, freedom charter, Terror Lekota
It's Convention Time
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility The national convention that could help launch a new party founded by Terror Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre over the weekend. Speaking at the Business Centre in Rivonia, Shilowa said on Monday that the group...
South African former minister announces new party
Johannesburg :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility South African former minister announces new party Agencies Published: October 19, 2008, 17:33 Johannesburg: South Africa's former defence minister has said a breakaway party will be formed to challenge the ruling ANC, a radio station reported on Sunday....
Tags: ANC Mosiuoa Lekota, South African Communist Party, Mbhazima Shilowa, defence minister, Cosatu, minister announced, breakaway party, ruling anc, national convention, gauteng premier
Reporters arrested at GOP convention: No charges
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Charges will be dropped against journalists who were arrested during the Republican National Convention protests and cited with unlawful assembly...Paul Mayor Chris Coleman said Friday that the city attorney's office recommended against prosecuting reporters...
Tags: republican national, national convention, Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, St. Paul
Case closed in Pelosi hotel scare
Denver :: CO :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility o charges will be filed against a man who carried guns into a downtown Denver hotel lobby where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stayed during the Democratic National Convention. A criminal case against Joseph Calanchini, 28, of Pinedale, Wyo., has been "closed,"...
Tags: Nancy Pelosi, house speaker, Joseph Calanchini, speaker nancy, House, denver hotel, Pinedale, Wyoming, national convention, police say
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