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Cliff Schecter: the race-baiting and Red-bashing 'Senator No'

It is almost fitting that Senator Jesse Helms - longtime US Senator from North Carolina, onetime right-wing political commentator and a constant conservative voice on both domestic and foreign policy issues in American politics...

Brown keeps the pressure on Mugabe

jpress.co.uk     20 mins ago   39 related          

Gordon Brown will keep up the pressure on Robert Mugabe when he meets South African president Thabo Mbeki at the G8 summit. The meeting comes hours after the Prime Minister used shock tactics to secure backing for a tough...

By-election nominations to close

bbc.co.uk     7 hrs ago   20 related          

Nominations will close for the Glasgow East by-election on Wednesday after seven parties kick-started their campaigns for the Westminster seat. Glasgow City Council hopes to publish a full list of candidates by 1700 BST. Labour...

Islamophobia: Swiss far right seeks vote on minarets ban

Switzerland braced itself for a troubled campaign of Islamophobia yesterday after the far right drummed up enough support to force a national vote to ban minarets. In a country that is home to more than 300,000 Muslims but...

Exit by the left pushes India closer to poll

ft.com     4 hrs ago   256 related          

By Amy Yee in New Delhi and Daniel Dombey in Washington India moved closer to early elections as leftwing allies of the ruling coalition vowed to withdraw support from the government over a nuclear energy pact with the US. The...

Barack Obama heads to London for European tour

Barack Obama will make his first trip as Democratic presidential nominee to London next week, at the start of a tour of Europe where a warm embrace may be overshadowed by his effort to explain how - and when - America's...

Chain And Asia Would Vote For Obama

anorak.co.uk     8 hrs ago   12 related          

CHINA and Asia would vote for Barack Obama, says the Asia Society. During the Asia Society’s 36th Annual Williamsburg Conference in April in Bali, Indonesia, we asked policy leaders from across Asia which US presidential...

Russia joins call for curbs on Mugabe regime

ft.com     3 hrs ago   7 related          

By George Parker in Toyako and Harvey Morris at the,United Nations Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe last night faced a growing likelihood of global sanctions after world leaders, including Russia, backed international action...

Why back a man who claims society is broken but admits he can't fix it?

David Cameron now says that there is no top-down remedy to Britain's social problems. "Help yourselves, Cameron tells the fat and the poor," suggesting that the Tory leader had been generously nodding the overweight towards the...

Struggling German SPD searches for its "Obama"

reuters.co.uk     5 hrs ago   2 related          

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Can Germany's Social Democrats find a Barack Obama of their own to revive their party? At a recent rally in Nuremberg, Hubertus Heil, the deputy leader in the struggling SPD, tried to...

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