Mamata Banerjee: Intolerance highlight of one year as Bengal CM The Times Of India Tweet KOLKATA: The Mamata Banerjee government is celebrating completion of a year in office by launching 'Pragati Utsav'. The show is meant to highlight the achievements of her government. But on the day of its launch, on Saturday, Banerjee stole the show for all the wrong reasons. | Appearing in a ...
Hollande passes first test with credit, but tougher ones to follow The Independent | There are much tougher tests to come but the G8 summit at Camp David was a quiet success for the inexperienced new French President. | The New York Times spoke of a "new alliance" between President Barack Obama and Mr Hollande. The Toronto Globe and Mail said that the American and French...
NATO touts Afghan war's end as fighting goes on Palm Beach Post | CHICAGO — As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat. | The ma...
Mixed reviews for Romney's leadership on fatal Big Dig ceiling collapse as governor Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger. | Romney, then in...
Beirut clashes kill 1 amid fear of Syria spillover WPXI | Overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni Muslim groups that support and oppose the regime in Damascus left one person dead and 10 wounded as fears rose further of a spillover from the Syrian conflict, Lebanese security officials said Monday. | The...
NATO touts Afghan war's end as fighting goes on WPXI | As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their troops sure to die in combat. | The many partners in t...
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Serb rightist wins presidency, backs EU path Daily Press | BELGRADE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to...
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president Herald Tribune | CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. | The voting that begins Wednesday is ...
Is this the beginning of the end for gold? The Daily Telegraph Drama in the gold market this week. The metal was at one point trading around 20pc below its summer peak, sparking warnings that the traditional “safe haven” is now in ...
Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy CNBC | WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger. | Romney, then in...
Journalist Brian Doherty foretells GOP's post-Ron Paul political future The Examiner | After a presentation at the Cato Institute about his new book, Ron Paul’s rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired, historian and journalist Brian Doherty spoke to the Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner about America’s political fut...
Obama making us proud The Examiner Obama and his BFF Sarkozy checking out a teenage girl Credit: Getty Images Obama and his BFF Sarkozy checking out a teenage girlMore >Just viewed | Replay Subscribe ShareYou might also like | Eduardo Alementa Torres: Arrested for 6th DUI in Massac...
Serb rightist wins presidency, backs EU path Daily Press | BELGRADE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union. | In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight ...
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries. | Chen escaped from house arrest in northeastern China last month an...
