COMMENTARY | In spite of the current protests over everything from dissatisfaction over the economy to any efforts at restoring the economy and putting people back to work, it’s still all-too-easy to imagine President Barack Obama will be re-elected in 2012. Why? It’s nothing other than religious extremism within the
Residents in parts of the US state of Oregon are to cast their votes by iPad during a special election on Tuesday. The program, designed to make voting easier for disabled residents, is part of a five-county pilot in the north-western state. The counties are voting to nominate candidates to
NEW DELHI: A set of freshly declassified top secret papers on the 1971 war show that US hostility towards India during the war with Pakistan was far more intense than known until now, said a report published in the Times of India. The documents reveal that Indira Gandhi went ahead
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s fortunes are improving slightly, although he would face a tough struggle for re-election next year if Mitt Romney were the Republican nominee, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Friday. Forty-nine percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, up from 47
The International Criminal Court said Thursday that the death of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have been a war crime, Reuters reported. “I think the way in which Mr Gaddafi was killed creates suspicions of … war crimes,” ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo reportedly said. “We are raising this concern to
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s party struggled to hang onto its majority in Russia’s parliamentary election, results showed Monday, suggesting Russians were wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade. Rival parties and election monitors said even a result of around 50 percent was inflated,
Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano is holding a series of meetings with senior politicians to try to agree on a new caretaker government after PM Silvio Berlusconi resigned on Saturday. It is hoped the new government will be named before the world’s financial markets re-open on Monday. Ex-EU commissioner Mario Monti
French President Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a liar in a conversation with President Obama caught on an open mic at last week’s G-20 summit. “I can’t look at him [Netanyahu] anymore, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy told Obama, the French media website Arret Sur Images reported. “You’ve had enough
JERUSALEM: Israeli President Shimon Peres warned late on Saturday that an attack on Iran was “more and more likely,” days before a report by the UN nuclear watchdog on Iran’s nuclear programme. He told Israel’s privately owned Channel Two television: “The intelligence services of the different countries that are keeping
The UN’s atomic watchdog is planning to reveal evidence that Iran has been working secretly to develop a nuclear weapons capability, diplomats say. The evidence is said to include intelligence that Iran made computer models of a nuclear warhead. Iranian officials say the International Atomic Energy Agency report, due next
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