One of Sen. Hilary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, Mark J. Penn, resigned last Sunday. This has been the second shake-up to the New York Senators campaign since a onetime front-runner decided to support her competitor for the Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Presidency, Sen. Barack Obama.
The ex-strategist resigned because of a conflict in interest. Penn, as a president of a giant PR Firm, Burson-Marsteller, met with
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The Zimbabweans are going to vote for their next President. Some voters slept at the polling stations, most got in line before dawn. A guard has left his post at a mall and walked for two hours before he got to the polling station, and even teenagers are now flocking to vote. One of them said, “The young people were not really interested because they had no real concerns. Now things are hard for us. Most of us are unemployed and our parents cannot support us because they have younger children (our siblings) to send to school.”
Will this be President Robert Mugabe’s last few days as President? A lot of critics say that it is. Here are just some of the reasons why they think so:
His two opposition candidates, Morgan Tsvangirai and Simba Makoni believes that they will win because of the reasons above. However, if no one wins more than 51 percent of the votes, the two may likely unite and go for a second round.
The U.S. aids Iraq’s Prime Minister by sending in an airstrike against the Shi’ite militias last Thursday and Friday. This happened amidst the escalating violence and political infighting within the nation.
Although American officials said that this campaign is lead by the Iraqi forces, they have been unable to secure Basra and requested for assistance from both the American and British military. Help came in the form of Helicopters. It exchanged fire with the ground-based Shi’ite militia in Baghdad. Rockets smashing the Sunni Vice President’s office, killing one person.
Currently the nation is under curfew, as the Mahdi Army fighters and the combined American and Iraqi soldiers fight it out.
Not so good. According to reports, they say that the North Korea’s Missile Testing the other day was a, …kind of activity is not constructive, rather their government should concentrate on completing their list of nuclear weapons activities and finishing the disablement of its nuclear program.
Last Friday morning, North Korea launched test missiles three ship-to-ship missiles. This came a day after South Korea commented that any further expansions of the project in Kaesong would happen once the North resolved the nuclear weapons issue. South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak said they will be closely monitoring the situation.
The Dalai Lama called on Chinese leaders to, exercise wisdom and to initiate a meaningful dialogue with the Tibetan people.”
The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists was blamed on the escalating violence in Tibet. This was rejected by the Dalai Lama saying that he had no objections in keeping Tibet with China and has no intention of sabotaging the Olympic games.
Global reactions are telling only one thing: dialogue. Both U.S. President Bush and Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd have called on the Chinese government to have a sit-down meeting with the Dalai Lama representatives and face up to the Human Rights abuses in the country.
President Bush praised Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for confronting the Shi’ite militia forces in Basra. According to Bush, the PM, shows his leadership and his commitment to enforce the law in an evenhanded manner” and “demonstrates to the Iraqi people that their government is committed to protecting them.” He continued on by saying that the militia can only do one thing: retreat.
However, things seem to have turned out for the worse. Another U.S. Civilian was killed in the Green Zone, and the Iraqi government spokesman was kidnapped by militia forces. Because of all these, the Iraqi government decided to implement a curfew.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has won the general elections on February 18. The question many people ask is:Will the new Pakistani Government follow in the war of terror led by the
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The two-day conference in
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