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African countries have said they are prepared to provoke a major UN crisis if the US and other rich countries do not start to urgently commit themselves to deeper and faster greenhouse gas emission cuts.In a dramatic day in Barcelona, UN officials were forced to step in after 55 African countries, in an unprecedented show o (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey closely fought • New York and California pick congressmenPresident Barack Obama's political clout was on the line today as Virginia and New Jersey chose governors in contests that could serve as warning signs for Democrats about the public's mood heading into an important mid (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Siegfried Sassoon papers attracted interest from US• Cambridge library still short of asking priceA threat that a rich personal archive of Siegfried Sassoon's journals, poems and letters would be broken up or sold to the US appears to have been lifted, it will be announced today.The National Heritage Memorial Fund will sa (Read More)
The Guardian:
The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the "good war" are starting to break ranks. Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
The former head of the Metropolitan Police calls for a royal commission to take an unbiased view on the future of UK law enforcement – and warns of the dangers of the Tory-favoured US model of elected police chiefsRoyal commissions are not popular with modern governments. It is nearly 50 years since the 1962 royal commissio (Read More)
The Guardian:
Company headed by former speechwriters to Clinton, vice-president Joe Biden and other leading Democrats helped pitch speeches to US audienceGordon Brown's speech to the US Congress in March earned no fewer than 19 standing ovations, a congratulatory call from President Obama and plaudits for its command of global economics (Read More)
The Guardian:
There is a short-sightedness in this article (Afghans will pay the price for a man hellbent on victory, 3 November) that seems to think the story started with this election and fails to respond to the larger patterns at play. Hamid Karzai was implanted initially by the US in the lead-up to the formation of a new government (Read More)
The Guardian:
Originally published on 4 November 1948NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 3.The American people went to bed early to-day in the echo of a thunderbolt. It was divine wrath descending on Mr. Elmo Roper, whose previous record for high scientific accuracy in the matter of Presidential elections was shattered by that same "little man" from Inde (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Andy Beckett meets the rightwing mischief-maker whose 'tittle tattle' is feared by cabinet ministersFor a decade starting in the early 90s, every July a young Irishman with a reckless side used to head for Pamplona. He and friends would take part in the Spanish city's famous Running of the Bulls. As he got older and stouter (Read More)
New York Times:
In a collision of politics, cooking and popular culture, Michelle Obama will reveal the secret ingredient that the chefs from the television show “Iron Chef America” must use in their televised cook-off: anything that grows in the White House garden.
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The Guardian:
White House says president was not planning to stay watch returns no election night parties were plannedBarack Obama suffered a major setback tonight when the Republicans secured a much-sought victory in the first elections since he won the White House a year ago.The Republicans won the governorship in Virginia, one of the (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Noted historian Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke with MSNBC's Ed Schultz tonight about the Obama presidency as it reaches the one year mark. Polls show that Obama's influence with voters has waned somewhat, but Goodwin dismissed that as irrelevant right now. What's important, she said, is what have we learned of the strengths a (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself.From the beginning, it was a bizarre day for Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee and the climate-change debate in general. Making good on their boycott threats from last week, none of the seven (Read More)
National Review Online:
If there’s one thing liberal pundits are experts on these days, it’s the sorry state of conservatism. The airwaves and op-ed pages brim with more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger lamentations on the GOP’s failure to get with President Obama’s program, the party’s inevitable demographic demise, and its thralldom to the demonic deitie (Read More)
The Guardian:
Big election victories by a slate of conservative Republicans in Virginia shows the party is turning back the Democratic tideVirginia, according to the old bumper sticker slogan, is for lovers. In yesterday's off-year elections, Virginians were lovers of Republicans. GOP candidates swept all three statewide offices and made (Read More)