Reuters:
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's will hold presidential elections, probably in mid-January but ahead of a parliamentary poll, a senior cabinet minister said on Monday, ending weeks of speculation over which would be held first (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The latest poll shows a narrowing gap between the parties: for the new prime minister it will be 1974 rather than 1997Opinion polls don't really change the political weather. Like mild breezes, they don't bring down trees, or (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
On the eve of the bill determining Britain's digital future, Ben Bradshaw attacks the Tory leader's 'pact' with the Murdochs and defends the BBC, if not its Trust, from its 'circling enemies'. He speaks to James RobinsonAfter (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Leading health experts round on the health secretary Andy Burnham today, warning him off reversing a Labour programme of modernisation and competition within the health service.Burnham surprised cabinet ministers and policy o (Read More)
Reuters:
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two Pakistan cabinet ministers could face prosecution on corruption charges after a graft amnesty introduced in 2007 expires next week, a government list of possible defendants showed on Saturday.
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The Guardian:
Hajj is meant to bring Muslims together in brotherhood. But in 2009, more than ever, security is getting in the way"The hajj is one of the great cultural and spiritual events on earth, but one which most of us know far less a (Read More)
Fox News:
Warrants have been signed for the arrest of two Afghan cabinet ministers on charges of theft and fraud, highlighting the extent of alleged corruption in the government of President Hamid Karzai. (Read More)
NY Post:
It's Thanksgiving week and that means it's time to roast the biggest turkeys in business from the year just past -- and 2009 certainly had its share of bird-brained characters. * Tim Geithner: The cabinet member who shouldn (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Ministers in minority governments live from day to day, hoping to find the right moment to call the general election that will give them a decisive majority but fearing that it will be forced on them at a time when their unp (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
A Tory landslide seemed inevitable at the next general election. But recent soundings show a different trend as Labour benefits from optimism about the economyAlastair Campbell is not normally one to trash the state of the na (Read More)
The Guardian:
African version of Spitting Image has delighted big audiences by ridiculing corrupt politiciansA rapping president describes himself as "a real bad dude"; a prime minister and vice-president fight over lavatories; and a set o (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
With today's poll suggesting a shrinking Tory lead, David Cameron could find himself governing with a tiny majority or none at allA spectre is stalking the corridors of Westminster, the spectre of a hung parliament. The prosp (Read More)
Politics As Usual:
Hillary Clinton tells Vogue: "I do make some people uncomfortable."
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washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
Last October, the president of the island nation of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, made all his ministers put on diving gear and held the first underwater cabinet meeting in history. His point? If nothing is done to slow global w (Read More)
L.A. Times - Home & Garden:
Stacey Coleman's 'contemporary cabinet of curiosities' takes over another storefront, all the better to display the odd and artistic. Stacey Coleman calls his Pas (Read More)
The Guardian:
Maybe the Fifa president should take himself out of circulation for a while and have a damn good thinkFirst we were cross with Thierry Henry. This turned out to be an unsatisfying experience, like shouting tiny, pathetic inau (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Cathy Ashton's meteoric rise has surprised many, but not those who know her bestWhen Cathy Ashton arrived in Brussels at short notice just over a year ago she had to attend to some urgent business: removing traces of her pred (Read More)
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