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Presidential Election
New York Times:
This week, on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the United States Embassy in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not mention that, as a student leader in 1979, he had voted against the plan to seize the U.S. compound and su (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
Birtherism wears its crazy on its sleeve. For one thing, the demand that Barack Obama produce his birth certificate did not reach anything close to its crescendo until months after Obama had already posted his birth certific (Read More)
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Campaign 2008,
The Global Financial Crisis
www.guardian.co.uk:
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?Perhaps the best way to understa (Read More)
New York Times:
The financial crisis may have begun on George W. Bush’s watch, but the lack of jobs is now President Obama’s problem, and he needs to act quickly to solve it.
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The Guardian:
• Poll crackdown and state broadcaster denounced• Supreme leader says he welcomes such commentsHe may be the bravest student in Iran or an unwitting stooge of the Islamic regime – or both. Either way, Mahmoud Vahidnia has gai (Read More)
Financial Times:
Mahmoud Abbas has been urged to revoke his decision not to run in the upcoming Palestinian presidential election, amid concern that his withdrawal could deal a fatal blow to diminishing prospects for peace. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Iranian authorities thought to be holding 31-year-old as part of a crackdown on foreign reportersIranian authorities are believed to be holding a Danish journalism student after he was arrested by the Iranian authorities as p (Read More)
The Guardian:
• De facto regime sought to form 'unity' government • Ousted president refuses to continue 'charade'A power-sharing deal between the de facto government of Honduras and the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, has collapsed, reig (Read More)
TIME.com: Top World Stories:
Kenya has done precious little to go after those who allegedly orchestratedthe ethnic attacks that followed the disputed 2007 presidential election.Now the International Criminal Court is getting involved. (Read More)
The Economist:
Our top articles ranked by reader popularity.Local elections in America: An electoral testReshaping British banking: Putting competition firstAfghanistan's presidential election: Out of the runningGeneral Motors keeps its Eur (Read More)
Huffington Post:
BEIRUT — An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face.Mahmoud Vahidnia has received an outpouring of support from governmen (Read More)
The Economist:
Barack Obama will find it hard to take much comfort from this year’s election dayCREIGH DEEDS is a farm boy turned country lawyer from the Alleghenies, in the south-west of Virginia. On a chilly night before this week’s gover (Read More)
The Economist:
The world agrees to pretend he won; not all Afghans suspend disbeliefBRINGING Afghanistan’s disastrous presidential election to a close, ten weeks after the voting, the chairman of the country’s Independent Election Commissio (Read More)
The Daily Pennsylvanian:
Although exactly one year has passed since the 2008 presidential election, political scientists are still busy examining the finer details of President Obama’s success. Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of Politics (Read More)
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Campaign 2008
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The Guardian:
More than half of United Nations employees to be moved to secure locations outside country for at least three weeksMore than half of United Nations staff in Afghanistan are to evacuate the country for safety reasons after the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Some 600 non-essential staffers will be moved to more secure locations while the body works to find safer permanent housingThe United Nations is temporarily relocating more than half its staff in Afghanistan following last we (Read More)
Huffington Post:
RICHMOND, Va. — Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door. She voted for Obama because she f (Read More)
FOXNews.com:
One of President Obama's top advisers said the goal of the administration in the 2010 midterm election is to re-energize independent voters who backed Obama during the 2008 presidential election. . (Read More)
The Phoenix PHLOG:
The angry spirits that supervise Boston politics tried to silence this election coverage. Between a T-Mobile outage that put me behind every writer in this city (or at least those who are smart enough to distrust Catherine Z (Read More)
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Campaign 2008
The Guardian:
Main election challenger says Afghanistan president was returned to power illegally and has no credibilityAbdullah Abdullah – Hamid Karzai's main challenger in Afghanistan's disputed presidential election – has ruled himself (Read More)
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