Oct 8th, 2012
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—Mitt Romney has never been a touchy feely kind of politician, a candidate willing to talk intimately about his personal life and past experiences as a way to connect with voters.
But with less than a month to go before Election Day, Romney has apparently made the calculation that he cannot win the presidency without opening up about his private world and proving to voters he’s not the...
Jul 10th, 2012
CAIRO (Reuters) – The People’s Assembly, the lower house of Egyptian Parliament dissolved by the military court decision, met Tuesday, suggesting an increase in tension between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (AFSC) and the newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi.
Minutes before the opening of the parliamentary session, the United States urged Egyptian political actors to dialogue to preserve the...
Jul 6th, 2012
The candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Enrique Peña Nieto is the winner of the presidential election on July 1 in Mexico with 38.21% of the vote, said the Federal Electoral Institute after partial recount of ballots on Friday.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, left), collects 31.59% of the votes, while Josefina Vazquez Mota’s National Action...
Jun 28th, 2012
WASHINGTON – It’s a huge political victory for Barack Obama, in just over four months of the November U.S. presidential. The Supreme Court of the United States has approved Thursday the bulk of its law on the generalization of the Medicare reform emblematic of its mandate, intended to provide health coverage to more than 30 million Americans who were uninsured.
This historic reform arouses fierce...
Jun 24th, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most Americans oppose President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform even though they strongly support most of its provisions, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Sunday, with the Supreme Court set to rule within days on whether the law should stand.
Fifty-six percent of people are against the healthcare overhaul and 44 percent favor it, according to the online poll conducted from Tuesday...
May 6th, 2012
Outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris voted in the second round of presidential elections who opposes the socialist Francois Hollande, reported local correspondent on Sunday.
The president and his wife Carla Bruni visited the polling station of La Fontaine High School located in the sixteenth arrondissement. Once there, M.Sarkozy took the time to greet his supporters gathered at the entrance to the...
May 2nd, 2012
On Wednesday Janos Ader, a member of the European Parliament, was elected president by the Hungarian parliament, Xinhua reported referring to a statement of parliamentarians.
The source said the new president was elected to parliament by 262 votes out of 386 possible, 40 deputies voted against.
Janos Ader’s candidacy was proposed on April 16 by Prime Minister Viktor Orban of the country.
The chairman of the...
Apr 28th, 2012
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) – On Friday the Republican candidate Mitt Romney continued to tackle the economic record of Barack Obama as it strives to highlight the inexperience of his rival national security.
During a speech in Ohio, a state of the “Rust Belt” (“rust belt”, in allusion to his declining industry), Mitt Romney has accused the outgoing president for trying to impose U.S....
