Obama : “The Best Is Yet To Come”

Barack Obama Re-elected US President After Winning Against Mitt Romney Barack Obama has been re-elected President of the United States after scoring victory against Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday night (6 November). Projections suggest Obama will win the critical swing state of Ohio, putting him over the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the presidency. […]

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Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands as debt-wracked country finally forms a coalition government…

    Greece is Hoping to have an effective government after the last set of elections has hopefully ended the political stalemate.    Long lines form as people desperately seeking food handouts from Crete’s farmers wait their turn.   Greek citizens desperate for food queued around the block for free food handouts yesterday as the country’s politicians managed […]

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Will Thailand’s New Leader Hurt or Heal a Divided Nation?

With barely more than a month under her belt as a professional politician, Yingluck Shinawatra stood poised Monday to become Thailand’s first woman prime minister after her Pheu Thai party scored a resounding victory in Sunday’s national elections. Riding a well-oiled political machine and benefiting from the popularity of her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed as prime minister in a 2006 military coup, Yingluck and her party won an apparent majority in parliament according to unofficial election returns.

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Why the Economic Recovery Is Slowing Down

John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most famous practitioners of the high-minded guessing game known as economics, once noted that in the dismal science, “the majority is always wrong.” How else to explain the fact that so many economists upgraded their growth forecasts for the American economy at the end of last year, often to well above 3%, when the numbers so far this year have come in below 2%? The plunge is due to many things, from higher food and oil prices to supply-chain disruptions in the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster to a terrible housing market.

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Russia: What Mediating in Libya Could Cost Medvedev

On April 5, a little-known Russian Senator and diplomat, Mikhail Margelov, published an article called “The Arab World Is Changing,” in which he argued that Russia is well-placed to act as mediator in the war in Libya, but it should think hard about the political risks. “We have too much going on in our own country,” he wrote

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Thailand: Thaksin Picks Sister for Prime Minister Race

On the one-year anniversary of a bloody confrontation between Red Shirt protesters and Thai government security forces that left scores dead and Bangkok in flames, the opposition Pheu Thai party listed 10 Red Shirt leaders among its candidates for parliament in national elections scheduled for July 3.

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