Haiti on Tuesday began two days of remembrance ceremonies in honour of the thousands of people who died in an earthquake a year ago.
Flexing their political muscle, US Republicans have promised a string of investigations into Barack Obama’s administration.
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Former US president Bill Clinton was recovering well on Thursday from a successful procedure to open a blocked artery in his heart.
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/ 8 February 2010
Bill Clinton faced an excruciating trial for his extramarital affairs. <i>Verashni Pillay</i> wonders whether we will be as exacting with our president?
Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday with two American journalists, having secured their release in a meeting with the hermit state’s leader.
Former US president Bill Clinton made a surprise visit to North Korea on Tuesday to try to win the release of two jailed American journalists.
Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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/ 22 January 2009
Joint Special Award — Drivers of Change Government Award: The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in Mauritius.
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/ 14 January 2009
In less than a week’s time Malia and Sasha Obama will move into one of the world’s most coveted residences, thrust back into the global spotlight.
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/ 3 December 2008
Former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday praised the team president-elect Barack Obama has assembled.
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/ 30 October 2008
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama buried the hatchet and joined forces on Wednesday to deliver a rousing call for change six days from the US election.
Bill Clinton did brilliantly what other Democrats had failed to do — make the case for President Barack Obama, writes Jonathan Freedland.
With startling chutzpah, Republicans are again casting the opponent as out of touch. Democrats shouldn’t play the game.
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
The 2008 US presidential elections are playing out in the glow of an internet that has come of age, and the impact was always certain to be profound.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton end their historic Democratic presidential battle on Tuesday with two nominating contests that could help Obama clinch the nomination and push Clinton from the race. Obama is within about 40 delegates of the 2 118 he needs to capture the nomination.
Democrat Barack Obama stood on the brink of history on Tuesday, within reach of becoming America’s first black presidential nominee after a twisting, emotional and divisive battle with Hillary Clinton. As voters in the last two states, Montana and South Dakota, wrapped up the gruelling nominating marathon, Clinton faced the demise of her own quest.
Hillary Clinton mentioned the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in explaining on Friday why she had resisted calls to end her White House bid, drawing a rebuke from Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s campaign. Clinton, who later expressed regret over the remark, made it to the editorial board of theSioux Falls Argus Leader.
Democratic party officials disclosed on Thursday that Barack Obama has sanctioned a hunt for a vice-presidential candidate, a further sign that he regards the battle with Hillary Clinton as being over. Time magazine, in a report in its next issue, quotes a friend of Bill Clinton saying he wants his wife to be the vice-presidential candidate.
Veteran rockers Queen, along with Razorlight and Simple Minds, will top the bill at an Aids benefit concert in London next month to mark Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, organisers announced on Tuesday. Precisely 46Â 664 tickets will go on sale for the three-hour gig in Hyde Park on June 27, which is in support of the former South African president’s 46664 campaign against HIV/Aids.
Barack Obama was showing signs of campaign fatigue. Sitting on a picnic bench in a park on Pagoda Street, Indianapolis, in discussion with a group of 30 supporters, he told a story about the ”modest” background of himself and his wife, Michelle. And 10 minutes later, seemingly having forgotten, he told them it all again.
Robert Kagan, author, essayist, former diplomat, pre-eminent thinker of what is called ”neoconservatism” — and now foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential nominee John McCain — would like it to be known that there are many things that he is not.
A single phone call prompted United States pop star Madonna to begin charity work in Malawi, and it was while making a documentary on the African country’s one million orphans that she found a baby she decided to adopt. I Am Because We Are premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday night set the seal on a new phase in Britain’s special relationship with the United States when he won ringing endorsements from the present and future generations of American leaders. US President George Bush hailed Brown as a ”good friend”.
Tax returns released by former first couple Hillary and Bill Clinton revealed they earned -million over eight years, and questions were raised on Saturday about the sources of much of their wealth. Analysts and media focused on the -million Bill Clinton earned for speaking engagements.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton sought to shore up support among black voters on Friday in the city where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr was slain 40 years ago. Democrat Barack Obama honoured King’s legacy with a speech in Indiana, while his rivals attended activities in Memphis.
Forty years after Martin Luther King Jr was shot to death, the civil rights leader is still roiling American politics. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain have both come to Memphis to mark King’s April 4 1968, death and try to shore up support among black voters.
Bertie Ahern will step down as Ireland’s Prime Minister on May 6, bowing to pressure for him to go early following a series of embarrassing appearances in the witness stand at an anti-corruption tribunal. Ahern, flanked by his Cabinet colleagues, announced his intention to resign to reporters in Dublin.
United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced increasing odds on Monday as a new opinion poll showed rival Barack Obama consolidating his nationwide support. A Gallup tracking survey indicated the Illinois senator extending his lead over Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% versus 42%, Obama’s largest lead of the year so far.
Hillary Clinton vowed on Saturday night to continue her battle for the party’s presidential nomination amid increasing pressure from senior Democrats for her to quit the race. Speaking to a cheering crowd at an Indianapolis high school, she said it was important to give everyone a chance to have their voices heard.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday declared the birth of an Anglo-French axis as a force for progress in Europe and the world, on issues ranging from climate change and nuclear power to United Nations reform and the war in Afghanistan.
One may wind up as the first woman to lead the United States Senate. Another is relatively young and could run again for president. The third may simply resume his role as a congressional maverick and retire in two years. These are among the options that await the losers in the three-way race for the White House.