The iron grip of the two main parties on America’s presidential politics looks safe at least for another four years after an attempt to generate a bi-partisan third party movement fell at the first hurdle. Americans Elect announced that despite $35m raised and more than 400,000 online delegates gathered, no candidate had attracted sufficient support [...]
May 17 2012 | Posted in
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Washington: Targeting on the “nexus of crime and terrorism” in South Asia, the US has designated underworld don Dawood Ibrahim`s two top aides Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon as key drug traffickers and slapped sanctions on them. The US Department of the Treasury`s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 57-year-old Chhota Shakeel and 52-year-old [...]
May 16 2012 | Posted in
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As if becoming the first black president wasn’t momentous enough, Barack Obama has just been handed a new title: “First gay president.” A Newsweek magazine cover bestowed that distinction on Obama this weekwith a picture of the president and a rainbow halo. If you view that as a naked attempt to grab your attention, capitalize on the [...]
May 15 2012 | Posted in
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After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first gained wide public recognition in the mid-1950s, he made a special request to evangelist Billy Graham. King was poised to join Graham on one of his barnstorming crusades, but he would do so only on one condition. He asked Graham to publicly speak out against segregation, a [...]
May 14 2012 | Posted in
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Like many black Americans, Dorsey Jackson does not believe in gay marriage, but he wasn’t disillusioned when Barack Obama became the first president to support it. The windows of his suburban Philadelphia barbershop still display an “Obama 2012″ placard and another that reads “We’ve Got His Back.” If Obama needs to endorse same-sex marriage to be re-elected, said [...]
May 12 2012 | Posted in
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In the wake of US President Barack Obama’s historic endorsement of gay marriage in a TV interview Wednesday, France24.com checked in with analysts, activists and voters across the political spectrum. Here’s a selection of their reactions. It is a bold move for President Obama to endorse gay marriage….It shows political courage on [his] part and [...]
May 11 2012 | Posted in
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A day after North Carolina became the latest state to approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, opponents of the referendum are beginning Wednesday to explore their next options. North Carolina voted Tuesday to outlaw same-sex marriage, which was already prohibited in the state. Supporters pushed for the [...]
May 10 2012 | Posted in
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Washington: US President Barack Obama on Thursday publicly endorsed same sex marriage, putting an end to days of speculation about his “evolving views” on the problem. In an interview “Good Morning America” to be aired on Thursday, Barack Obama said his views on the problem have progressed now and he thinks that “same-sex couples should [...]
May 10 2012 | Posted in
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US President Barack Obama warned against “turning back the clock” by handing Republican challenger Mitt Romney a victory in November at his first official re-election rally on Saturday in the key swing state of Ohio. President Barack Obama said Saturday the United States had suffered too much pain to turn the economy over to Republican [...]
May 9 2012 | Posted in
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In a video released on Sunday by al-Qaida, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless PresidentBarack Obama agrees to the militant group’s demands. “My life is in your hands, Mr. President,” Weinstein said in the video. “If you accept the demands, I live; if you don’t accept the demands, then I die.” Weinstein was abducted [...]
May 7 2012 | Posted in
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