Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said flatly that the opposition parties in the upcoming February 18th election must accept the outcome results and not to resort to any agitation should the election not go their way. He also asserted the elections will be free and fair.
“They should not be under any illusion that they will […]
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Barack Obama can now lay claim to the most amount of delegates in the democratic primary with his sweep of the 3 primaries today. He now has the money, the momentum, (and secretly) the media on his side as they begin their second draft stories on the demise […]
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In the truncated primary schedule of 2008, the fortunes of candidates can change in an instant. A little over a month after winning New Hampshire and looking to big victories in February, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is suddenly looking to make a dramatic last stand. Come March 4th, Clinton supporters are now saying that she must win both […]
This weekend, Barack Obama took out the broom. He finished off his weekend sweep with a strong win in the Maine caucuses. With 87% reporting, Obama is up 59% to 41% in a state that Clinton lead in polling last month.
Earlier today it was announced that the Clinton campaign has removed the […]
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The Awami National Party, a Pashtun nationalist group based in Pakistan’s North West Frontier, was hosting an election rally today when a bomb exploded near the stage. There are reports of at least 15 dead, although that number is expected to climb.
The leader of the Awami National Party, Afrasiab Khattak, who was addressing the rally […]
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been in Kenya for several weeks in an attempt to broker a peace agreement between the government and the opposition party - the source of the violence that has now killed over 1,000 people and threatened to destabilize one of Africa’s more stable nations. Annan is in search […]
More than 1,000 people have died and 304,000 people been displaced in Kenya’s post-election crisis, the local Red Cross said.
“As of yesterday, we have over 1,000 people (dead) including the latest killings in Kisii, Migori and other places over the weekend,” Kenya Red Cross spokesman Tony Mwangi said. The figure of 304,000 refugees did not […]
Super Tuesday was supposed to be a decisive day for both parties, the great national primary that would catapult a clear front runner for both parties, and more likely than not, end the 2008 primary season. It did not happen that way.
Although on the Republican side John McCain won the most states and has the […]
In politics as in sports, predictions often leave the prognosticators with egg on their face. While most experts predicted the New England Patriots would rout the Giants (with a nod to Keith Olbermann and a few others who actually made the right call), the Giants prevailed in one of the greatest Super bowls of all […]
A peace agreement is in place, but in Kenya the killing continues. In the western part of the nation machete-wielding tribal gangs roamed, torching homes and hunting each other down.
Since Kenya’s own forces seem incapable (or to some, unwilling) to stop the violence, ODM leader Raila Odinga called for peacekeepers in Kenya when he […]