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NDP Leader Jack Layton says he hopes the new session of Parliament strikes a more conciliatory tone.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, received a courtesy phone call from President-elect Barack Obama, who said he would work for peace, a Palestinian official said Wednesday.
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Speaking at a traditional Christmas midnight mass in Bethlehem, the head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land called for silence to overcome the sound of gunfire even as violence flared between Hamas and Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.
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DAYTON, Ohio -- Democrat Barack Obama told Ohio voters Thursday that Republican John McCain's mortgage buyout plan would cost them billions of dollars and reward bad behavior by lenders.
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Down, down, down goes the tone of this campaign. This evening, WLS AM 890 weekly program host Tom Roeser referred derisively to Barack Obama as the "boy wonder." And one of his regular guest panelists, wild-swinging Chicago-area conservative activist Charlie...
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The Democrat presidential candidate proposed and economic recovery plan Monday, while his Republican opponent issued veiled but stinging criticism of the Bush administration.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama proposed more immediate steps Monday to heal the nation's ailing economy including a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs....
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It's one of the few things on which he and John McCain can agree.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama and John McCain will both pursue the image of a strong leader in troublesome economic times as they meet Wednesday night for their third and final presidential debate....
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DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) -- The race is over as far as Ireland's biggest bookmaker is concerned....
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Republicans launched an enormous wave of phone calls Thursday blasting Sen. Barack Obama for "having worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers," party sources said.
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The Obama campaign announced Friday that it is asking Attorney General Michael Mukasey to turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy.
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Even if Thailand's current political confrontation is resolved, the underlying social and political tensions seem likely to continue.
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Democratic candidate Barack Obama makes a push for early voters, two weeks before the US presidential election.
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Didcot Town manager Stuart Peace says he wants his squad players to push his first 11 for a place in the team.
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The Speaker of Somalia's transitional federal parliament has called on anti-government guerrilla groups to join the ongoing peace process.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on China and oil-rich Gulf states to help the International Monetary Fund deal with the fallout of the credit crisis.
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A rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo whose forces are advancing on the eastern city of Goma declares a ceasefire.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., did a live interview with Radio Mambi in Miami this morning in which he went after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for his connections to a “PLO spokesman.” McCain was referring to Rashid Khalidi, who, five years...
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace talks during a visit of the Middle East next week despite the recognition that there is little chance of a deal this year, diplomats said Thursday.
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ASHKELON, Israel (AP) -- Bettina Goering ran away from home at 13, lived on a promiscuous commune in India and later fled to the U.S. and had herself sterilized. It was all part of an attempt to escape the legacy of her last name....
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House Republican leader John Boehner uttered what the Associated Press called "a vulgar expression" Wednesday while discussing Barack Obama's voting record in Illinois. While campaigning for John McCain, Boehner said Obama's failure to vote yes or no 129 times while a state lawmaker - opting instead to vote "present" - meant he was a "chickens---." Boehner said that quality was the last thing America needed in a president. "The point that Boehner was making was that Barack Obama has consistently avoided making tough decisions and taking tough votes, and voters need to know that," Boehner spokesman Jessica Towhey told AP. She said the Republican wasn't actually calling Obama the term, which Boehner used while speaking to about 100 people in Ohio, mostly Republican college students. Obama voted present about 3.5 percent of the time as a state senator. "In Congress we have a red button, a green button and a yellow button, all right. Green means 'yes,' 'red' means no, and 'yellow' means you're a chickens---, ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- House Republican leader John Boehner has used a vulgar expression to refer to Democrat Barack Obama and his voting record in the Illinois legislature....
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Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean opposition leader currently negotiating a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe, called for the creation of a truth commission to examine atrocities in the country dating back to the 1980s.
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Karl "Permanent Republican Majority" Rove is wrong quite often -- remember "the math" in 2006? -- so Obama supporters should take his final map with that in mind. That said, it seems not insignificant that Rove writes: "The final Rove...
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Barack Obama has done it. On Tuesday, Americans elected their first black president -- and a genuine intellectual. It is the crowning of one of the most rapid political rises ever, but the real work is only now set to begin.
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WASHINGTON - With Republican John McCain’s loss in the race for the White House and dwindling ranks in the House of Representatives and Senate, there will be an extensive debate within the Republican party about who will become their leader. Will McCain seek to retain a leadership role in the party? Or, as some political analysts [...]
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"CBS News RAW": Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice congratulated President-Elect Barack Obama on his "extraordinary" win, saying that all Americans can feel justifiably proud.
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Barack Obama's election victory represents a "triumph of the American story" that fulfilled a dream for millions of people and made every American proud, U.S. President George W. Bush said in a congratulatory speech Wednesday.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began a tour of the Middle East on Wednesday as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for future Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as the US administration faces its final months in office.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election win - the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution....
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offers his congratulations to Barack Obama on his US presidential win.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began a tour of the Middle East on Wednesday as part of an effort to lay the groundwork for future Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as the US administration faces its final months in office.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election win - the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Bush administration has conceded that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is no longer possible by the end of its term and is preparing to hand the fragile, unfinished U.S.-backed peace effort to President-elect Obama....
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Italy's famously impolitic Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi described U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday as "young, handsome and even tanned."...
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sent an unusual letter congratulating Barack Obama for his victory in the American presidential race.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sent an unusual letter congratulating Barack Obama for his victory in the American presidential race.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sent an unusual letter congratulating Barack Obama for his victory in the American presidential race.
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