CHICAGO, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary in a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership role in the world. ... > full story
CARACAS, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — President Hugo Chavez launched a new campaign on Monday to change Venezuela's constitution so he can stay in power for as long as he keeps winning elections, almost exactly a year after voters rejected the proposal. ... > full story
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Oil plunged more than 9 percent to $49 a barrel on Monday after OPEC deferred a decision on new supply cuts at a meeting over the weekend. ... > full story
CHICAGO, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — President-Elect Barack Obama will unveil his national security team at a news conference in Chicago on Monday, expected to include Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Iraq's government tried to quell criticism on Sunday of a security pact which sets deadlines for U.S. military withdrawals, saying opponents could wait to judge how Washington honors commitments to pull back its troops. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Senior members of Iraq's ruling Shi'ite-led coalition on Wednesday said they had no problem with Sunni demands for a referendum in 2009 on a security pact with Washington. ... > full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2008 (Reuters) — Russia is still failing to meet its ceasefire obligations with Georgia and Washington's European allies must not overlook this and rush to embrace Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. ... > full story
CARACAS, Nov. 24, 2008 (Reuters) — Venezuela's growing opposition and President Hugo Chavez's left-wing party shared the spoils from weekend elections, jostling for political advantage in the oil-producing nation on Monday. ... > full story
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday he would call for elections in 2009 if his secular Fatah movement and its Islamist rivals Hamas do not reconcile by the end of this year. ... > full story
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Chavez tries to extend term limits Dec. 1, 2008 (Al Jazeera) — Hugo Chavez has said that he is directing his United Socialist party (PSUV) to seek a constitutional amendment that would allow him to be ...
Sunni bloc demands concessions to support Iraqi-US pact Nov. 25, 2008 (NBC 10 Rochester (KTTC)) — A key group of Sunni lawmakers in Iraq says it will back the Iraqi-US security pact, but only in return for a series of concessions.. . Among other ...
Prince Gets Sued, "Misquoted," Surprises Q-Tip Nov. 18, 2008 (Paste Magazine) — Prince has stirred up quite a bit of Controversy lately, and with no albums or tours on the docket for the Purple One, we can only credit the ...
Norman Fried Nov. 18, 2008 (Encyclopedia Britannica) — Social and religious conservatives celebrated last week the passage of measures that ban same-sex marriage in California, Arizona and Florida; and ...
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