Latest News: “ Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – The Archbishop of Canterbury criticized the year old British coalition government on Wednesday in an editorial. Dr. Rowan Williams, the guest editor of the New Statesman magazine, wrote that Britons are afraid of the reforms in education, health and benefit systems [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Israel (TML) – As Egyptians debate the role of Islam in the post-Mubarak era and the West looks on nervously, a new poll shows that the vast majority of Egyptians supports a limited role for clerics and believe that their say in writing legislation should be restricted. Conducted [...]
Latest News: “ Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Talks between former North Carolina John Edwards and federal prosecutors are about to end, with the outcome either an indictmnent or a plea agreement, according to CNN. Edwards’ lawyer, former White House Counsel Greg Craig, was in the Tar Heel State [...]
Latest News: “ Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico (AHN) – The U.S. government has made preparations for a sudden mass migration of Cubans after the death of Fidel Castro, according to recently published WikiLeaks documents. The plan could include a coordinated effort with Mexico to use the U.S. [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Baghdad, Iraq David E. Miller – Khaled Al-Obaidi, until recently a leading candidate to be Iraq’s defense minister, was driving with his armed motorcade in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday when a powerful “sticky bomb” attached to his car exploded, injuring him and a bodyguard. Al-Obaidi [...]
Latest News: “ Anil Giri – AHN News Correspondent Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Nepal’s 3-year-old Constituent Assembly is scheduled to expire on Saturday. The assembly has a mandate to carve a new republic and legal framework. Political crisis is looming large in the Himalayan country as political parties have failed to reach an agreement on [...]
Latest News: “ AHN News Staff Bremen, Germany (AHN) – In a bid to attract young people to the country’s politics, a German city in Bremen has lowered the legal voting age to 16 years for the first time. The state elections witnessed Green candidate Karoline Linnert’s 16-year-old son, Johann Linnert, casting his ballot this [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Ramallah, Palestinian Territory (TML) – The person behind the “People Want to End the Division” Facebook page must have been celebrating two months ago ahead of planned rallies across the West Bank and Gaza Strip calling for Palestinian national unity. Almost 41,000 people promised to turnout and close [...]
Latest News: “ ProPublica Staff United States (ProPublica) – by Tracy Weber The week’s news about the sexual conduct of politically powerful men gives me a queasy feeling of déjà vu. As the French agonize over whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s star power quashed past allegations, I can respond cynically: Yes, that probably happened. But we should [...]
Latest News: “ The Media Line Staff Cairo, Egypt (TML) – There’s bloody sectarian violence, privatization deals are being rescinded, businessmen are being jailed and the prospects of short term economic growth remain dim. But even as the country is gripped by political and economic distress, foreign investors are taking a surprisingly positive view on [...]
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