John McCain last night capped a resurgent week for his presidential campaign with a forceful and combative performance in the first televised debate among the 10 Republican contenders.
Mr McCain, who according to new polls has bounced back from a lackluster start and now leads his major rivals in the key early primary states of Iowa, […]
Condoleezza Rice intimated a softening of the Bush Administration’s stance towards Syria today when she met the country’s Foreign Minister on the sidelines of a conference called to discuss the rebuilding of Iraq.
The US Secretary of State ducked into a private meeting with Walid al-Moualem on the first day of the two-day conference, at which […]
The Turkish Prime Minister announced last night that he would seek legislative elections as early as next month after the country’s top court annulled a parliamentary vote to elect the next president.
As the country’s crisis deepened, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also proposed a reform package, including presidential elections by popular vote, that could change the face […]
Ehud Olmert’s days as Israeli Prime Minister appeared numbered last night as he faced growing pressure to quit, even from within his own party, as the political fallout from the conflict in Lebanon deepened.
Tzipi Livni, the Foreign Minister and Mr Olmert’s second in command, was reported as saying that the Prime Minister should resign after […]
President Bush used his veto pen for only the second time Tuesday after Congress sent him a war spending bill that would impose timelines to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq, which he called a “prescription for chaos.â€
The bill is unacceptable because it “subtitutes the opinions of politicians for the judgments of our military commanders,†the […]
WASHINGTON — In a move that is no surprise to anyone, President Bush on Tuesday issued the second veto of his administration, setting up a new battle with congressional Democrats over a war spending bill to fund troops in Iraq that also sets a timetable for withdrawal.
Bush was addressing the nation late Tuesday […]
On the anniversary of one of the president’s most infamous episodes of political theater, Congress and the White House prepared to upstage one another today in a showdown over the Iraq funding bill, which mandates U.S. troop withdrawal as an attempt to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war.
On the four-year anniversary of […]
(CBS/AP) President Bush vetoed legislation to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq Tuesday night in a historic showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.
In only the second veto of his presidency, Bush rejected legislation that would require the first U.S. combat troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by […]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Prime Minister, has appealed for national unity in a television address tonight. The speech was recorded on Saturday, a day after the army threatened to intervene in the presidential poll process.
The Turkish stock market plunged 8 per cent this morning and the Turkish lira lost 4 per cent of its […]
CARACAS, Venezuela, April 29 — Faced with allegations of government ties to paramilitary death squads and criticism from prominent Democrats, President Ãlvaro Uribe of Colombia is heading to Washington this week to try to unlock frozen American aid and salvage a trade agreement with the United States.
It is not clear whether Mr. Uribe will succeed, […]
