Queen Elizabeth II of Britain visited the UN Headquarters in New York, July 6, and addressed the United Nations General Assembly to spearhead the international response to global dangers and promote prosperity and dignity for all the world’s inhabitants. This is her first visit after five decades. The 84-year-old monarch, who was last in the [...]
Julia Gillard is the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia after former PM Kevin Rudd stepped down as Labor Party leader, avoiding a ballot he was certain to lose. Gillard, the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, won the election unopposed. Rudd initially said he would challege Gillard at the election. However, he resigned as leader [...]
President Barack Obama heads to the Gulf of Mexico next week for a fourth visit as Washington prepared for a series of hearings Wednesday on the widening scope of the oil disaster. The oil spill remains high on the president’s agenda, as political fallout grows over the worst man-made environmental disaster in US history, with [...]
After canvassing the votes from the May 10 polls for nearly three weeks, the Philippine Congress on Wednesday finally proclaimed Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as the country’s next president and Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay as the vice president. No one from the Senate and the House of Representatives objected when Congress leaders moved [...]
WASHINGTON – A bruising Republican primary race for the South Carolina gubernatorial nomination was headed toward a runoff election Tuesday night after Nikki Haley, who is trying to become the state’s first female chief executive, overcame accusations of marital infidelity. She will compete with U.S. Representative Gresham Barrett. The Associated Press projected that Ms. Haley, [...]
It was eight years ago when a seemed dubious campaign was set by then president George Bush to eradicate the Taliban and Al Qaeda all together. The popularity of Afghan war became very apparent when air strikes were ordered and bombs descended to the streets of Kabul, Jalalabad and Kandahar. But who would have ever [...]
President Obama will be on his second trip this week and the third visit in the last 45 days over at the BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig which just recently has a terrible environmental disaster. The White House says Obama will asses the latest efforts to counter the massive oil spill and will finalize how to [...]