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• Protests around the world to mark Suu Kyi birthday

  - 2009-06-18

  YANGON AFP — Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has marked a grim 64th birthday in prison, as activists took to the Internet and planned worldwide protests to press the military junta to free her. Famous names including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, footballer David Beckham and US actors...

• The political Gang

  - 2009-01-24

  Byline: By ANDREW BALDWIN Feature Writer THEY became known as the Gang of Four. It was on January 25, 1981 that four former Labour Cabinet ministers called a news conference to reveal their intention to set up a new political party. David Owen, Shirley...

• For many, drinking less is a New Year's resolution

  - 2009-01-01

  For some, those New Year's resolutions are fading about as fast as the Jan. 1 hangover. Others are sticking to their guns. The top choices among Americans for remodeling their lives revolve around weight, money and bad habits, according to the U.S. government's Web site, www.usa.gov. Quitting...

• A political calling: faith is a driving force in public life

  - 2008-11-01

  "IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN less about politics and more about service," said Jane Pitfield. "For me, it was about the message. I'm speaking up for people who have concerns that need to be heard." Pitfield ran for mayor of Toronto in 2006, and served for eight years previously as a...

• Japanese editorial excerpts -3-

  - 2008-10-06

  TOKYO, Oct. 4 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press: LOWER HOUSE ELECTION (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Oct. 3) Prime Minister Taro Aso's recent remarks indicate he is having second thoughts about dissolving the Lower...

• Central banks launch $300 billion assault on credit crisis

  - 2008-09-18

  NEW YORK AFP — Central banks around the world on Thursday threw more than 300 billion dollars into the fight against the credit crisis as speculation grew over Wall Street legend Morgan Stanley and a top British bank was forced into a merger. The US Federal Reserve led...

• The Embassy Dance

  - 2008-08-15

  One sure sign that the Jewish vote is in play in the upcoming presidential election: Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate, has come out for relocating the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He told an interviewer recently that the move should take place "right away,"...

• ‘Look, I Am My Husband’s Best Friend’

  - 2008-06-30

  Cindy McCain talks about long-distance marriage, dirty politics and calls from her son in Iraq. While her husband has been in Washington, Cindy McCain has been carving out a life of her own: last week she was in Vietnam to do charity work with Operation Smile. She paused...

• Ulster didn't fight for right

  - 2008-06-21

  Sir: For 30 years the Protestant people and culture of Ulster sought British help as the IRA tried to destroy them both. For 30 years mainland Britain defended, subsidised, protected, supported, guarded and upheld the Protestant community, politically called the Ulster Unionists. The overwhelming majority of that support came from...

• Dems introduce bill targeting political calls

  - 2008-04-19

  WASHINGTON -- Call them robocalls, phone spam or "personalized educational artificial intelligence" -- as one political consultant said in defending them. Many people call them one big annoyance -- a bombardment of automated calls during campaign season. Sure, Bill Clinton or Scarlett Johansson may be "calling"...