Several amendments that proposed public insurance options to the health care reform bill currently in markup in the Senate Finance Committee went down in flames Tuesday.
06/20/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: health insurance, lawmakers
France will sell Russia a warship it wants to buy if the two countries reach a political agreement, the French foreign minister said on Thursday.
06/17/2008
— Filed under: Russia
Tags: agreement, France, warship
Ireland’s pro-European mainstream fears being sucked back into Britain’s orbit if voters reject Europe’s Lisbon treaty for a second time on Friday.
06/7/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: European parliament, Ireland, Lisbon treaty
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will decide on Thursday on Georgia’s motion to deprive Russia of voting rights over the last year’s conflict in South Ossetia.
06/6/2008
— Filed under: Russia, World
Tags: EU, Russia, South Ossetia
In an unprecedented effort to reach out to illegal immigrants, the U.S. government will spend $26 million dollars to send Spanish-language census questionnaires directly to homes for the first time in the decennial count’s history.
05/20/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: illegal immigrants, U.S.
Legislation to triple aid to Pakistan and stem the tide of radicalism and anti-Americanism in that Asian nation cleared Congress on Wednesday and moved to President Obama for his signature.
05/10/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: aid, Congress, Pakistan
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is on a rare visit to Washington, D.C,. Senior administration officials briefing reporters tonight said the administration had received a request yesterday to see if Mottaki could come, and they agreed.
05/5/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: Manouchehr Mottaki, visit, Washington
Germany’s electorate has spared the nation the specter of stalemate that loomed over the political horizon for many weeks. The center-right coalition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats has a clear mandate and, after four years of a grand coalition, politics will return to the more normal cut-and-thrust between the two major ideological camps.
04/19/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: coalition, Germany, reform
Downing Street says the prime minister is «open-minded» about whether more UK troops are needed in Afghanistan.
04/11/2008
— Filed under: Ukraine
Tags: Afghanistan, equipment, UK troops
The Supreme Court could ignite a vigorous new fight over state and local gun controls across the nation when it rules on a challenge to Chicago’s handgun ban.
03/26/2008
— Filed under: World
Tags: guns, laws, Supreme Court
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