The People's Party and its leader, Mariano Rajoy, unseated the governing Socialist Party on Sunday in a resounding victory for the conservative leader who has promised to tackle an economic crisis that is threatening to bankrupt Spain. Forty-six million Spaniards are going to wage a battle against the [economic] crisis," he told cheering supporters from a balcony outside his party's headquarters in Madrid.
Today's question: What do you think about the suggestion from Memphis City Schools board member Kenneth Whalum Jr. that the board should seek to appoint a black man as the new school superintendent? I definitely agree with Pastor Whalum. The absolute majority of the children in trouble in the Memphis City Schools are little black boys, who are on a fast track to becoming troubled black men.
On the night of Oct. 19, militants from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) staged a terrorist attack against the Turkish armed forces, killing 24 and wounding 18 servicemen. The four-hour assault took place in eight remote locations in the Yuksekova and Cukurca districts of the Hakkari province of Turkey, near its border with Iraq. The PKK is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, Turkey and other nations. Since the 1980s, more than 30,000 people have been killed in terrorist attacks launched by the PKK against Turkey. While it claims to represent interests of Turkey's Kurdish-speaking minority, the PKK's separatist claims, compounded by its terrorist agenda, have been strongly rejected by the absolute majority of Turkish Kurds. The latter have been...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - President Mikhail Saakashvili appeared poised for an election victory on Saturday, according to early exit poll results in this former Soviet republic where the former hero of democracy now faces accusations of authoritarian leanings. An exit poll showed President Mikhail Saakashvili winning Saturday's election with 53.8 percent. He needs an absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff election in two weeks. The exit poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
DENVER, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is the first of a two-part statement by J. Moromisato A Government by the Super-Rich for the Super-Rich: How They Did It
ATHENS, Greece - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote in parliament early Wednesday, winning a gamble on his government's survival and the danger of a devastating debt default. Papandreou won more than the absolute majority of 151 votes he needed in the 300-member legislature to face down an internal party revolt and help him pass deeply disliked austerity measures that have provoked strikes, protests and a slump in his popularity.
This friction between the Baker camp and the [Dick Cheney] camp surfaced as soon as [Bush] declared his clear intentions of invading Iraq. But Bush had been pushed by the Saudi royals and the pro-Israel lobby to attack Iraq and de-throne Saddam Hussein. The Saudi monarchy invested all of its assets in the Bush camp and he needed their help to beat the Democrats. Subsequently, they were rewarded immensely by skyrocketing oil prices that quadrupled their revenues. The Democrats have a grudge and a bone to pick with the Saudi royals. The Democratic leadership is now evading the question of Iraq and pointing to the highly anticipated Baker-Hamilton report, due out next month, as the first benchmark. They are reluctant to inherit the mess of Iraq in much the same way that Bush has now become...
... handed the power to give Democrats the absolute majority in the Senate. He will be the most powerf...
This week Senator [Barack Obama] continued his historic march towards the Democratic nomination; he won the Oregon primary and said that he now has the majority of elected delegates. According to his campaign report, "The polls are closed in Kentucky and votes are being counted in Oregon, and it's clear that tonight we have reached a major milestone on this journey. We have won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the people in this Democratic primary process." Despite Senator Hiliary Clinton's win in Kentucky, the Obama camp now seems to be targeting Senator John McCain, the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party and an extension of the Bush administration. A recent report claims that it was evident that Obama knows how to run a campaign, but does he know how to win...
TBILISI, Georgia - President Mikhail Saakashvili headed for victory in Saturday's election, according to an exit poll in this former Soviet republic where he is fighting accusations of authoritarian tendencies four years after coming to power as a hero of democracy. The exit poll showed Saakashvili winning 53.8 percent of the vote. But the poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points - casting doubt on whether the president would hang onto the absolute majority needed to avoid a runoff.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI has changed the rules for electing a new pope, returning to the traditional requirement that two-thirds of the cardinals in the conclave agree on a candidate, the Vatican said Tuesday. Pope John Paul II had altered the voting process in 1996, allowing the pope to be chosen by an absolute majority if the cardinals were unable to agree after several days of balloting in which a two-thirds majority was needed.
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