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Mali Top Diplomat Against the Presence of Peacekeeping Forces in Mali

While François Hollande was briefing the U.S Vice President Joe Biden on the current situation in Mali during a luncheon, the Malian Minister of foreign Affairs Tieman Coulibaly, was speaking to a group of students and analysts and french meida … read more »

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Petraeus Scandal Means Media Can No Longer Ignore Benghazi

By Rick Esenberg The bar for scandals has been getting pretty high. When I was a kid, a president was forced from office because he tried to cover up illegal behavior by his subordinates. As Nixon put it, “mistakes were … read more »

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Factbox: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden

(Reuters) – Joe Biden spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, served four years as Barack Obama’s vice president and twice ran unsuccessfully for president. His chatty, off-the-cuff nature led to some memorable gaffes. Here are some key facts about … read more »

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Venezuelan Elections: It’s Either Chávez Or Washington

By Adrian Salbuchi This Sunday’s elections will pit incumbent President Hugo Chávez Frías against neoliberal pro-US opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski. Opinion polls vary widely both ways, proof it will be a head-to-head race. ­This election is not only of … read more »

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Obama sets high goals for a second term

CHARLOTTE – President Obama spoke of tough choices on a difficult path that “leads to a better place” for the nation Thursday as he claimed the Democratic nomination, asked for more time to solve America’s continuing economic problems and set … read more »

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Biden’s Bumper Sticker Moment: Bin Laden Dead, GM Alive

By: Jim Kouri During a Labor Day campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, Vice President Joe Biden gave his own answer to the question “are you better off today than four years ago?” Biden yelled: “I’ve got a little bumper sticker … read more »

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The Real Racists

In 2008, Barack Obama won 95 percent of the black vote. Now, blacks voted in large percentages for Democrats long before that, of course, largely because of Democratic devotion to huge spending on social programs. But Obama’s election was unique. … read more »

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Obama supports same-sex marriage

US President Barack Obama has ended months of equivocation on the issue of gay marriage by saying he thinks same-sex couples should be able to wed. He told ABC News: “It is important for me to go ahead and affirm … read more »

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Crowing about Bin Laden’s death

By Doyle McManus When Obama wants to commemorate an act of military valour, he should keep America’s presidential poll politics out of the mix An ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 66 per cent of adults say the war has … read more »

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As race shifts, Biden gets task of scuffing Romney

Want a peek inside the Democratic playbook as the presidential race shifts fully into general election mode? Just listen to Joe Biden. In the past few weeks, the Democratic vice president has branded presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney “consistently wrong,” … read more »

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The Real War on Women: Baby Girls in Peril

Never mind the phony “war on women” contraception controversy concocted by the Left to help get President Obama re-elected. There is a real gender war being launched against females around the world, as documented in a provocative article titled “The … read more »

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Somali refugees pack capital after rebels quit

Thousands of Somali refugees, fleeing famine and years of violence, streamed into Mogadishu on Monday searching for food after Islamist rebels withdrew from the capital. The al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab insurgents began pulling their fighters out of Mogadishu over the … read more »

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Famine: ‘Hundreds of thousands of kids could die’

Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden … read more »

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Jill Biden in E. Africa to visit famine refugees

The wife of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Kenya to focus attention on the famine in East Africa. Jill Biden on Monday is visiting the world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab, where tens of thousands of Somali famine refugees … read more »

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Obama is dead – Fox News Twitter account declares

Fox News’s Twitter account has been hacked by activists, who have used it to declare President Barack Obama dead. In a morbid hoax, hackers managed to break into the conservative broadcaster’s Twitter feed before attempting to spread news that Obama … read more »

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US vice president meets with Kenyan PM

Washington – Vice President Joe Biden met at the White House with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday for talks on change in Kenya, Sudan and Somalia. Biden “lauded historic steps taken by the Kenyan people to bring change … read more »

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Egypt’s govt resists mounting pressure

Cairo – The Egyptian government resisted growing pressure on Thursday from key ally the United States and from a still energetic popular protest movement, both demanding radical and immediate political change. Growing concern among the business community and the wider … read more »

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