Posted by uspostWorldThursday, November 11th, 2010
President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak failed to reach agreement on a free-trade accord as the two nations wrangled over automobile and beef imports to Asia’s fourth-biggest economy. Talks will resume after the Group of 20 meeting in Seoul, where world leaders are at odds over how to avoid trade [...]
Pope Benedict XVI defended religion from critics Sunday as he dedicated the Sagrada Familia church, a still-unfinished emblem of the Spanish city of Barcelona. “This is the great task before us: to show everyone that God is a God of peace not of violence, of freedom not of coercion, of harmony not of discord,” he [...]
The Senate will continue trying this week to break a partisan logjam over a major package of tax changes and safety-net spending, including added unemployment benefits. The Senate’s inability to advance the bill is a sign that the partisan discord in this highly competitive mid-term election year is causing legislative paralysis.