Rodolfo Torre Cantu, a gubernatorial candidate for the major Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) party, was killed by gunmen on Monday morning, police said. Local officials said an armed group, believed to be drug hitmen, attacked Cantu approximately 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) from the Soto la Marina highway as he was on his way to an [...]
US President Barack Obama’s pick to fill a second US Supreme Court vacancy, Elena Kagan, faces her first confirmation hearing on Monday amid political tensions rubbed raw by looming elections. “It is a highly charged partisan environment. We are a few months from an election. There is going to be enormous pressure, political pressure, to [...]
BANGKOK — Tens of thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Thailand’s capital Sunday to press their demand that the government dissolve Parliament or face massive demonstrations at key sites in the city. The protesters — many from the impoverished northeast and north — want Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call new elections, which they believe [...]
About 80,000 anti-government protesters have converged in the streets of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. Royal Thai Police say the number of red shirts, supporters of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, is expected to reach at least 100,000, with more protesters arriving every hour.
KIRKUK, Iraq — Election posters in Arabic and Kurdish plaster nearly every wall here. Honking carloads of cheering young men wave Kurdish flags of green, red and white stripes and a yellow sun. Blue and white-crescent flags of the Turkman party hang over some streets. Cell phones ring with pre-paid campaign text messages. At night, [...]
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