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The presidential spokesperson Mahama Ayariga has reacted to criticisms that the Mills administration is moving at a snail's pace saying, the perceived lull in the system is "a global affair and an international matter." "The slowdown in the economy is not a simple national affair, it's a global affair, [and] it's an international matter.

COMMENT: The Taliban mindset -By Dr Khalil Ahmad The fundamental rights of the citizens, which found a mention as far back as in 1928 in the Nehru Report, remained a chimera in Pakistan until the lawyers' movement brought them to the streets in 2007 In order to secure constitutional protection for the Muslims of the subcontinent, the Muslim League ...

Associated Press U.S. Army soldiers, assigned to a bomb clearance unit, patrol the area where insurgents blew up a bridge in Wardak province, Afghanistan, on Monday.

Afghan officials hope President Barack Obama's address on Afghanistan won't be weighted too heavily on an exit strategy -- even though that's the message many Americans and Democrats in Congress want to hear.

Andrew Sullivan has a blog post comparing the Indian and U.S. political situations today , citing an anonymous reader.

Celebrating success: Congress corporators led by Minister Danam Nagender taking out a victory rally through Nampally.

Bob Mould playing 2 nights at City Winery, Miles Benjamin Robinson on tour Bob Mould @ ATP NY in September Just Out: Being a gay artist living in DC, one of your continuing legacy, would seem that to put you under a political umbrella with so many civil rights and marriage equality issues being introduced into Congress right now.

Setting his eyes clearly on Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi has begun the groundwork to wrest power.

While most of the health care discussion revolves around coverage, the real issue is cost.

Nurses are the latest group of angry public sector workers to vote for industrial action over threatened Government cuts.

"This story line will go away." First of all, that headline is garbage. As USA Today points out, he's not just a writer, he's Obama's former campaign manager.

You may remember the frenzy whipped up by our media when it was revealed that U.S. auto industry executives had flown private jets to testify before Congress in search of federal aid.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen has dismissed calls to safeguard dole payments and protect the unemployed from vicious Budget cuts.

I was told I'm being too hard on our current President and his administration, not to mention judging Jimmy Carter as being not particularly outstanding as a president.

If you thought Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., couldn't tick off any more liberals than he did earlier this week, well, you thought wrong.

Rep. Michele Bachmann has a new plan to stop the Democrat's health care reform bill: Get all of her followers to drive to the Capitol and march through the halls of the House office buildings.

It just keeps getting better. Forget Dancing with the Stars: real entertainment these days comes from watching the so-called GOP imploding before our eyes.

That Joe Lieberman, what's his deal lately? The former Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate lost the Democratic primary for his Connecticut Senate seat in 2006, only to win the general election.

Sounding more like an independent than a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. , tells ABC News he will campaign for some Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and may not seek the Democratic Senate nomination when he runs for re-election in 2012.

The Yes Men's Web site describes what the group does as 'impersonating big-time criminals to publicly humiliate them.' On Monday, the Yes Men, a group of public advocacy pranksters, garnered national attention by pulling a doozy of a practical joke on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.