Secretary of State John Kerry walks to a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Monday, March 25, 2013. Kerry embarked on talks Monday with Karzai amid concerns Karzai may be jeopardizing progress in the war against extremism with his anti-American rhetoric. The session came shortly after the U.S. military…
A supporter of Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro leans against a tree under a poster of late President Hugo Chavez outside the national electoral council where Maduro registered his presidential candidacy in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2013. Presidential elections were announced to take place on April 14, after Maduro announced on March 5 that…
FILE - In this Monday, April 9, 2012 file photo, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Khairat el-Shater talks to reporters during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt. The head of Egypt's elections commission says 10 presidential hopefuls, including ex-spy chief, key Islamists, were disqualified from the race. Farouk Sultan, the head of the Supreme Presidential…
In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks during a televised program from the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday April 11, 2012. Chavez returned to Venezuela Wednesday night and said he's "doing well" following cancer treatment in Cuba. Chavez flew to Cuba last week for his third round…
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has added a new project to his increasing varied career after it was revealed that the entrepreneur has bought The New Republic and become its Publisher & Editor-in-Chief. In a letter to readers that was published on the TNR website, Hughes pledged to support long-form reporting during his tenure. Citing comments made by the…
The US Presidential race is heating up and, though Mitt Romney is reported to have narrowly won the Republican primary in Ohio, his rival Rick Santorum has won the Twitter equivilent. The 53 year old candidate set a new 2012 Election Twitter record in the process, charting close to 40,000 mentions on Twitter per hour at his…
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