iflove Archive for the 'World Politics' Category

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on Thursday accepted a request from President Barack Obama to raise funds for Haiti earthquake victims.

As the scope of the devastation from a magnitude-7.0 earthquake became clearer Wednesday, survivors spoke in terms of all that has disappeared.

Earthquake made Haiti face trying time. Thousands of injured people waited for care outside badly damaged hospitals.

The Czech Republic is continuing to segregate Roma children into sub-standard schools for the mentally disabled. Discrimination in the school system still exists.

Italy will open one of the world’s first prisons for transgender prisoners. The prison is expected to house inmates who mainly have convictions for drug-related offences and prostitution.

Game Change Book Excerpt: Bill Clinton Furious, angered the liberal icon by belittling Obama. A much-awaited book reports that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had a strained relationship during the campaign.

Gov. Luis Francisco Cuellar was kidnapped Monday and killed by alleged rebels. At the end of a day of anguish and frustration, President Alvaro Uribe soberly told Colombians that kidnappers had slit the throat of a southern governor during the country’s first major political abduction since he took office in 2002.

Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel tells New York not to fear health care reform – he’ll safeguard state. Everyone crying that health care reform will bleed New York dry should calm down, says Rep. Charles Rangel — he is going to get us a better deal.

Sweden declared the Copenhagen altitude change acme as a “disaster” and a “great failure” on Tuesday, advanced of a affair of European Union ambiance ministers to altercate how to accomplishment the process.

Brooke Astor’s 85-year-old son Marshall was punished. He is going up the river for one to three years. Whether he comes back is anybody’s guess.