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Aussie Labor lawmaker says party has lost election

YoopyaSep 7, 2013April 21, 20240

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A senior lawmaker in Australia’s ruling Labor Party said her party had lost the national election Saturday, backing analysts and exit

Syria overshadows economy as G20 leaders meet

YoopyaSep 5, 2013April 14, 20240

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — The threat of missiles over the Mediterranean is weighing on world leaders meeting on the shores of the Baltic this

Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence reports

YoopyaSep 5, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry’s public assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates

NYC mayoral candidate Weiner gets in spat caught on video

YoopyaSep 5, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Anthony Weiner, who has pressed on with his bid for New York City mayor despite seeing his lead in the polls vanish amid

As Obama pushes to punish Syria, lawmakers fear deep U.S. involvement

YoopyaSep 3, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to persuade the U.S. Congress to back his plan to attack Syria were met with skepticism on Monday from lawmakers in his own

Sister says Liz Cheney’s opposition to gay marriage ‘dead wrong’

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Mary Cheney, the younger daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney who married her long-time partner Heather Poe last year, chastised her older

Obama and aides confront skeptical Congress on Syria strike

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama and his top aides launched a full-scale political offensive on Sunday to persuade a skeptical Congress to approve a military

Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be

Once-brash Rice quietly builds Obama’s bridge to Congress on Syria

YoopyaAug 30, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Susan Rice is facing her first key test as President Barack Obama’s national security adviser as she helps lead a White House effort to convince

U.S. intelligence committees say they’re not properly consulted on Syria

YoopyaAug 29, 2013May 1, 20240

(Reuters) – U.S. congressional intelligence committee leaders believe the Obama administration has not properly consulted them as the president engages in final deliberations for possible