2010年12月19日星期日

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Yahoo! News: Elections


End of year action restores Obama luster (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 04:53 PM PST

From the wreckage of the mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama, pictured on December 17, preaching pragmatism and bi-partisanship, is engineering a political rebound and reinvigorating his administration.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AFP - From the wreckage of the mid-term elections, US President Barack Obama, preaching pragmatism and bi-partisanship, is engineering a political rebound and reinvigorating his administration.


Belarus puts down anti-Lukashenko election protest (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 04:38 PM PST

A protester lies on the ground as riot police clashed with demonstrators during an opposition rally in Minsk. Belarus police Monday arrested hundreds of protestors including four opposition candidates as they used force to break up a mass demonstration against the expected re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in disputed polls.(AFP/Viktor Drachev)AFP - Belarus police Monday arrested hundreds of protestors including four opposition candidates as they used force to break up a mass demonstration against the expected re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in disputed polls.


McConnell to vote against treaty with Russians (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 04:22 PM PST

In this Dec. 19, 2010, photo provided by ABC, 'This Week' host Christiane Amanpour, left interviews Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., center, and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., on the repeal of the 'don’t ask, don’t tell' policy on gays in the military, and the Start Treaty at the ABC studio in Washington. Kerry, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said he believes they have the votes to ratify the treaty this year. Lugar, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee and one who supports ratification of the treaty, said more amendments needed to be heard. (AP Photo/ABC, Fred Watkins)  NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES.AP - The Senate's Republican leader said Sunday he would oppose a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, complicating President Barack Obama's drive to secure a foreign policy victory in the final days of the postelection Congress. Senior Democrats still expressed confidence the Senate would ratify the accord and pushed for a showdown vote early this week.


Crackdown in Belarus as Alexander Lukashenko heads for win (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:43 PM PST

Supporters carry presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyayev to his campaign headquarters after he was beaten during a rally in Minsk, December 19, 2010. REUTERS/Julia DarashkevichReuters - Police in Belarus beat demonstrators with batons and rounded up opposition leaders in a violent crackdown after an election on Sunday that was certain to return President Alexander Lukashenko for a fourth term.


Obama lobbies regional leaders as Sudan vote looms (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:45 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama, who has pushed Sudan over an upcoming referendum and the crisis in Darfur, has written to leaders in the region stressing U.S. commitment to a peaceful vote, the White House said on Sunday.

US orders embassy staff out of Ivory Coast (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:00 PM PST

A general view of the US Embassy in Abidjan in 2005. The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency staff to leave Ivory Coast and warned Americans not to travel to the West African country, which is in the grip of growing post-election violence.(AFP/File/Kampbel)AFP - The United States on Sunday ordered non-emergency staff to leave Ivory Coast and warned Americans not to travel to the West African country, which is in the grip of growing post-election violence.


UN warns of death squad killings in Ivory Coast (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:58 PM PST

A supporter of would-be president Alassane Ouattara holds a placard bearing the inscription AFP - The United Nations said Sunday that at least 50 people have been killed in Ivory Coast's post-election crisis, amid reports of "massive" human rights abuses, and refused to withdraw its peacekeepers.


Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 12:54 PM PST

Undocumented UCLA student Leslie Perez, 22, weeps while watching a televised debate of the Dream Act in the Senate at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center in Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Perez is an undocumented student at UCLA. The Dream Act would give provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)AP - Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, hunger strikes and sit-ins, a group of college students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of legislation.


France, U.N. reject Gbagbo demand to quit Ivory Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:27 PM PST

A soldier sitting on a truck holds up a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) during a rally by supporters of Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo in Yopougon, Abidjan December 18, 2010. REUTERS/Luc GnagoReuters - France joined the United Nations on Sunday in rejecting a demand by Laurent Gbagbo to quit Ivory Coast and stepped up calls for him to stand down as president after a disputed poll or face sanctions.


Analysis: Adjustments needed after 'don't ask, don't tell' (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:45 AM PST

Cassandra Melnikow, foreground left, and her sister Victoria Melnikow,  right, sit in New York's Times Square as news of the Senate approving the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' is displayed outside ABC Television's Times Square studios Saturday Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)ContributorNetwork - ANALYSIS | Following the lead of the House, the Senate voted on Saturday to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law that required gay servicemen to hide their sexual orientation in order to serve in the military. The bill is expected to be signed into law by President Obama.


More than 50 dead in Ivory Coast unrest: UN rights chief (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:22 AM PST

A supporter of would-be president Alassane Ouattara holds a placard bearing the inscription AFP - Post-election violence in Ivory Coast has left more than 50 people dead and more than 200 injured, the UN high commissioner for human rights said Sunday, deploring "massive violations of human rights."


Ending tax breaks for the wealthy a 2012 goal: Biden (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:21 AM PST

President Barack Obama walks off the podium in front of Vice President Joe Biden after delivering a statement on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, December 16, 2010. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - The Obama administration will be better positioned to fight the extension of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans when they are set to expire in two years, Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday.


New population count may complicate Obama 2012 bid (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:21 AM PST

Graphic shows possible changes in U.S. House seats based on projected 2010 apportionmentAP - The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections.


Iraq's Allawi says he will join Maliki government (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 08:05 AM PST

Iyad Allawi, former prime minister and head of the secular Iraqiya coalition, speaks during a joint news conference with Speaker of Parliament Ayad al-Samarai (not in picture), in Baghdad October 7, 2010. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, whose Sunni-backed coalition won the most seats in Iraq's March election, ended weeks of wavering on Sunday and said he would join a new government to be unveiled on Monday.


Biden: No veto threat on spending bill with pork (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 06:03 AM PST

AP - Vice President Joe Biden says President Barack Obama would sign a congressional spending measure even if contains lawmakers' pet projects.

Gay US soldiers must still hold fire on sexuality (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 11:35 AM PST

A man wears a shirt that read AFP - US lawmakers have voted to allow gays to serve openly in the military for the first time, but troops must wait months before they can reveal their sexual orientation without facing dismissal.


Polls open in Belarus presidential election (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 10:48 PM PST

A woman feeds pigeons near an election poster in Minsk. Polls opened Sunday in Belarus' presidential election setting incumbent fourth-term candidate Alexander Lukashenko against an array of nine opposition candidates, state television said(AFP/Viktor Drachev)AFP - Polls opened Sunday in Belarus' presidential election setting incumbent fourth-term candidate Alexander Lukashenko against an array of nine opposition candidates, state television said.


Celebrity Reaction to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal (ContributorNetwork)

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 07:25 PM PST

ContributorNetwork - The Senate lifted the ban on openly gay service members on Saturday. By a vote of 65-31, the Senate ended "don't ask, don't tell," and the bill now goes to President Obama for his signature.

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