KABUL (AP) — Afghan presidential challenger Abdullah Abdullah announced Sunday he would not participate in next weekend’s runoff election but stopped short of calling on his supporters to boycott the balloting.
Abdullah also said the Afghan people should not accept results of an election from the current election commission and told supporters President Hamid Karzai’s [...]
The Guardian:
Somali pirate ransoms ‘could fund terrorists’
Nato adviser criticises government for not fully investigating whether pay-off would fund Islamist groups including al-Qaida
A senior Nato adviser on piracy has criticised the government for failing to investigate adequately whether ransom payments to Somali pirates fund Islamist groups including al-Qaida.
Lord Jopling, who also wrote a report into money [...]
The Washington Post:
GOP chairman casts Tuesday’s elections as signs of both a GOP comeback and his good management.
As they campaigned together across Virginia on Thursday and Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele praised Robert F. McDonnell, the state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate, as an innovative leader.
McDonnell was just as enthusiastic.
“Thank you to my largest [...]
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President Obama… this morning you went to welcome home 18 Fallen men. You watched as their flag draped caskets were walked solemnly from the plane. You saluted and I assume you looked into the eyes of their families. I hope you listened to their words. I hope you asked about [...]
JACKSON, Ohio (AP) - Police say a 4-year-old boy in southern Ohio shot his babysitter because the sitter accidentally stepped on his foot.
Police said 18-year-old Nathan Beavers and several other teenagers were babysitting several young children in a mobile home in Jackson on Sunday when the shooting occurred.
Witnesses told police the 4-year-old retrieved the [...]
DALLAS (AP) — A Muslim doctor interviewing for a job at a suburban Dallas medical clinic says officials there told her she couldn’t wear her headscarf while working.
Dr. Hena Zaki of Plano said Friday that she was shocked when CareNow officials told her in person and later by e-mail that a no-hat policy [...]
NBC:
A miniature donkey was stolen from a Sunnyvale couple when thieves made off with their pickup truck and trailer in a Mesquite parking lot Tuesday.
Ed and Angela Preston said Red Sunset, or Sunny, as he likes to be called, was stolen from the Town East Mall while they were eating.
“The 18-wheeler had a flat, so [...]
Politico:
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) has been served with a lawsuit alleging he failed to pay a $20,000 “win bonus” to a Minnesota advertising firm that worked for his campaign last year, POLITICO has learned.
The lawsuit stems from a disagreement between the Grayson campaign and North Woods Advertising, a firm that has worked for politicians including [...]
Fox News:
Republican state Assemblywoman Dierdre Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for upstate New York’s 23rd Congressional seat, leaving Democratic nominee Bill Owens and Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in the race that will conclude Tuesday.
The move comes on the heels of a new poll that showed Scozzafava had fallen behind her two competitors in [...]
