15 December 2011 Last updated at 00:29 GMT Disagreement over payroll tax cuts is the latest impasse to hit Washington in recent months Senate Republicans are rejecting calls for a quick vote on a payroll tax cut bill that passed the House on Tuesday. The House bill would tie an extension of the tax break [...]
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December 15, 2011
December 15, 2011
House of Representatives passes $662bn defence bill
The House of Representatives has passed a $662bn defence bill after the White House dropped a veto threat over provisions regarding the handling of terror suspects. The vote on Wednesday evening was 283 to 136. In a closed-door meeting, conservative Republicans had expressed some concerns over the provisions, fearing an expanded role for the military [...]
December 14, 2011
‘Kommersant’ Firings Over Russian Election
The owner of Russia’s Kommersant Publishing has fired an editor and a senior manager over what he described as a breach of ethics for its coverage of alleged voting fraud during parliamentary elections earlier this month. Alisher Usmanov criticized the Kommersant Vlast weekly magazine, saying its coverage of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party [...]
December 14, 2011
Medvedev Announces First Session of Russia’s New Duma
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced the first session of the country’s newly elected parliament, despite protests against alleged fraud during parliamentary elections earlier this month. Medvedev on Tuesday told a meeting of the leaders of parties that won seats in the State Duma, or lower house, that the first session will be held December [...]
December 13, 2011
East Congo Opposition to Protest Kabila Election
Opposition leaders in eastern Congo are planning to protest the disputed re-election of President Joseph Kabila beginning Tuesday morning. And while organizers say the protests will be peaceful, some opposition supporters say they fear rallies will spark violence. Protesters around the world, and in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, have been holding rallies since before the [...]
December 9, 2011
Kabila Named Winner of DRC Election; Tshisekedi Rejects Results
Electoral officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say President Joseph Kabila has won re-election in a vote marred by violence and delays. Our correspondent reports from Kinshasa that the president’s leading opponent is rejecting those results and says he is the country’s new president. Supporters of President Kabila cheered his re-election outside the headquarters [...]
December 9, 2011
Pro-Romney Iowa ads hit Gingrich
9 December 2011 Last updated at 03:08 GMT Newt Gingrich now leads opinion polls by a wide margin in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida A group supporting Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is beginning a $3.1m (£2m) ad campaign with an Iowa attack on chief rival and new front-runner Newt Gingrich. The campaign comes after [...]
December 9, 2011
Congo Election Results Delayed Again
Election officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have again delayed the results of presidential and legislative elections. Opposition supporters are rejecting partial returns that show President Joseph Kabila heading for reelection. Electoral Commission head Daniel Ngoy-Mulunda says results will be postponed for a third day because officials have not completed comparing vote totals sent [...]
December 9, 2011
VIDEO: Russian vote re-run ‘unlikely’
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Sunday’s Russian parliamentary election was marred by fraud and has called for a re-run. His comments come after a third day of protests, with people taking to the streets of Moscow to express their discontent. To discuss the impact, the BBC’s Jane O’Brien was joined by Andrew Kuchins [...]
December 8, 2011
Congo Voters Await Final Results From Presidential Election
Electoral officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo are expected to release complete results of presidential and legislative voting Thursday. Opposition supporters are rejecting partial returns that show President Joseph Kabila heading for re-election. When these results were first expected Tuesday, Congolese security was out in force. Shops were closed. The streets of the capital [...]
December 8, 2011
Putin Accuses US of Provoking Unrest
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is lashing out at the United States, accusing Washington of riling up the opposition. Putin said Thursday that remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “gave a signal” to his opponents. Clinton said Tuesday that Russia’s parliamentary elections were neither free nor fair, and that the results raised “serious [...]
December 8, 2011
Republican candidates appeal to pro-Israel vote at coalition forum
Republican presidential candidates made a prolonged pitch for the pro-Israel vote on Wednesday with calls for regime change in Iran and even hints at military action. Newt Gingrich, the leading Republican contender who holds a double digit lead in three of the first four states to hold nomination contests, backed his hawkish position by announcing [...]
December 7, 2011
Egypt’s Islamists Compete for Votes in Runoff Elections
Egypt is holding a second day of runoff elections for the national parliament, with rival Islamist parties engaging in increasingly heated competition for votes in the country’s two largest cities and seven other provinces. Voting for the 52 individual seats in Cairo, Alexandria and the other provinces began Monday and was due to end Tuesday. [...]
December 7, 2011
Protests over Russian Elections Spread to More Cities
Russia’s ruling party won only half of the votes in elections on Sunday. But opponents say even that poor showing was boosted by widespread fraud. Now they are protesting. Protests against Sunday’s Duma elections are spreading across Russia. On Tuesday, the interior ministry flooded downtown Moscow with dozens of prison trucks and as many as [...]