(Reuters) – A top Chinese leader has promised “unprecedented” economic and societal reforms at the Communist Party’s much anticipated plenum meeting next month, state media reported on Saturday. Yu Zhengsheng, the fourth-ranked member in the elite Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party, said the closed-door meeting would “principally explore …
Recently, Republican Senator and future Presidential Timber Marco Rubio compared a speech by President Obama to that of a “left-wing 3rd world leader.” It’s not the first time Rubio has drawn upon the comparison. Last year, he described an Obama speech advocating the cloture of a small number of upper-bracket …
What’s behind the shocking suppression of free speech at U.S. political conventions and the London Games? Remember back when large public events were also the locus of large public protest? As we stare down the barrel of the Olympic Games and the two national political conventions this summer, it’s fair …
The basic premise of electoral politics is that it’s supposed to give your elected officials an incentive to do a good job. If they get into office and screw everything up, they’ll lose, and they know it, so they’ll at least try not to screw everything up. Right? Now, try …
Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is the target of sharp national criticism, including from leaders of her own party, for saying the wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. She’s coming off a failed presidential bid that took her far from her Minnesota district. …
The Scottish threat to Britain. IN APRIL 1945, there was a parliamentary by-election in Motherwell, a steel town east of Glasgow and a seemingly safe Labour seat. Since the day almost five years earlier when Winston Churchill formed the great all-party government that waged and won the war, there had …
(Reuters) – Impoverished North Korea is gearing up to experiment with agricultural and economic reforms after young leader Kim Jong-un and his powerful uncle purged the country’s top general for opposing change, a source with ties to both Pyongyang and Beijing said. The source added that the cabinet had created …
Rest stop stays open, judges rule MINEHEAD, England, July 20 (UPI) — A couple in England, claiming that a highway rest area turned their adjacent garden into a public urinal and a dumping ground, lost their case in court. John and Cherry Pusey of Minehead, Somerset, installed a camera on …
James Cusick joins the Democrat volunteers campaigning to mobilise the expat vote For John McCain’s 2008 London fundraiser it was the plush Spencer House in St James, once the home of Princess Diana’s ancestors. Four years on from Mr McCain’s defeat, the Republicans’ latest attempt to recapture the White House …
The head of the North Korean army has been relieved of all his duties, with state media citing “illness” as the reason for his departure. Analysts believe Ri Yong-ho has been replaced because he was becoming too powerful and that his sudden fall from power sends a “strong signal” to …
Thailand’s 84-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej has recovered from the slight bleeding around his brain, the royal palace said Friday, but would not be taking on any official business for some time. The king’s heartbeat and blood pressure had returned to normal following the incident, but doctors advised him to suspend …
BANGKOK — Thailand’s Constitutional Court eased growing political tensions on Friday when it ruled that legislators in Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s governing party could not rewrite the country’s Constitution but left a path open to revise the charter by sections. The court also rejected a complaint that lawmakers in the …