Following the Iowa caucuses, the focus of the U.S. presidential campaign will shift to the next state to hold its nominating contest, the northeastern state of New Hampshire. Polls show that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney holds a commanding lead among Republicans in the January 10 contest, with more than 40 percent support, averaging 22 […]
New Hamphire Next State to Hold Nominating Contest
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 10:40 pm (UTC-5)
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Obama Rallies Supporters in Iowa
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 10:20 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama is urging his supporters to fight for him in the 2012 presidential campaign, as they did to get him elected in 2008. President Obama spoke from Washington in a video teleconference to attendees at the Iowa caucuses. Iowa is holding Republican and Democratic Party caucuses Tuesday, the first nominating contests in […]
Romney, Paul, Santorum Lead in Iowa Caucuses
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 10:20 pm (UTC-5)
Social conservative Rick Santorum, anti-war advocate Ron Paul, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are virtually tied in early vote counting in the U.S. state of Iowa, in the first nominating contest of the 2012 presidential election. Only 13 percent of the votes have been counted, and so far the race is going as expected. […]
Romney, Paul, Santorum Lead in Iowa Caucuses
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 10:10 pm (UTC-5)
Social conservative Rick Santorum, anti-war advocate Ron Paul, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney are virtually tied in early vote counting in the U.S. state of Iowa, in the first nominating contest of the 2012 presidential election. Only a tiny percentage of votes have been counted, but so far the race is going as expected. […]
US Official: Logistics Challenges to Ship Military Equipment Out of Afghanistan ‘Enormous’
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 9:25 pm (UTC-5)
NATO military planners in Afghanistan are trying to figure out how to remove $30 billion worth of military equipment from the mountainous, landlocked country by the end of 2014, when coalition troops are to end their combat mission. A senior U.S. official said Tuesday the logistics challenges are enormous. He said the operation requires the […]
Iowa Casts Votes in First US Presidential Nominating Contest
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 9:05 pm (UTC-5)
Voters in the central U.S. state of Iowa are making their choices for president Tuesday, in the first nominating contest of the 2012 presidential election. Residents are braving the winter cold to cast their votes at party caucus meetings, which opened Tuesday evening . Candidates have been furiously campaigning in Iowa and they made last-minute […]
US Denounces Syria Violence, Calls for UN Action
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 8:40 pm (UTC-5)
The United States has condemned Syria’s continued violence against anti-government protesters, saying it is “past time” for the U.N. Security Council to act against the bloody crackdown. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that Washington is working with its international partners to increase pressure on Syria to stop what he called the country’s “completely […]
High Level US Diplomat Begins Asia Tour
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 8:35 pm (UTC-5)
Senior U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell has arrived in China, the first stop on a four-day tour that will also take him to South Korea and Japan. Campbell, the assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific affairs, made no comments on arrival at the airport in Beijing Tuesday, but the State Department had said […]
New Hamphire Next State to Hold Nominating Contest
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 8:10 pm (UTC-5)
Following the Iowa caucuses, the focus of the U.S. presidential campaign will shift to the next state to hold its nominating contest, the northeastern state of New Hampshire. Polls show that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney holds a commanding lead among Republicans in the January 10 contest, with more than 40 percent support, averaging 22 […]
4 Killed in NW Pakistan
Posted January 3rd, 2012 at 8:10 pm (UTC-5)
Two separate bomb blasts in Pakistan’s northwest near the border with Afghanistan killed at least four people Tuesday. Local officials said the first bomb exploded in the city of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing one person and wounding at least four others. A second bomb at a busy market in the Landi […]
