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By Llazar Semini Associated Press Writer / July 4, 2009 TIRANA, Albania—Albania's opposition Socialists charged Saturday that the ruling Democrats were improperly trying to influence the country's lengthy vote count by declaring victory before all ballots from last week's national election were tallied. Albania joined NATO in April and has been under intense international pressure to ensure the June 28 vote was free of the fraud that marred the first six elections held after the Balkan country's communist regime fell in 1990. But the Socialists threatened to hold street protests after election authorities declared late Friday that Prime Minister Sali Berisha's Democrats had won enough seats to form a government. The country's electoral commission is re-counting ballots from some polling stations following... [read full story]
Al-Zuhoor, Iraq (AFP) Nov 25, 2009 - Squeezed between a rubbish dump and a dry riverbed, Al-Zuhoor has no clean water or electricity and the gypsies who live here are at the margins of the new, ultra-conservative Iraq.
Labour should prepare for a possible hung parliament by forming a partnership of principle with the Liberal Democrats magine it is the afternoon of Friday 7 May next year. Labour has lost its majority but, as the result of a...
Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan, would do well to heed the words of the ancient Chinese general. McChrystal is a lead member of the counter-insurgency (or "Coin") brigade that now dominates the...
Like most big retail stores, Banana Republic is hiring seasonal workers for the holidays. But CBS 5 has learned that 39 of the freshly-hired employees at the Grant Avenue store are from outside the country.
