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Election Date: December 13, 2009 At stake: President, National Assembly Background Over the course of the past 25 years, Chile has been able to leave a brutal dictatorship behind to become Latin America’s fastest growing...
Election Date: December 6, 2009 At stake: President, National Assembly Background Over the past few decades, the landlocked South American nation has grappled with the issues of managing natural resources and balancing the...
Geography Area: 8,511,965 sq. km. (3,290,000 sq. mi.); slightly smaller than the U.S. Cities: Capital--Brasilia (pop. 2.5 million). Other cities--Sao Paulo (10.9 million), Rio de Janeiro (6.1 million), Belo Horizonte (2.4...
The Philippines on Tuesday (New York time) won a seat in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (Uncitral) in elections that took place some 35 years after it first served in that UN body, the Philippine...
Election Date: November 29, 2009 Background Equatorial Guinea is a coastal territory located between Cameroon and Gabon, which also includes the islands of Bioko and Annabon. Despite releasing many political prisoners during...
WASHINGTON -- European leaders pressed Congress and the White House on Tuesday to unite on a plan to combat global warming, even as a Republican boycott forced a delay of votes in a key Senate committee, demonstrating the deep...
European leaders pressed Congress and the White House on Tuesday to unite on a plan to combat global warming, even as a Republican boycott forced a delay of votes in a key Senate committee, demonstrating the deep partisan rift....
The Republic of the Philippines Capital: Manila Population: 98 million and unstoppable Type of Government: Republic; Trapiz (Trapos and Showbiz) Religion: Roman Catholicism; Christianity External Debt: 60 billion Language:...
Large numbers of British voters do not want to see either Tony Blair or David Miliband getting top European Union jobs, according to a new ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph. By Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor Tony Blair has...
In the heat of the 2005 Tory leadership campaign, when he was struggling as the underdog, David Cameron made a pledge which seemed relatively innocent to his team In the heat of the 2005 Tory leadership campaign, when he was...
