Poll: Public pleased with post-election Obama

"More than a month after his November victory, President-elect Barack Obama is enjoying a larger post-election honeymoon with the American public than his recent predecessors did, according to the latest NBC...

Palin won't 'close doors' on Political future

The Republican Governors Association's two-day meeting included some of the party's rising stars and some of the likeliest candidates for the 2012 presidential election. But the main topic of the annual meeting...

Obama 'to curb role of lobbyists'

Even before Barack Obama has formally taken over the Presidency of the US, he has given indication of  reversal of many of President Bush's actions and executive orders. President elect's office has also come...

Sarah Palin hopes God will 'show her the door' to the White House

"Barack Obama hasn't even been inaugurated as president and Sarah Palin is already weighing up her chances of running against him in four years time.In what Fox News is billing as Palin's first post-election...

Be a poll worker and save American democracy by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Concerned that the votes will be counted for 2008? Journalists and election integrity activists Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman of Free Press recommend volunteering as a poll worker (I am), and other ways to help make the election more transparent and accountable,...

'Plot' delays Tsvangirai's return to Zimbabwe

MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is delaying his return to Zimbabwe in light of threats against him as the runoff election day looms.""We have received information from a credible source concerning a planned...

G8 calls for release of Zimbabwe poll results

The results of the presidential election are still undeclared more than two weeks after the vote, and tensions are mounting." HARARE (AFP) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight major...

Kenya MPs urged to back agreement

MPs are being pushed to accept a law that would share power between president Mwai Kibaki and make opposition party leader Raila Odinga Prime Minister in a power-sharing deal."Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki has...

U.S. wants Kenya solution "yesterday"

" U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Kenya's feuding parties on Monday to hurry up with a pact to end a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people and dented their nation's global status. "The time for a political settlement was yesterday," Rice said...

Violence Erupts in Kenya After MP Murdered, Power Outages Across Countinent

Adding to tensions already stretched to the breaking point and beyond, a second Opposition member of Parliament was killed today by a police officer. Despite police insistence that the murder was not...

France's New, Nouveau Riche President

The man has done it in record time. Days even before getting into office, French President Elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, drew heavy criticism over accepting an invitation for a stay aboard a billionaire's yacht before...

closeSign in to NowPublic

is reporting from