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Mexico students plan protests as second presidential debate nears
World NowIt is looking more and more like a two-way race in Mexico's July 1 presidential election. That is, a contest between the PRI, Mexico's former ruling party, and everyone opposing its return.... -
Crowds in Mexico protest against leading presidential candidate
World NowMEXICO CITY -- Tens of thousands of protesters streamed through Mexico's capital and rallied at the Angel of Independence monument Sunday in another large demonstration against the country's mainstream media and the former ruling political party. The... -
West TV ad accentuates the positive
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Congressman Allen West, known as a rhetorical bomb-thrower, released his first TV ad on Monday and delivered a somewhat defiant but decidedly upbeat message. “Washington is broken. But we... -
Chinese village that blind activist escaped no longer on lockdown
World NowThe Times’ Barbara Demick recently reported on the surreal “virtual lockdown” of the Chinese village where blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng escaped. Weeks after Chen fled, his village and nearby ones were ringed by anywhere... -
Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage
24 FramesKirk Douglas has written a lively new memoir about one of his greatest triumphs. Titled “I Am Spartacus!” it recounts how Douglas helped break the midcentury anti-communist blacklist by secretly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write “Spartacus,&... -
Mexico's Vicente Fox irks allies by urging unity with old ruling party
World NowFormer Mexican President Vicente Fox angered his party by offering a near-endorsement of the presidential candidate of the once-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which Fox ousted in 2000.... -
Shanghai stock market closes with a spooky echo of Tiananmen Square
World NowWhether a cosmic joke or coincidence -- or as some wags suggested, an act of God -- the Shanghai stock market index fell 64.89 points on Monday, which happened to be June 4, the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at... -
China to foreign embassies: Stop publicly rating our air
World NowChina is reportedly telling foreign embassies to stop putting out their own readings on Chinese air pollution information. Though China didn't single out the United States, the demand appears to be aimed at the U.S. embassy, which puts out its own... -
Tiananmen activist found hanged in Chinese hospital room
World NowIn a tragic coda to the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a veteran activist was found hanged to death in a hospital room on Wednesday morning. Li Wangyang, 62, was a labor activist from Hunan province who led workers in sympathy protests... -
Mexico's PRI opens campaign office in Los Angeles
World NowImmigrants supporting Mexico's formerly long-ruling political party have opened a campaign office in the Los Angeles area for its 2012 presidential candidate, Enrique Peņa Nieto. The office, opened Thursday at a Mexico-themed mall in Lynwood, is an... -
Slight gains for left in Mexico's presidential election campaign
World NowWith Mexico's presidential election one month away, the leftist candidate is making modest gains while the incumbent party's contender has slipped, polls show. The polls thus far, however, do not alter the front-runner status of Enrique Peņa Nieto of... -
Mexico political party suspends former official in drug-money scandal
World NowMEXICO CITY -- The political party expected to win Mexico's upcoming presidential election sought Wednesday to distance itself from a former high-ranking official embroiled in a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scandal. Tomas Yarrington, a former...
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