There were no vacant seats in the Appellate Court yesterday when the three appeal judges, Chief Justice Hugh Rawlins, Justice Ola Mae Edwards and Justice Janice George Creque took their seats and commenced hearing arguments for the appellants in the Consolidated Election Petitions Case....read more

President René Préval has rejected as “unacceptable” a proposal by a top Republican senator in the United States that he negotiate with the international community to revamp Haiti's nine-member electoral council....read more

While the United States and Europe fret over huge deficits and threats to a fragile recovery, this region has a surprise in store. Latin America, beset in the past by debt defaults, currency devaluations and the need for bailouts from rich countries, is experiencing robust economic growth that is the ...read more

Since Iraq’s parliamentary elections in March, killers in this violent northern city have stalked members of the Iraqiya Party, which won the most seats, part of a nationwide outbreak of violence directed at officials and other civic leaders....read more

Two people have died and 15 other were injured during a traffic accident in Kwakwani, Berbice River, south of here....read more

Ailing Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson is not expected to join his regional counterparts in Jamaica this weekend for the annual Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government summit....read more

Syrian security officials have detained 400 people suspected of links to the Kurdish separatist group PKK, the state-run Anatolian news agency reported on Thursday....read more

St Lucia’s Opposition Leader, Dr Kenny Anthony, has been carded as the keynote speaker at an event to commemorate the second anniversary of the Tillman Thomas administration. ...read more

Lindsey Graham was sitting in a sedan early one morning and contentedly discussing the various fellow South Carolina conservatives who dislike him...read more

As General David H. Petraeus takes command in Afghanistan, the two top American civilian officials in the war face an uncertain and tricky future, working with a newly empowered military leader, under the gaze of an impatient president who has put them on notice that his fractious war ...read more