The Constitutional Court of Ukraine has canceled 2004 constitutional reform yesterday. The final and unchallengeable decision was announced yesterday by the Head of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine Anatoliy Holovin. With the decision coming into force Ukraine reestablishes the presidential-parliamentary republic according to the initial version of the Constitution adopted in 1996. The hearings on [...]
Oct 2 2010 | Posted in
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President Barack Obama is celebrating his 49th birthday today. He will spend his birthday without his wife and his daughters, as Michelle Obama is vacationing in Marbella, Spain with daughter Sasha. The other daughter of the President, Malia, is away in a summer camp. The President’s birthday schedule won’t be that busy. First, he will [...]
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Barack Obama, the President of the USA, has signed into law the most sweeping financial reform since the great depression. This reform, says president Obama, has been made with one thought in mind – to protect the citizen, as he interacts with the financial system. He said that a consumer watchdog will be the one [...]
Jul 21 2010 | Posted in
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Small people, that’s what BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg thinks the people who live in the Gulf area are, according to speech in which he apologizes to the American people. The oil boss also apologized to president Obama during their meeting, but the President seemed unimpressed as he informed Svanberg that BP will have to create [...]
Jun 17 2010 | Posted in
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12 people have died and over 120 were injured in a series of riots in the city of Osh in the Southern part of Kyrgyzstan. Witnesses have reported hearing gunfire in the country’s second largest city, and seeing men armed with guns, stones and sticks smashing windows and set cars on fire in the city’s [...]
Jun 11 2010 | Posted in
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Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ex-International Olympic Committee President, has passed away today at age 89 in a Barcelona hospital, his death being caused by a cardiac arrest. He was admitted in the hospital a few days ago, suffering, according to hospital staff, of a serious heart condition. Samaranch was the president of the IOC to have [...]
Apr 21 2010 | Posted in
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82.7 percent of Americans support a presidential veto of legislation containing unnecessary Congressional spending The Council for Retirement Security (CRS), a program of the nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots citizens organization Our Generation, has released a survey that found that 82.7 percent of respondents support a presidential veto to prevent Congress from spending money from the Social [...]
Feb 24 2010 | Posted in
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Presidential Tag-Team Will Help Keep the World Focused on Haiti The U.S. Fund for UNICEF today applauded the joint efforts of President Obama and Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in ensuring that the American response to the crisis in Haiti is sustained over the long-term. “On behalf of Haiti’s children, we applaud [...]
Government States New Model Will Offer Profitable Opportunities for Foreign Operators While Promoting Responsible Development of the Brazilian Economy Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a new development model for the exploration and production of petroleum in Brazil’s offshore “pre-salt” region, which includes the largest oil discovery in the Americas in three decades [...]
Even as the global economic crisis consumes President Obama’s attention — and the nation’s resources — he still must focus on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and the situation in Pakistan. The new Brookings Institution Press book Budgeting for Hard Power: Defense and Security Spending Under Barack Obama (June 2009) analyzes the competing demands [...]