HUNTSVILLE, Ontario – After failing to resolve their differences on economic strategy, world leaders are turning their attention to grappling with some of the globe's toughest foreign policy problems.President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight countries meeting in Canada were to open their second day of talks Saturday focused on nuclear standoffs with Iran and North Korea
A young Frenchman accused of hacking into US President Barack Obama's Twitter account insisted at his trial on Thursday that he had done so for the common good.Francois Cousteix, 23, who surfed the web at his home in the central region of Auvergne under the moniker Hacker-Croll, faces a two-year jail term for illegally accessing the account on the micro-blogging service. I did it for preventive r
Who can forget the kind of jerk you knew in high school and college, the one who comes quickly to mind when you read about General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone.In teenage movies he's usually portrayed as a strutting, arrogant, misogynist football player.Always a white guy, he's almost always rich too.Powerful daddies produce these kinds of sons by the truck full.Now, I don't know McChrysta
LONDON – Prime Minister David Cameron says a British general is temporarily taking charge of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan following the ouster of American Gen.Stanley McChrystal.President Barack Obama accepted McChrystal's resignation Wednesday and nominated Gen.David Petraeus to replace him.The prime minister said the British deputy commander of ISAF, Lt.Gen.Nick Parker, has assumed comm
Sarah Palin's Twitter account has been rich fodder this week for those of us who enjoy that lazy summer pasttime of rolling our eyes at ex-half-governors who believe they have something to add to the national discourse via social media.Her latest is a petulant, 9th grade, hand-on-hip screed directed at Barack Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel.You can picture Sarah Palin and her inner circle of
In Berlin they are preparing for the worst: Beijing’s decision to loosen the renminbi’s peg to the dollar will take the pressure off China at the summit of the G20 in Toronto.But that means Germany is likely to come into the line of fire.Germany’s leaders expect to see the focus turn to their hefty trade surplus once more, with renewed calls not just from US president Barack Obama, but also from
WASHINGTON The Democratic National Committee has unveiled a new television ad that calls Republicans oil company loyalists who would rather apologize to BP than hold it accountable for the massive spill in the Gulf.The 30-second ad started running Monday on national and Washington cable stations.It includes a clip of Republican Rep.Joe Barton of Texas apologizing to BP for what he called a $20 b
What now for the most prominent critics of China’s fixed exchange rate? The timing of Beijing’s currency announcement on Saturday appeared to take much of Washington by surprise.For some, it will be a great relief.At least in the near term it relieves pressure on the administration of President Barack Obama, which had been pushed into an increasingly uncomfortable position.But for the advocates o