26-08-2008 Democrats launch convention in Denver

US Democratic National Convention has got underway to elect Barack Obama as the country's first African-American White House nominee.

26-08-2008 Obama slams McCain for terror ad

Barack Obama's camp sues a conservative group, financing a TV ad linking the Illinois Senator to William Ayers, a Vietnam War-era terrorist.

24-08-2008 Yalla Vote

"Yalla Vote '08 is our most ambitious election year program to date. By using new technologies, new resources, and new coalitions, we hope to place our community and our concerns at the center of the national debate,"

23-08-2008 Obama picks Biden for vice president

The US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has chosen Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate, sources say.

23-08-2008 Pakistan to elect president Sept. 6

Pakistan will elect a president on Sept. 6, the Election Commission announced yesterday. Lawmakers will vote in national and provincial assemblies from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. that day, Election Commission Secretary Kunwar Dilshad said.

20-08-2008 Election a study in U.S. patriotism

Democratic candidate Obama has made patriotism a core theme of his campaign, seeking to inspire voters to overcome divisions of race and party and using his own story as a child of a Kenyan father and Kansas mother as an example of opportunities available only in America.

19-08-2008 Obama, McCain back Musharraf resignation

U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama said Monday that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was right to resign

18-08-2008 McCain cheating his way into Oval Office?

Senator John McCain has reportedly had prior knowledge of the questions of a joint live interview in which he faced rival Barack Obama.

18-08-2008 Obama takes off gloves to attack McCain

Obama, who has been put on the defensive by a series of attacks on his character, experience and readiness for the presidency, has been responding to the McCain accusations blow for blow.

11-08-2008 Why isn't Obama crushing McCain?

A conversation with two prominent journalists and a Bush-Cheney campaign official about why, in what should be a Democratic year, Obama can't put McCain away.

10-08-2008 McCain raps Obama on Iraq strategy

Presumptive Republican nominee McCain has echoed earlier criticism of his Democratic rival for supporting US troop withdrawal from Iraq.

10-08-2008 Saudi ministry sets up committee to hold RCCI election

The Saudi ministry of commerce and industry has set up a special committee to guarantee a free and fair election for the new board of directors of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI). Businessmen and businesswomen will compete for 10 seats in the election scheduled on October 15.

07-08-2008 Election to be held "shortly" in post-coup...

The overthrown head of state, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, in March 2007 became Mauritania's first democratically elected president since independence in 1960.

07-08-2008 Clinton wants her delegates heard at the convention

Hillary Clinton tells supporters she believes that Democratic Party unity would be stronger 'if people feel that their voices were heard and their views respected.'

07-08-2008 Looking for Any Signs at Obama-Bayh Meeting

The reasons for Mr. Bayh’s apparent presence in the inner circle of potential ticketmates are varied, and they say something about the nature of the 2008 race and the correlation of forces within the Democratic Party.

07-08-2008 Possible McCain Running Mate Pawlenty

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, viewed as a possible running mate for Sen. John McCain, brought his ideas for reforming the Republican Party to Washington on Wednesday.

26-07-2008 Iraq election law snubbed on women's quota

Out of the 140 members present for the vote, 127 Iraqi lawmakers Wednesday passed legislation for the provincial council elections. Kurdish members, however, stormed out of the session, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, also a Kurd, later rejected the measure.

25-07-2008 Local election loss bitter blow to Brown

Defeat left Brown facing a bleak weekend as the party's main policy-making forum met to try to work out how to win back voters disillusioned by a string of political gaffes, rising inflation and a slowing economy.

24-07-2008 Obama Visits Israel 'to Win Jewish Votes'

On his first visit to the volatile Middle East as the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama sought to sell his pledge to directly engage in a peace process, should he become president, but his 36-hour stop in Israel – with a little time in the West Bank – appeared more of a...

24-07-2008 Obama leads McCain by 6 points

Democrat Barack Obama is leading his Republican rival John McCain by 6 points as the US prepares for Election Day, a recent poll shows.