Word: nowness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The country's Constitutional Court rejected holding the national referendum that would have allowed Uribe a third run for the presidency. With a 7-to-2 ruling, the court said the referendum law presented "substantial violations to the democratic principle" and that its passage was laden with irregularities. Uribe said...
With the referendum debacle out of the way, Medina believes Colombians will now turn their attention to the candidate debates that are normally part of any electoral process. "The people will be left an orphan, and they are now going to look for a new papa," says Medina.
For a glimmer of what Iraq might look like without Americans, take a drive east of Baghdad to Diyala province, whose mixed Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish population is the country in microcosm. U.S. soldiers now rarely leave their bases outside Iraq's cities and towns, leaving security on the...
Baquba, the provincial capital and center of Iraq's citrus-growing region, is a largely colorless place, except for the winter orange harvest and the hundreds of campaign posters for Sunday's nationwide elections that now line the city's trash-filled streets. Still, at least the sectarian power struggle...
Inside the fortified government headquarters, Diyala Governor Abdul-Nasser al-Mahdwe is relatively optimistic that the elections - the fourth poll since the U.S invasion brought democracy to Iraq - will go smoothly. "The country is getting better at elections," he tells TIME. "In the first, the fraud was about 40%. In...