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Paraguayan magnate wins back power for Colorado Party By Daniela Desantis and Hilary Burke ASUNCION (Reuters) - Business magnate Horacio Cartes won Paraguay's presidential election on Sunday, returning his powerful center-right Colorado Party to power after the left's brief spell ended in impeachme
Yahoo! News | Apr 22, 2013 02:53 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Wealthy businessman on way to winning Paraguayan presidency By Daniela Desantis and Hilary Burke ASUNCION (Reuters) - Millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes of the powerful, center-right Colorado Party appeared to be heading to victory in Paraguay's presidential election on Sunday, exit polls and partial offi
Yahoo! News | Apr 21, 2013 11:27 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Opposition, election body differ on Venezuela vote audit By Daniel Wallis and Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition and electoral authority expressed on Saturday widely differing expectations for an audit of the contested April 14 presidential election, a day after Nicolas Maduro was sw
Yahoo! News | Apr 21, 2013 02:23 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Colombia's Santos hints he may run again, for two years By Eduardo Garcia and Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday signaled he may run for re-election in 2014, but only if he can serve for just two more years, half the usual term, and change the rules for
Yahoo! News | Apr 20, 2013 08:05 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Maduro sworn in, Venezuela to review disputed vote By Daniel Wallis and Brian Ellsworth CARACAS (Reuters) - Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as Venezuela's president on Friday at a ceremony attended by leaders from Iran to Brazil after a decision to widen an electronic audit of the vote took some of the h
Yahoo! News | Apr 19, 2013 10:06 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Obama health plan would cover 31 million uninsured Reuters - The White House unveiled President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the health insurance system on Monday that it said would provide coverage for 31 million uninsured Americans and set up federal monitoring of private insurers' rate increases.
Yahoo! News | Feb 22, 2010 3:06 PM [GMT] | 1 comment | recommend

San Fran mayor announces he's running for governor AP - San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has made it official — he's running to become California's next governor.
Yahoo! News | Apr 21, 2009 4:24 PM [GMT] | 1 comment | recommend

3 news agencies refuse to distribute Obama photo AP - Three news agencies refused to distribute White House-provided photos of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday, arguing that access should have been provided to news photographers.
Yahoo! News | Jan 22, 2009 03:36 AM [GMT] | 1 comment | recommend

Obama election sparks new interest in civil rights Reuters - When Barack Obama is sworn in next week as the first black U.S. president, 97-year-old Alabama civil rights veteran Amelia Boynton Robinson will see a miracle in the milestone.
Yahoo! News | Jan 12, 2009 5:47 PM [GMT] | 1 comment | recommend

Palin wows Republicans Reuters - Sarah Palin broke a five-day silence and talked her way into Republican hearts and minds. The Alaska governor plucked from relative obscurity by John McCain to be his vice presidential running mate for the Nov. 4 election pressed all the right b
Yahoo! News | Sep 4, 2008 12:49 PM [GMT] | 2 comments | recommend

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