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Tribune-Review
March 27, 2018
O. Box Verona, which explains why the former U.S. senator and presidential aspirant has been relegated to political exile. If Santorum is so duly concerned about teens' engagement in issues that directly affect them, he could suggest something more applicable — and more intelligent — than CPR training,Ãâà...
Press & Sun-Bulletin
March 26, 2018
A French-Iraqi sociologist, she was raised in Paris because her Iraqi parents fled Saddam Hussein as political exiles. “The post-2003 Iraqi regime has proven to be very anti-democratic,” she added. Matt Howard enlisted in the Marines before Sept. 11, 2001. “I watched the invasion from Okinawa, Japan,Ãâà...
Irish Times
March 24, 2018
... Mr Kuczynski took to social media to say he would withdraw his resignation and insist they formally remove him. Mr Vizcarra was due to assume office with little popular or political support. He had been sent into political exile by Mr Kuczynski, who made him ambassador to Canada after he was caught upÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 24, 2018
A French-Iraqi sociologist, she was raised in Paris because her Iraqi parents fled Saddam Hussein as political exiles. “The post-2003 Iraqi regime has proven to be very anti-democratic,” she added. Matt Howard enlisted in the Marines before Sept. 11, 2001. “I watched the invasion from Okinawa, Japan,Ãâà...
Toronto Sun
March 24, 2018
I will give the Liberals credit for one thing, in response to the justified public backlash over the $1 billion-plus failed registry that led to their political exile from government in 2006, they have dodged that bullet this time by saddling the costs of the new registry exclusively on the backs of Canadian businessesÃâà...
Winston-Salem Journal
March 19, 2018
To permanent political exile? Much depends on whether the Democrats make a foolish choice in 2020, opening up space for a third party. In any event, Flake implicitly (and I think, unintentionally) makes a powerful argument that the first step is the complete demolition of a reckless, soulless party.
Kansas City Star (blog)
March 19, 2018
Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, articulates as well as anyone the cataclysmic mistake the GOP made in getting behind President Donald Trump's campaign and following him wherever he meanders. During a National Press Club speech on Thursday, he declared: “Defending democratic institutionsÃâà...
Phuket Gazette
March 18, 2018
You'd think that would be the end of Thaksin Shinawatra. Not quite yet. Thai Rak Thai morphed into a new political party, Pheu Thai, with Thaksin's younger sister playing the role of puppet for her fugitive brother who was now living in self-imposed political exile to avoid facing a jail term in his home country.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
March 17, 2018
And this keeps cropping up in his interviews: Political exile runs in his family. “My grandparents left the Soviet Union in 1927, my father left Cuba in 1970, so I am the third generation of Smolanskys who've had to leave a country because of a totalitarian regime,” he told the BBC in December. “I'm the thirdÃâà...
Carlisle Sentinel
March 14, 2018
How enthusiastic were Republicans about Donald Trump's first visit to the Golden State since becoming President to inspect prototypes for his proposed border wall? A column in the San Diego Union-Tribune from Republican Mayor Kevin Faulconer, directed at Trump, was headlined: "there's more to ourÃâà...
BLOUIN ARTINFO
March 13, 2018
This exhibition is an exclusive event since the artist, born in Beijing in 1949, is one of the founding fathers of Chinese contemporary art and recognized as such in his own homeland despite his political exile in 1984. In France, his adoptive land, he has since then built a work internationally consideredÃâà...
The Guardian
March 13, 2018
Ka's political exile takes on new resonance now, because Pamuk himself had to leave Turkey a few years after publishing Snow. It's also hard not to read our own current problems into Pamuk's at once specific and universal depiction of a “forgotten” city, full of people angry with the liberal elite, ready to takeÃâà...
Asia Times
March 13, 2018
Sam Rainsy, a former CNRP leader and CNRM founder, declined to comment to Asia Times on the issue of political exiles in Thailand over concerns for their safety. Sam Rainsy has recently threatened from exile to launch large anti-government street protests and called on the military to mutiny againstÃâà...
Business Insider
March 13, 2018
A Russian political exile who once warned that he was on the personal hitlist of Vladimir Putin has died in London. Nikolai Glushkov, 69, was found dead at his home in southwest London on Monday. Police confirmed that "a man in his 60s" was found dead but did not name Glushkov directly. The exact circumstances areÃâà...
Patch.com
March 10, 2018
The two-term governor chose to end his self-imposed political exile, popping up in Kansas City for events and interviews and inviting the 2020 speculation. "It's on my radar screen," Patrick told an interviewer about a possible presidential run. Though he has never slammed the door to the White House forÃâà...
Calgary Sun
March 7, 2018
That self-imposed political exile would be short-lived, however. Amid the chaos that came after the mass defection of Wildrose MLAs to then-premier Jim Prentice's PC government in December 2014, Jean stepped back into the fray. Seen in some circles as a possible caretaker leader unlikely to withstandÃâà...
Ahval
March 7, 2018
On Feb. 4, Turkish police, acting at the behest of the government of Tajikistan, arrested Sharipov, a businessman and IRPT member, at his teahouse. According to Human Rights Watch, which has been documenting the targeting of Tajik political exiles, 12 days later officials from the government of TajikistanÃâà...
POLITICO Magazine
February 25, 2018
The concept of the “Overton window,” the range of ideas outside which lie political exile or pariahdom, was first batted around in a series of conversations by the late free-market advocate Joseph Overton in the 1990s. After Overton's untimely death in a plane crash in 2003, his friend and colleague at theÃâà...
The Hindu
February 17, 2018
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu, in conversation with Sreenivasan Jain, Managing Editor, NDTV, on the day-1 of The Huddle 2018 - The Hindu's second edition of idea conclave, in Bengaluru on February 17, 2018. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Ãâ÷ The Hindu Net Desk. February 18Ãâà...
The Hindu
February 17, 2018
Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, Farahnaz Ispahani, Pakistani writer, and S.C. Chandrahasan, Sri Lankan human rights activist, in conversation with N. Ram, Chairman, The Hindu Group, at The Huddle. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Ãâ÷ Mini Kapoor. February 17, 2018 22:39 IST. Updated:Ãâà...
Independent Online
February 12, 2018
In commemorating political exile Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar, ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte, Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor, and the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) visited his burial site yesterday. Their visit coincided with the launch of the centennial celebrations in honourÃâà...
Open Democracy
December 31, 1999
The Central Asian Political Exiles project at the University of Exeter has built a database of how post-Soviet Central Asian states, which continue to model their security services on those of Russia, take extraterritorial measures against their exiles in other post-Soviet states, Turkey and in the west.
The Advertiser
December 31, 1999
DEFEATED SA Best leader Nick Xenophon will banish himself to political exile for at least the next few months as the former publicity hound leaves the limelight to the party's new MPs. Ousted from Australian parliaments for the first time in more than 20 years, Mr Xenophon will remain in Adelaide, living offÃâà...
The Independent Weekly
December 31, 1999
Even so, Governor Roy Cooper, House Minority Leader Darren Jackson, and N.C. Democratic Party chairman Wayne Goodwin have called on Hall to resign from his seat. Hall is effectively in political exile and under pressure to call it a day instead of seeking reelection. But Hall, it seems, has no intention ofÃâà...
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