SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (AFP) - Hillary and Bill Clinton Sunday launched a campaign blitz of the blue-collar heartland that will decide the White House race, beseeching their supporters to make Barack Obama president.
The couple, making their first double-barrelled campaign appearance for Obama, dominated Democratic politics for a generation, but now are supporting players, after reconciling Hillary [...]

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Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is predicting that there will be a minority government after Canadians vote Oct. 14.
Speaking in French in Saint-Tite, Que., he said Sunday that “the next government will probably be a minority, Liberal or Conservative.” Saint-Tite is about 150 kilometres southwest of Quebec City.
Harper has not been in the habit of forecasting [...]

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel’s Kadima and Labour parties are close to a deal on a coalition government led by Tzipi Livni, a move that sets her on course to form a new centrist administration, Army Radio said on Sunday.
Foreign Minister Livni still needs to persuade other parties to join her to build a workable parliamentary [...]

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Parliamentary or Power sharing
By Standard Team
The road to a new constitution has already hit rough waters over the system of governance to be adopted.
Politicians and other stakeholders are headed for a major disagreement over what political system the country should adopt.
They are split mainly over two options — a parliamentary system (where the prime [...]

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Orengo: Let PM oversee Government
By peter opiyo
Lands Minister James Orengo has kicked of another storm by claiming the Head of Civil Service was creating another centre of power, contrary to the Constitution.
Orengo said Head of civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet Francis Muthaura should not oversee operations of Government, since that job was [...]

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