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US ELECTION

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 19, 2015
Jeb Bush foreign policy team too familiar?
Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush has drawn heavily from the administrations of his brother and father in picking his nascent team of foreign policy advisers, a choice that may undercut his assertion that he is his "own man" on international affairs.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2015
Jeb Bush to deliver speech laying out case for stronger U.S. role in world
The United States needs to regain its leadership role in the world, Republican Jeb Bush will say in a speech on Wednesday, while asserting that President Barack Obama has been inconsistent and indecisive in carrying out American foreign policy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 15, 2015
Liberals work to lure Elizabeth Warren into White House race
The scene in the New Hampshire office is one common to any nascent U.S. presidential campaign in the state that holds the country's first primary contest: Young staffers peck away at laptops and unpack boxes of signs with their candidate's name.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 13, 2015
Presidential politics: all personality, no platform
Hillary Clinton may have everything she needs to run for U.S. president in 2016: money, name recognition, staff, organization — everything except ideas at the moment.
WORLD
Feb 11, 2015
Child murders in Cote d'Ivoire spark fears of pre-election ritual killings, organ trade
Nina rarely ventures outside of her house in Cote d'Ivoire's commercial capital, Abidjan, since her 5-year-old son, Benitier, was kidnapped and mutilated in November. She won't let her oldest son go to school.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2015
Netanyahu considering changes to Congress speech after criticism
Israeli officials are considering amending the format of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned address to the U.S. Congress next month to try to calm some of the partisan furor the Iran-focused speech has provoked.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2015
Abbott pledge puts Japanese submarine deal in doubt
Officials in Australia and Japan on Monday expressed skepticism and confusion over a pledge by Prime Minister Tony Abbott to give an Australian state-owned shipbuilder the option to tender for a major submarine contract, heightening the uncertainty around the project.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2015
Canadian foreign minister to quit amid talk of tensions with prime minister
Foreign Minister John Baird is unexpectedly set to resign from the federal Cabinet this week amid what sources said had been tensions with the prime minister's office.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2015
Indian's Modi stokes radical Hindus' anger over economic focus
In an ashram near the Ganges River in the Himalayan foothills, Indian priest-turned-politician Sakshi Maharaj mimes rowing a boat to illustrate what will happen if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ignores Hindu nationalist demands.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 3, 2015
Greece ruptures 30 years of political consensus in Europe
By catapulting to power an improbable alliance of the hard -left and nationalist far-right, Greece has shaken up Europe's political kaleidoscope and may have signaled the end of an era of centrist consensus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 1, 2015
Australian state election bodes ill for Abbott government
Australia's opposition Labor party pulled off a huge electoral turnaround in a key state on Saturday, positioning it to oust the ruling Liberal-National Party in a voter backlash that threatens the future of Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 31, 2015
The 2016 White House race: a list of possible candidates
The calculus for the 2016 race for the White House has shifted after 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney decided not to run again. Here are a few of the possible contenders:
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 28, 2015
Syriza win forces Europe's center-left to reconsider austerity
European politicians at opposite ends of the spectrum celebrated the election victory of Greece's anti-austerity Syriza party on Monday, but Alexis Tsipras' post-communist triumph is forcing mainstream leftists to reconsider their position.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 28, 2015
Billionaire Koch brothers launch 2016 U.S. 'electoral arms race'
Democrats acknowledged on Tuesday that it may be impossible to match the nearly $900 million that the conservative billionaire Koch brothers said their political network will spend during the 2016 campaign cycle.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2015
Koch brothers to spend $889 million on 2016 U.S. elections
Conservative political advocacy groups supported by the billionaire Koch brothers plan to spend $889 million in the 2016 U.S. elections, more than double what they raised in 2012, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2015
Netanyahu defends planned Congress speech as anti-Iran strategy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended on Sunday a planned speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, saying he had a moral obligation to speak out on an issue that poses a mortal threat to Israel.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 25, 2015
Potential Republican presidential candidates compete for support in Iowa
For Republicans, the long road to the 2016 presidential election began in earnest on Saturday in Iowa when a group of potential candidates jockeyed for support among conservatives in the state that will hold the country's first nominating contest.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 22, 2015
Social media pressure Cambodian leaders
The CCTV footage is blurry but graphic. A gunman stands over a cringing victim, firing bullet after bullet into his body until the Phnom Penh street is spattered with blood.

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