Posts Tagged ‘south’

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes political tour in south (AP)

In this photo taken Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi visits a photo exhibition at the Yangon Photo Festival in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP – Thousands of supporters in Myanmar’s countryside cheered opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday as she made a political tour ahead of by-elections, highlighting how quickly and dramatically politics is changing in the long-repressed Southeast Asian nation.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Gingrich leads in South Carolina primary (AP)

Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes part in a TV interview during a campaign event at the Grapevine Restaurant in Spartanburg, S.C., on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, the unpredictable voting day of the South Carolina presidential primary. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Newt Gingrich bid for an upset Saturday night in the South Carolina primary, the first Southern testing ground in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and historically a harbinger of the final outcome.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

South Carolina GOP primary races to dramatic close (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, and his wife Callista sign autographs at a campaign rally aboard the USS Yorktown Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in Mt. Pleasant, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP – Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are not ceding one inch of South Carolina as the unpredictable campaign for the South’s first presidential primary concludes.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Romney braces for final full day in South Carolina (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 1997 photo, House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and his wife Marianne leave their home for Capitol Hill.  Dredging up a past that Newt Gingrich has worked hard to bury, the GOP presidential candidate's ex-wife says Gingrich asked for an 'open marriage' in which he could have both a wife and a mistress. In an interview with ABC News' 'Nightline' scheduled to air Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012,  Marianne Gingrich said she refused to go along with the proposal that she share her husband with Callista Bisek, who would later become his third wife.  (AP Photo/Mark Wilson)AP – Front-runner Mitt Romney and his presidential pursuers enter the final full day of campaigning in a South Carolina GOP primary contest significantly altered from just 24 hours earlier.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Rivals assail Romney in South Carolina debate (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, speaks during the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, listens Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP – Under heavy debate pressure from his rivals, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney defended his record as a venture capitalist, insisted he bears no responsibility for attack ads aired by his allies and grudgingly said Monday night he might release his income tax returns this spring.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Romney rivals fight for South Carolina coast (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to members of the media after a GOP forum at Byrnes High School, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Duncan, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Call it the fight for the coast.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Bomb kills at least 53 pilgrims in south Iraq (AP)

Security forces and people inspect the scene of a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims, killing and wounding some scores of people, police said, near the southern port city of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012.  It was the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious commemorations that threaten to further increase sectarian tensions just weeks after the U.S. withdrawal. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP – A bomb tore through a procession of Shiite pilgrims heading toward a largely Sunni town in southern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 53 people in the latest sign of a power struggle between rival Muslim sects that has escalated since the American military withdrawal.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Amazon Free Clicks