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Pakistan’s Sharif gets resounding election victory
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised to return to office with a resounding election victory — a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the country's daunting problems, including growing power outages, weak economic growth and shaky government finances. Continue reading
Catalans Back Pro-Independence Parties
Despite promising a referendum if he had a significant mandate, the region’s current president sees his party’s majority cut. Continue reading
Budget officer, NDP ask court to settle dispute with Tories
The NDP and Parliament’s budget watchdog are asking the Federal Court to clarify his mandate and whether he has the power to ask for specific financial information from federal departments. Continue reading
UN planning peacekeeping force for Syria
The United Nations is already planning for a peacekeeping force in Syria should a cease-fire in that country take hold and pending a Security Council mandate, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Monday. Continue reading
Wall Street to rise on GDP, stimulus hopes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street was poised to rise at the open on Friday, following a report on U.S. economic growth which met expectations, and on renewed hopes for further stimulus from the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. U.S. Continue reading
Slovenia to hold presidential election on November 11
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Euro zone member Slovenia will hold a regular presidential election on November 11, Parliamentary Speaker Gregor Virant said on Wednesday. One of president’s duties will next year be to nominate a central bank governor who will also sit on the ECB’s governing council next year as the mandate of the present Governor Marko Kranjec expires in June 2013 Continue reading
Award-winning portfolio manager Dana Love joins Sentry Investments to lead global equity team
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – July 4, 2012) – Sentry Investments (“Sentry”) has expanded its equity capabilities by adding global investment expert Dana Love to its newly created global equity team. Mr Continue reading
Egypt’s new president faces burden of expectation
CAIRO (Reuters) – If Egypt's new president, Mohamed Mursi, needs any reminder of the weight of expectations bearing down as he begins work, he can glance from a window of the presidential palace. Citizens seeking jobs, compensation from the state or clemency for jailed relatives crowded at the palace gates on Sunday, showing how Mursi's unprecedented popular mandate has raised hopes for a more responsive kind of government Continue reading
Greeks to vote with a global audience
Elections are supposed to determine the will of the people, to set a nation on a new course with a government that enjoys the mandate of the majority. In splintered Greece, the vote on Sunday is shaping up as a challenge to this time-honored rule of democracy. Continue reading
Religious leaders ask for broader birth control exemption
Religious leaders petitioned for exemption to avoid a controversial mandate that health care insurers provide free contraception coverage. Continue reading
