HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Wednesday the United States is being frustrated in attempts to provide aid for victims of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike by a Cuban government intent on playing politics.
Instead of accepting the offer, Cuba has said it would be more helpful if the United States dropped its 46-year-long trade embargo against the island.
Cuba's talk of the embargo 'obviously seems to have the ring of politics overriding the needs of the people' and 'has nothing to do with humanitarian aid,' Gutierrez told Reuters in a telephone interview from Washington.
'We believe we could be of great help to the Cuban people, but the offer was rejected, and it's very frustrating because we want to help,' he said.
But Cuba in a rare move said it would accept aid from the United Nations, said John Holmes, the UN's humanitarian affairs chief. He said the aid would total up to $3.5 million(2 million pounds).
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008
McCain, Obama meet in New York City
Arizona Sen. John McCain and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama promise to set presidential politics aside when they meet in New York City today on the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Unfortunately, the city's day of mourning falls at the crescendo of a nasty week of partisan mudslinging, one in which Obama has accused McCain of lying, McCain accused Obama of pushing sex education on kindergartners and no one agrees on who meant what by the phrase 'lipstick on a pig.'"
Unfortunately, the city's day of mourning falls at the crescendo of a nasty week of partisan mudslinging, one in which Obama has accused McCain of lying, McCain accused Obama of pushing sex education on kindergartners and no one agrees on who meant what by the phrase 'lipstick on a pig.'"
Monday, 8 September 2008
60 injured in fierce clashes during anti-election strike- Hindustan Times
"At least 60 people were injured in fierce clashes between protesters and security forces across the Kashmir Valley on Monday during a strike called by separatists against holding of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir."
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McCain has the lead in U.S. election race: poll
Republican nominee John McCain has taken the lead from his Democratic party counterpart, Barack Obama, in the U.S. presidential race, according to a new poll by USA Today and Gallup.
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Democrats do better than expected in Hong Kong election - International Herald Tribune
McCain, Obama plan joint 9/11 stop
WASHINGTON — Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said today they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance Thursday at the World Trade Center site to mark the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The campaigns already had agreed to suspend TV advertising critical of each other on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign has said it will air no ads that day.
“All of us came together on 9/11 — not as Democrats or Republicans — but as Americans,” the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees said in a statement. “We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity.”
The campaigns already had agreed to suspend TV advertising critical of each other on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign has said it will air no ads that day.
“All of us came together on 9/11 — not as Democrats or Republicans — but as Americans,” the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees said in a statement. “We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity.”
US candidates clash over Palin's politics and experience
"The two main candidates for the US presidency locked horns yesterday over the credentials and qualities of Sarah Palin, the little-known governor of Alaska who has been propelled into the centre of the electoral battle with her appointment as John McCain's Republican running mate.
As the race now fans out across America at the end of the two parties' national conventions, attention continues to focus on Palin, who has delighted the Christian right base of the Republican party but provoked criticism of her lack of experience, particularly in foreign affairs.
Interviewed on politics programmes of the US networks yesterday, McCain and his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, presented conflicting perspectives on Palin's politics and role in the election.
Obama praised her as a skilled politician but rolled out his camp's new weapon - to depict her as a sort of McCain-Bush with brass knobs on. Obama said she was 'even more aligned with George Bush or Dick Cheney and the politics we've seen over the last eight years than John McCain himself'.
Obama derided McCain's claim over the weekend that Palin had more foreign affairs experience than he had, by dint of the fact that her state lies next to Russia. 'I actually knew Alaska is next to Russia - I saw it on the map,' Obama quipped."
As the race now fans out across America at the end of the two parties' national conventions, attention continues to focus on Palin, who has delighted the Christian right base of the Republican party but provoked criticism of her lack of experience, particularly in foreign affairs.
Interviewed on politics programmes of the US networks yesterday, McCain and his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, presented conflicting perspectives on Palin's politics and role in the election.
Obama praised her as a skilled politician but rolled out his camp's new weapon - to depict her as a sort of McCain-Bush with brass knobs on. Obama said she was 'even more aligned with George Bush or Dick Cheney and the politics we've seen over the last eight years than John McCain himself'.
Obama derided McCain's claim over the weekend that Palin had more foreign affairs experience than he had, by dint of the fact that her state lies next to Russia. 'I actually knew Alaska is next to Russia - I saw it on the map,' Obama quipped."
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