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US Elections
Embassies targeted in Greek bombing campaign
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Island Row Japan recalls envoy to Moscow Tokyo, November 2 Japan said today it was recalling its ambassador to Moscow temporarily after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited a disputed island, raising the stakes in a territorial row.
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Obama’s Democrats fear rout
Washington, November 2 All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for grab, while Republicans and Democrats are keenly contesting for 37 of the 100 Senate seats. Elections are also being held for 37 state Governors, besides a large number of state and local elections. For the first time, a record six Indian Americans are in the fray, besides quite a number of them for other local and state elections. However, for the Indian Americans all eye are on Nikki Randhawa Haley, daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab. If the latest opinion polls are of any indication, chances are bright for her. Haley might create history by becoming the first woman governor of South Carolina and only the second Indian American Governor after Bobby Piyush Jindal of Louisiana. The six Indian Americans running for House of Representatives are having a fight. Interestingly five of them are Democrats - Manan Trivedi from Pennsylvania, Ami Bera from California, Raj Goyle from Kansas, Ravi Sangisetty from Louisiana and Surya Yalamanchili from Ohio. Ashvin Lad from Illinois is the only Republican Indian American in fray. But it is not clear yet, who would become only the third Indian American ever to enter the US Congress after Dilip Singh Saundh and Bobby Piyush Jindal. Trivedi, Bera and Goyle are said to have some chance if any, if the poll reports are of any indication. Latest opinion polls said that Republicans are heading for a massive victory in this mid-term election as people are apparently not satisfied with the economic policies of the Obama Administration. The opposition Republican Party needs 39 seats to regain majority in the House of Representatives. It also needs to get an additional 10 Senate seats to get Senate majority. Obama who had been campaigning aggressively across the country for the past few week went on radio talk shows on the election day, urging people to come out and vote in large numbers. He voted in absentia. Beyond the individual results, The New York Times said the nation will be looking at the returns for answers to bigger questions. — PTI
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Embassies targeted in Greek bombing campaign
Athens, November 2 The police said a total of five parcel bombs had been discovered in the capital today, just days before local elections, following similar packages addressed to three other embassies and President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday. An employee at the Swiss embassy narrowly escaped injury when a suspect parcel ignited today, a police source said. Switzerland's foreign ministry said the device had been left at the entrance to the embassy in Athens, and burst into flames when it was being checked by staff. "The burst of flame occurred when employees were removing the external wrapping of the package. At no moment was there an explosion," the ministry said. No one was injured. Meanwhile, controlled explosions were carried out on suspect packages at the Russian and Bulgarian embassies, and on another outside the Greek parliament. The parcel-bombing campaign comes ahead of local elections on Sunday and during a period of social malaise after deep austerity measures adopted by the Socialist government to battle an unprecedented debt crisis. The police yesterday arrested two men suspected of links to a far-left group after the discovery of several booby-trapped packages, including one addressed to the French president. — AFP
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Japan recalls envoy to Moscow
Tokyo, November 2 Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan, struggling with a divided Parliament and a fragile economy, has come under fire for what critics claim was his mishandling of a separate territorial dispute with China, and is under pressure to look firm this time. "We have a territorial problem and that needs to be solved," Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara told a news conference at which he announced the envoy's temporary recall. The dispute prevented Russia and Japan signing a peace treaty ending World War II. — Reuters
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Woman tried to murder Labour MP over Iraq Awlaqi charged in Yemen France, UK ink defence pacts Blasts kill 62 across Baghdad Baghdad: Iraqi hospital and police officials say 10 blasts ripping through Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods have killed at least 62 persons. The blasts took place in at least eight neighborhoods across the city on Tuesday evening. Officials said more than 180 people were injured by the bombings, which involved a combination of car bombs, roadside bombs and mortars. — AP
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