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PESHAWAR: The NWFP chapter of the Pakistan People’’s Party (PPP) was a coalition partner and would not sit on opposition benches, party’’s parliamentary leader, Abdul Akbar Khan told Geo News today. Akbar Khan pointed out that conflicts with Awami National Party over appointments of administrators were resolved.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s official song may include a line about “Northern scum” left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn’t feeling so Southern anymore.

SYDNEY : Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Friday shrugged off US President Barack Obama’s decision to postpone next week’s visit, saying he would be welcome any time. Rudd said he had spoken to Obama about the move to reschedule the trip as the president wrestles with landmark healthcare legislation, and hailed his close relationship with the American leader.

Chris Matthews interviewed Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity, Thursday about health care reform.

Two ominous political realities have settled in hard at the White House. One is a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC poll that showed that 86 percent of African-Americans approve President Obama’s performance

One of the most powerful labor leaders in the country said this week that he has received no pushback from Democratic campaign committees over his union’s decision to support primary challengers for those Democrats who oppose health care reform. In an interview with the Huffington Post, SEIU President Andy Stern said he had not “received any calls” from either the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee or, for that matter, the Obama White House, for his increasingly aggressive threats aimed at lawmakers who say they plan to vote against the bill.

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech is urging calm as e-mails and Internet postings originating in Italy threaten another attack on campus. Though police do not believe the threats are credible, President Charles Steger said in an e-mail to faculty and students Wednesday that classes will be held Thursday with additional security on campus

For the rest of March, to mark seven years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Shadow Elite column each week will focus on what I call in my book the “Neocon core,” a tiny circle of longtime ideological allies who used their interlocking relationships across government, think tanks, business, and national borders to achieve their vision of asserting American power, and firepower, to remake the Middle East.

Taking a major step to weed out incompetence and strengthening, Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved cabinet in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. This comes after Jonathan replaced Justice Minister Michael Aondoakaa and appointed Aliyu Gusau as a security adviser.