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El Ayuntamiento dio a la trama 120.000 euros más de lo debido por un acto

El sistema de turnos de Cánovas es parte de una oportuna revisión del pasado

John Kerry seeks support for British-led move as means of pressuring Bashar al-Assad to enter into peace negotiationsThe United States is lobbying European governments to back a British-led call to amend the EU arms embargo on Syria to put pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to enter into talks with the opposition.John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has been urging...

Rafsanjani, Mashaei banned from presidential bid in Iran Top news: A governing body of the Iranian government issued its list of approved presidential candidates and excluded two leading contenders -- Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei -- a decision that all but guarantees that the next Iranian president will be drawn from a conservatives...

A beginner's guide to this increasingly vocal speciesMany species native to Britain are in sharp decline, but the swivel-eyed loon (Gavia articulata oculos) has recently seen a marked increase in numbers, although the rise in sightings could simply be down to better reporting. But how would you know one if you saw one? For the novice, we present a loon-spotter's...

Two liberal Democrats, once allies on City Council, spent record sums vying for the highest office of America’s second-largest city

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was in Jamaica last week for downtime with his family, while NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair rested in his home province of Quebec for the long weekend

‘We will let the committee do its work and I’m quite confident they will do it properly,’ said Marjory LeBreton, Government Leader in the Senate, in response to skepticism from the Liberal opposition

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Voters in Los Angeles went to the polls on Tuesday to choose a new mayor in an election between two liberal Democrats seeking to lead America's second-largest city as it faces an increasingly gloomy financial outlook.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was barraged with questions over the $90,000 paid to Sen. Mike Duffy. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is accusing the government of only caring that the scandal was uncovered

Ramallah is the boom town of the West Bank. As, bit by bit (under the settlement policy of Israel), the likelihood of East Jerusalem being...

NDP Leader pointed to the numerous concessions Premier Kathleen Wynne L gave the party to secure its support

Small business owners can’t afford to risk political change if the economic change that comes with it also affects their business, livelihoods, income, family and employees

A top liberal SuperPAC in the 2012 election had undisclosed financial ties to the private equity firm Bain Capital — something that some people close to the group say interfered with its core mission of attacking Bain veteran Mitt Romney’s business record.Read More...More on Mitt Romney

20-year-old Liberal Demoncrat councillor Joe Harris chose his 47-year-old father to be hid deputy when he was elected Mayor of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, earlier this month.

González rechaza las primarias en el PP que propone su mentora

El exministro de Finanzas Leonid Kudrin critica al Gobierno y se perfila como posible alternativa

Israeli police say vandals have spray-panted slogans on the home of one of the leaders of a liberal Jewish women's group that has angered ultra-Orthodox communities over its demands for equality of worship.

It's past time for him to go,'Texas Sen. John Cornyn said of AG Eric Holder, while radio host Bill Press cites 'chasing the AP over phone records, as the last straw. Journalist David Shuster and left-wing ideologue Keith Olbermann have previously called for Holder's ouster,

Remember Achilles? We need to convert such indignation to the service of a view of justice that’s sane and reasonable – in our world, liberal democracy

Liberals turned campaign into referendum on perils of electing ‘socialists,’ rather than their spotty record

Liberal campaign successfully exploited voters’ distrust of NDP fiscal record to cement majority

By Mohammed Abbas LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is "losing control of his party", Conservative Party grandee Geoffrey Howe said on Sunday, as a row raged over whether a close aide to Cameron had labelled grassroots activists "mad, swivel-eyed loons". The furore threatens to further alienate Cameron and...

David Cameron has admitted Coalition could break up before the next election amid growing speculation the Liberal Democrats could leave early.    

Liberal Democrat John Hemming has condemned Hugh Tomlinson QC (pictured), the barrister who has led Hacked Off's call for state-backed regulation of the press, for his role in bringing legal injunctions on behalf of footballer Ryan Giggs and banker Fred Goodwin.

Here’s a scientific news flash about our recent presidential election: You could assume that President Obama was more kindly disposed to redistribution of wealth than Mitt Romney just by looking at them.

A look at the data suggests that at graduation ceremonies on U.S. college and university campuses, it's liberals only.We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal Americans.

Las políticas de austeridad están "sangrando" a España para intentar que recupere la salud, medicina que podría resultar fatal según el profesor Robert Skidelsky, que acaba de publicar en castellano "la biografía definitiva del economista más influyente de nuestro tiempo": John Maynard Keynes. "Keynes propondría dar vitaminas al paciente, no sangrarlo", asegura...

Juraría que ninguna idea distrae al presidente mientras contempla las tareas de gobierno, quiero decir, de demolición

Ya sea aduciendo peregrinas desavenencias o sacando a relucir el deformado esperpento del tripartito, las hostilidades contra Compromís no cesarán

If this were a human soldier, with all of his moral failings, we'd point the finger at him and prosecute him. We'd blame him. But how do you blame a machine?

Number of primary schools with more than 1,000 pupils has risen by 60% in past three yearThe number of supersize primary schools – some of which have more than 1,000 pupils – has soared by 60% in three years, triggering a fierce debate among educationists about whether tens of thousands of young children are getting the attention they need.Department for Education...

Very few people would vote for a government because it brought them a casino; a good number, believing the casino would be destructive to their community, would vote against the government for that reason

IRS, AP, Benghazi … this past week, the president has been forced to confront a series of damaging scandals that could derail his second term before it has really begunIt is not a comparison that many people thought would ever get much traction.But, assailed this week by multiple scandals and at the mercy of a furious press, President Obama has endured a legion of pundits...

It was the Popular Party that fuelled the property bubble

Erstmals in der Geschichte der EU wurde eine Studie in den 27 Mitgliedsstaaten inklusive Kroatien zur Situation von Lesben, Schwulen, Bisexuellen und Transgender-Personen (LGBT) durchgeführt, bei der die Betroffenen selbst zu Wort kamen. Von teils "schockierenden Ergebnissen" sprach der Niederländer Friso Roscam Abbing von der EU-Grundrechteagentur (FRA): So habe etwa...

Liberal leader displayed her leadership qualities during the B.C. election by being persistent, narrowing the focus and setting ambitious goals

Cridland rejects possibility of Norwegian-style deal as Tories show divisions over billThe head of Britain's most powerful employers' organisation today issues a blunt warning about the risks of quitting the European Union after the Conservative party signalled the beginning of a drawn-out parliamentary battle over plans for an in-out referendum by 2017.John Cridland,...

Federal Liberal MP says he would create new inspector-general position at city hall

Plus de marges pour les entreprises, moins de contraintes administratives, moins de dépenses publiques : le Président a consolidé ses orientations centristes en matière économique.

Liberal Democrat Colin Payne has spent much of the two years since his election in 2011 in Manila with his Filipino bride Jackie who he met on holiday.

Federal Liberal MP says he would create new inspector-general position at city hall

La orden para que deje España será cursada de forma "inminente". Las fuentes desvinculan la decisión del soberanismo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite a major push by liberal groups, federal securities regulators are not currently drafting a rule to require public companies to disclose their political spending, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White told lawmakers on Thursday.

Cada día que pasa resulta más evidente que nos encontramos ante una trampa de la liquidez del tamaño de la Antartida

The Liberals made debt and the economy the two central issues – areas the broader electorate clearly did not have confidence the NDP could handle

Use our interactive to see how votes in ridings across British Columbia have swung

The Liberal government has amended regulatory law to give the Ontario College of Pharmacists authority to inspect drug-preparation premises and stipulate where hospitals purchase their drugs.

Ms. Clark returned the Liberal Party to office in British Columbia Tuesday night but voters in her own riding shunned her

Premier-elect says polls don’t say how people will vote, will wait until official results before choosing where to run in a by-election

The British Columbia premier’s Liberal party won an unlikely re-election by campaigning on the economy – at a time when the province’s economic performance looks more like a political liability than a strength

La crisis sobre la Unión Europea llega al seno de la coalición británica con un intercambio de ataques por el referéndum

PM promotes 'clear Tory policy' of reform and referendum, saying Clegg, Miliband and others have heads in the sandDavid Cameron has criticised Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband over Europe, saying they are sticking their heads in the sand by claiming Britain should accept everything that emerges from the EU.Speaking a few hours before a key vote in the Commons on Europe, and...

Online retailer's tax charge brings to £6m the total corporation tax raised from Amazon.co.uk in a decadeAmazon's main UK subsidiary paid just £3.2m in tax last year, according to accounts filed on Wednesday, despite overall UK sales of £4.2bn.Amazon's taxes for last year are only marginally higher than the £2.5m the company received in government grants during the...

Industry was wary about the prospect of an NDP government and what kind of impact that would have on business in the province

The Liberals’ current clout is essentially due to the Parti Québécois’s appalling unpopularity

B.C. Premier Christy Clark says opinion polls don't chose governments -- the voters do. In her victory speech after the Liberal's surprise election win, Clark said her party will honour what voters have bestowed on them.

Why human rights advocates should stop worrying about the phantom fear of autonomy.

Tea Party groups mired in red tape as liberal groups easily get tax-exempt status.

Tories step up pressure on Lib Dems to agree to draft bill citing 'hypocrisy' of party's abandoned 2010 pledge The dispute about Europe intensified on Tuesday as the Conservative party co‑chairman Grant Shapps challenged Nick Clegg to show courage and back a draft in/out EU referendum bill, accusing the Liberal Democrats of "complete disdain" for the...

Follow along after 8 p.m. PT as the electoral fates of B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark, B.C. NDP Leader Adrian Dix, B.C. Green Leader Jane Sterk and B.C. Conservative Leader John Cummins are decided and a new British Columbia government is elected. To use the map, hover your mouse over a riding or click the list icon at top right for a full list of ridings.

The independent former Conservative senator issued his first statement since last week’s release of audit reports and committee reports on living expenses claimed by Mr. Brazeau, former Liberal Senator Mac Harb and Conservative Senator Mike Duffy

Party leaders, including Liberal Christy Clark, New Democrat Adrian Dix and Green Jane Sterk campaign around British Columbia on the day the province votes.

European commission carries out 'unannounced inspections' to investigate claims oil companies colluded to manipulate pricesThe London offices of BP and Shell have been raided by European regulators investigating allegations they have "colluded" to rig oil prices for more than a decade.The European commission said its officers carried out "unannounced inspections" at several...

Forceful Austrian position signals deep EU divisions on Syria ahead of this month's embargo decision"Die Briten sind not amused," is how Die Presse reported it today. "The Brits are not amused." The Austrian foreign ministry circulated a discussion paper (known in Brussels jargon as a non-paper) among the EU member states yesterday forcefully rebutting British and French...

Peter Penashue’s defeat in the Labrador by-election marked a confluence of politics and policy

The I.R.S. should have scrutinized every group seeking a tax exemption for “social welfare” activity — Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal.    

The song "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" that heralds the climax of this episode is about the comedy in unmatched relationships, in pairing yourself inappropriately in accordance with your station. Yet that's the theme of this episode -- love, silly love, in all of its sick permutations. Once again into the breach! In an [...]    

Prime minister says his move towards an in/out referendum on EU membership shows he is master of his partyDavid Cameron has denied that he has been panicked into rushing forward a draft bill for an in/out referendum on Britain's EU membership in the hope of calming the Tory party on Europe.The draft bill provides for a referendum by 2017 on the question: "Do you think...

Rebel MPs say they will press ahead with amendment to Queen's speech and urge PM to face down Lib Dems over EUDavid Cameron's attempt to douse the Eurosceptic surge within the Conservative party by announcing he will publish a draft bill on an EU referendum appears to have failed to quell backbench discontent over Europe.Rebel MPs said they would press ahead with an amendment...

BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese authorities have shut down or frozen the microblog accounts of several prominent liberal intellectuals and harassed rights lawyers lobbying against unofficial "black jails," underlining the determination of the country's new leadership to control dissent even as it vows to root out corruption....

If B.C. votes the way polls suggest it will, the province could be facing a new battle with both Ottawa and Alberta