Presidents

Mexican president’s allies lead in key elections (AP)

July 5th, 2010

A federal police officer guards a polling station in Ciudad Victoria, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico, Sunday July 4, 2010. A dozen Mexican states held elections Sunday after a campaign marred by assassinations and scandals that displayed drug cartels' power, including the killing a week earlier of Rodolfo Torre the former frontrunner for governor of Tamaulipas state, whose brother ran in his place. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s party appeared headed to a triumph Sunday in a longtime stronghold of the former ruling party and was in a tight race for the…

Poland holds vote after president’s air-crash death (AFP)

July 4th, 2010

Poles vote Sunday in an election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, in what looks to be a tight race between his bereaved twin and the governing liberals' candidate. Pitting ex-prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski (pictured) against acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, it marks the latest chapter in a bitter power struggle between the two camps.(AFP/Wojtek Radwanski)AFP - Poles vote Sunday in an election forced by the air-crash death of conservative president Lech Kaczynski, in what looks to be a tight race between his bereaved twin…

2 passengers in cockpit before Poland president’s plane crash (AP)

May 19th, 2010

Flight recorders of the Tu-154 that crashed on April 10 killing Poland's president and 95 others are on display at Russian Interstate Aviation Committee in Moscow Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Officials investigating the plane crash say the crew did not have regular training and that passengers were in the cockpit before the crash. (AP Photo)AP - At least two passengers visited the cockpit of Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s plane before it crashed last month, and others may have chatted on cell phones, possibly affecting…

Protesters blast Haiti president’s quake response (AP)

May 10th, 2010

A demonstrator, holding up an image of Haiti's former President Jean-Betran Aristide, reacts amidst tear gas during a protest against Haiti's President Rene Preval in Port-au-Prince, Monday, May 10, 2010. Police fired tear gas outside the ruins of Haiti's national palace to control about 2,000 demonstrators calling for Preval's resignation in the largest political protest since the Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Police fired tear gas outside the ruins of Haiti’s national palace Monday to control 2,000 demonstrators calling for President Rene Preval’s resignation in the largest political protest since…

Gunfire at deposed president’s rally in Kyrgyzstan (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Supporters of the ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev hold posters at a rally in the centre of Jalalabad, April 13, 2010. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovAP - Gunfire broke out at a rally where the deposed president of Kyrgyzstan was speaking to supporters Thursday. Kurmanbek Bakiyev was hustled into a car and driven from the…

Polish president’s body returns to Warsaw (AP)

April 11th, 2010

A mourner prays in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, April 11, 2010, after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday April, 10, 2010, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - The body of President Lech Kaczynski has returned to Poland. His twin brother met the plane and will accompany the body to the presidential palace.


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Poland awaits return of president’s body (AP)

April 11th, 2010

People place lighted candles and flowers for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in front of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, in Chicago, Saturday, April 10, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's most prominent military and civilian leaders died Saturday April 10, 2010 along with dozens of others when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Poland was enveloped in mourning Sunday, with many attending church services to mark the loss of President Lech Kaczynski and many of the country’s elite in a plane…

Polish president’s plane crashes in Russia; 87 die (AP)

April 10th, 2010

AP - Officials say a plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife has crashed in western Russia and that at least 87 people have been killed.

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Presidents Bush, Clinton visit devastated Haiti (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

Former US Presidents Bill Clinton (R) and George W. Bush listen as US President Barack Obama speaks about relief efforts following the earthquake in Haiti, during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 16, 2010. The former presidents will seek to reassure Haitians with a visit Monday that the world has not forgotten them.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)AP - Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton clasped hands with residents of one of Haiti’s massive tent cities Monday on a tour of its quake-devastated capital —…

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