The decision that would launch one of the most intense and improbable negotiations in the history of U.S.-China relations was made in the space of hours — and it was sparked by a series of phone calls to the American Embassy. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — President Obama, delivering a commencement address to nearly 600 female graduates of Barnard College, urged young women Monday to strive for leadership positions and become more politically involved. Read full article > >

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North Korea on Monday accused the South’s government and news media of slandering its leadership and threatened “special actions” by the military.

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A series of videos appeared online Saturday purporting to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's regime to evade capture, deriding Iraq's current leadership.

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The ouster of Bo Xilai, the party chief in Chongqing, points to possibly the most serious division in the party elite since the leadership upheavals during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

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BEIJING — China’s Communist Party censors on Friday closed several “new left” Web sites, and a fourth, pro-reform site run by the Carter Center went off-line, as the country’s rulers sought to stifle divergent voices and muffle signs of an ideological struggle ahead of a crucial leadership change this fall. Read full article > >

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SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — The race for president shifted dramatically Friday into a general election matchup between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney as the candidates delivered dueling, sharp-tongued speeches about the president’s leadership. Read full article > >

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Ramy Nagy, is an emerging leader that understands the requirement to adapt, lead and influence people towards a common goal. As a member of the Young Leadership Committee’s Board of Directors for Seeds of Peace, Ramy co-chairs significant fundraising and awareness initiatives, works with other board members and YLC members on growing the YLC through expertise and volunteerism. Ramy also founded Beena, which is a platform for inspiring projects that encourage participation, innovation and making a difference in the world. Beena means “by us” as in “made by us” in Egyptian colloquial Arabic. Ramy took his experiences with and then created MADEO, which is a unique branding and design firm that has been helping clients since 2006 in the Middle East and the United States. We got a chance to speak to him.

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A top defector from the Syrian military is urging armed rebel groups to align and follow the leadership of the Free Syrian Army.

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A House Committee issued a memo Friday tying former U.S. senator and former New Jersey governor Jon S. Corzine to a major transfer of funds out of MF Global , the brokerage firm that collapsed under his leadership with $1.6 billion of customers’ money missing. Read full article > >

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The Penn State Board of Trustees has issued a statement to re-iterate what its members have said before : they chose to fire Joe Paterno as football coach because of an alleged failure to follow up on a report of alleged child sex abuse by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Read full article > >

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The government should step up support for wave and tidal power in order to preserve the UK’s global leadership, says an MPs’ committee.

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On the stump, GOP White House hopeful and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney “loves dichotomies,” write Michael Kranish and Scott Helman in a forthcoming book. “Strong versus weak, stagnation versus prosperity, leadership versus drift.” Read full article > >

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In the first year of Race to the Top, the Obama administration’s signature effort to reform education, Maryland met its obligations, but the District has fallen behind schedule because of leadership turnover within its school administration, according to a report card to be released Tuesday by federal officials. Read full article > >

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Ed Miliband has defended his leadership of the Labour party and has described himself as “someone of real steel”.

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