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

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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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VIDEO: Miliband: I have ‘clear plan’ for Labour

Ed Miliband has defended his leadership of the Labour party, insisting he has a “very clear plan” for the future.

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Nominations open for the Plaid Cymru leadership, with four assembly members putting themselves forward so far to succeed Ieuan Wyn Jones.

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The Obama administration’s counterterrorism accomplishments are most apparent in what it has been able to dismantle, including CIA prisons and entire tiers of al-Qaeda’s leadership. But what the administration has assembled, hidden from public view, may be equally consequential. In the space of three years, the administration has built an extensive apparatus for using drones to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists and stealth surveillance of other adversaries. The apparatus involves dozens of secret facilities, including two operational hubs on the East Coast, virtual Air Force cockpits in the Southwest and clandestine bases in at least six countries on two continents. Read full article > >

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Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing

You’ve probably never heard of Pattie Sellers. But Warren Buffett has. And so have Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah Winfrey and Indra Nooyi. It’s an enviable list, really. They’re among the many who’ve joined Sellers at the Most Powerful Women summit. This year, from a slightly raised stage, she looks out once more across table upon table of some of the world’s most prominent female executives, artists and philanthropists. It’s the opening dinner of Fortune magazine’s annual summit on a surprisingly chilly October evening on the Southern California coastline. The 400-plus guests sit under a big, white tent on a cliff perched over the gray, choppy Pacific. Inside, the Ritz-Carlton has pulled off something that looks a lot like prom: purple sequined tablecloths and settings of pink roses illuminated by purple and pink floodlights. Read full article > >

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The Rolodex that redefined power

TOKYO — With North Korea deeply mourning its “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong Il , the government in Pyongyang tried to reassure its people Monday with a message about Kim’s son, the “Great Successor.” “Under the leadership of Kim Jong Eun,” North Korea’s state-run media said, “we should turn our sorrow into strength.” Read full article > >

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After Kim Jong Il’s death, N. Korea tells country to rally behind the ‘Great Successor’

Sportswriters and cultural thinkers have developed a fascination with Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and his leadership qualities. They’ve put this fascination in print many times over, to the point that one (relatively) seamless essay can be produced paragraph-by-paragraph by borrowing from the Tebow-fascination oeuvre. See key at bottom of post. Read full article > >

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Tim Tebow: The composite puff essay

Republican candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday launched his first sharp attack on rival Newt Gingrich — choosing to focus on Gingrich’s leadership as House speaker and using old colleagues to paint him as vain, erratic and unreliable. The effort began in earnest with a morning conference call with the news media, in which James M. Talent, a former congressman and senator from Missouri, and John Sununu, who had been chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, ripped into Gingrich. Read full article > >

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Romney supporters slam Gingrich’s leadership skills, vanity

DES MOINES — Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign launched a coordinated assault Thursday on former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s leadership, temperament and commitment to a conservative agenda. The Romney campaign deployed two top surrogates — former senator Jim Talent of Missouri, who served under Gingrich in the House, and former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who worked with Gingrich as a White House chief of staff — to accuse Gingrich of “self-aggrandizement.” Read full article > >

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After he left Congress, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made tens of millions of dollars from corporate clients, who paid his health-care think tank up to $200,000 a year for “access to top transformational leadership across industry and government.” Gingrich also bragged about his success in pushing conservative policies and legislation in Washington during his political exile. Read full article > >

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Only Germany can save the euro zone, therefore Germany must — such is the refrain heard around the world. For non-Germans, it is increasingly hard to understand why the country is not moving forcefully to stop the debt crisis. This past week’s coordinated action by the world’s top central banks to strengthen global lending only underscored the need for urgent action in Europe. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who sees the continent “ on the edge of a precipice ,” made a dramatic appeal Monday for leadership from Berlin: “I fear German power less than I am beginning to fear German inactivity,” he declared . Read full article > >

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Why isn’t Germany stepping up to save the euro zone?

In a real crisis, like say if an asteroid threatens to strike the planet, I want Tim Tebow as my leader. I don’t want Randy Edsall, with his faux-militaristic carping , or Bruce Boudreau, with his abrupt shifts from buddy talk to deafening profanity . “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another,” Tebow told his team solemnly last week, quoting Proverbs. If anyone else said that, the room would erupt into hooting laughter. When Tebow said it, people believed in him. Read full article > >

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In sports, there’s no faking leadership

The sanctions, which are unprecedented, were being considered because of Syria’s crackdown on protesters seeking the ouster of the leadership in Damascus.

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Arab League Prepares to Vote on Syrian Sanctions

It’s Tuesday at the King Greenleaf Recreation Center, hard off N Street in Southwest Washington, and LaRon Landry is handing out some 500 turkeys to families in need. With his volunteers from Leadership for Life — his nonprofit for underprivileged youth in the District — Landry poses for pictures, gives hugs and makes most everyone smile on a dreary, gray day. Read full article > >

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LaRon Landry’s fortunes will be telling for the Redskins