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Washington (AFP) Nov 4, 2010 Chinese President Hu Jintao has topped US President Barack Obama on the Forbes list of most powerful people, with the magazine pointing to Hu's sweeping powers and the stinging defeat of Obama's democrats in legislative polls. Thursday, the magazine said Hu was the world's most powerful person, saying he "exercises near dictatorial control over 1.3 billion people, one-fifth of world's population." "Unlike Western counterparts, Hu can divert rivers, build cities, jail dissidents and censor Internet without meddling from pesky bureaucrats, courts," it said. Hu topped Obama, last year's most powerful person, whose Democratic Party suffered major losses in congressional elections on Tuesday. Forbes said it was "quite a comedown" for Obama, "who after enacting widespread reforms in his first two years in office will be hard-pressed to implement his agenda in the next two." King Abdullah of oil-rich Saudi Arabia came in third, followed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Pope Benedict XVI. Forbes magazine last month listed First Lady Michelle Obama as the world's most powerful woman. The magazine, whose editor Steve Forbes is a former Republican presidential candidate, infuriated the White House in September by running an essay saying Obama was consumed by "anti-colonialism" inherited from his Kenyan father.
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NATO, Russia must 'bury ghosts' at landmark summit: chiefMoscow (AFP) Nov 3, 2010 NATO's chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen Wednesday called on the alliance and Russia to "bury the ghosts" of past Cold War enmity at an upcoming summit to be attended by President Dmitry Medvedev. The Russian president is to attend NATO's Lisbon summit on November 19, marking a major thawing in relations after the crisis caused by the war between Russia and the pro-Western ex-Soviet state of Georg ... read more |
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