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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves to the audience during his arrival at the Victory Column in Berlin Thursday, July 24, 2008.

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama - 'A World that Stands as One'
WorldNews.com

(Transcript of of Barack Obama's Berlin speech) Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome. I come to Berlin as so many of my...

photo: AP / Miguel Villagran

Opinion Worldwide

Mosley did not deserve the law's protection
The Times

If we were concerned with American rather than European law, we might describe Mr Justice...

Diplomas Won't Make Jihadis Go Away, Barack
Creators Syndicate

Podcast available through: If you like Michelle Malkin, you might enjoy David Limbaugh Ben...

Obama's Iraq Spotlight
Creators Syndicate

Podcast available through: If you like Robert D. Novak, you might enjoy Pat Buchanan Ben...

Administration to push Congress hard on India deal, says Rice

Secretary Rice held a dialogue on transformational diplomacy with State Department employees. (gm1)

Dawn

PERTH, July 24: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday the Bush administration would push the US Congress hard to agree to a civilian nuclear deal with India before President George Bush leaves office. India said this week it would...
photo: US State Department/Michael Gross

McCain: Overshadowed, not overcome

Star Tribune

COLUMBUS, OHIO - Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign recovered from a near-death experience almost exactly a year ago, and political candidates stumble in and out of troughs all the time. But it is safe to say that McCain is not having a...
photo: Creative Commons / Flickr

Market slumps on NAB debt fears

The Australian

THE share market has opened over 3 per cent lower after National Australia Bank (NAB) took an additional provision of $830 million on its exposure to US sub-prime crisis and stocks fell over 2 per cent in the US overnight. At 10.15am (AEST) the...
photo: AP / John Pryke

Karzai 'protecting drug lords'

Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivers a speech during a function in Kabul, Afghanistan

Al Jazeera

A former senior US anti-drug official has accused Afghanistan's president of playing the US "like a fiddle" and protecting drug lords in his country for political reasons. Thomas Schweich, who until June serve as US state department co-ordinator for...
photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool

Japan stocks up 2 pct as exporters gain on soft yen

A Tokyo street scene is reflected on a financial market video board Monday, March 31, 2003. Tokyo stocks fell Monday morning as investors were discouraged by declines on Wall Street and the prospect of a prolonged war in Iraq. The benchmark 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 206.06 points, or 2.49 percent, to end morning trading at 8,074.1

International Herald Tribune

: Japanese stocks rose 2 percent on Thursday, and looked poised to mark a four-week closing high, as Toyota Motor Corp and other car makers led gains by exporters on a softer yen and a drop in oil prices. Toray Industries and Mitsubishi Rayon surged...
photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi

Italy, Libya on verge of deal

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi looks at reporters inside his tent prior to a meeting with French President Jacques Chirac at the former Presidential Palace in Tripoli, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004. Chirac ended Thursday a two-day visit to Libya, the first by a French president since Libya's independence from Italy in

TVNZ

Jul 25, 2008 10:05 AM Libya and Italy will soon seal a deal worth "billions" to compensate for the European country's three-decade colonial rule, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's influential son said on Thursday. "In the next weeks, Libya will sign a...
photo: AP / Francois Mori

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