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  • July 2008

    • Obama Beefs Up Foreign Policy Cred in Iraq

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 22, 08 8:30 AM CDT

      Obama Beefs Up Foreign Policy Cred in Iraq

      Presidential candidate Barack Obama's weeklong tour of seven countries has so far been fruitful, politically agile, and especially lucky, reports the New York Times . The Illinois senator's withdrawal plan received a timely endorsement from Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, coinciding with President Bush's embrace of a "time horizon" for pulling troops out of the war-torn country. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Iraq  • John McCain  • Iraq war  • United States  • Nouri al-Maliki  • troop withdrawal

    • Iranian Official Balks at Start of 6-Nation Talks

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jul 19, 08 7:40 AM CDT

      Iranian Official Balks at Start of 6-Nation Talks

      Tehran has ruled out freezing its uranium enrichment program, casting doubt over the value of talks between Iran and six world powers less than an hour after they started. The Geneva talks—with the US in attendance for the first time—had raised expectations of possible compromise on a formula under which Iran would agree to stop expanding its enrichment activities, which can produce either fuel for nuclear power stations or the material used in warheads. More »

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      Iran  • United States  • nuclear enrichment  • UN sanctions  • UN Security Council  • uranium enrichment  • six party talks

    • So-Called 'New Powers' Are Acting Spineless

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 16, 08 10:03 AM CDT

      So-Called 'New Powers' Are Acting Spineless

      Critics of unchecked and amoral American power should be wary of prospective new world hegemons—especially China, Russia, and South Africa, Thomas Friedman warns in the New York Times . America's international popularity has plummeted under President Bush, but it's the more popular countries that have been acting unconscionably on the world stage. More »

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      China  • Russia  • United Nations  • United States  • Robert Mugabe  • UN sanctions  • UN Security Council  • anti-Americanism

    • Russia, China Nix UN Embargo on Zimbabwe

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 11, 08 6:41 PM CDT

      Russia, China Nix UN Embargo on Zimbabwe

      Russia and China today threw out a UN resolution to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe for its violent presidential election, Reuters reports. Nine countries supported the US-backed sanctions, which would levied an arms embargo and restricted the travel and finances of officials, including President Mugabe. But five nations voted against it, calling the resolution unworthy of the UN Security Council. More »

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      China  • Russia  • United Nations  • United States  • Zimbabwe  • Zimbabwe elections  • UN Security Council  • UN resolution

  • June 2008

    • Global Econ Puzzle Awaits New President

      newser  |  Financial Times (UK)  |  Jun 27, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Global Econ Puzzle Awaits New President

      Whether it's John McCain or Barack Obama, the next president will confront a global economic landscape unlike anything his predecessor confronted, write Robert Hormats and Jim O'Neill. In an op-ed for the Financial Times , the two Goldman Sachs executives explain that the new president's greatest challenge will be the rise of emerging economies, whose share of world GDP has doubled since George W. Bush took office. More »

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      election 2008  • United States  • Goldman Sachs  • globalization  • economics  • developing countries

    • Candidates Exploit Muslim-Jewish Divide

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 26, 08 6:05 PM CDT

      Candidates Exploit Muslim-Jewish Divide

      The presidential candidates are ignoring—even insulting—American Muslims in the hope of grabbing the Jewish vote, write Salam Al-Marayati and Steven B. Jacobs in the Los Angles Times . McCain and Obama have on several occasions snubbed Muslims, who seem to be the victims of modern McCarthyism—just substitute terrorism for communism. It's a "disturbing trend" that must stop, write the co-members of an interfaith peace group. More »

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      election 2008  • United States  • Islam  • America  • Muslim  • Judaism  • Jewish

    • US-India Civilian Nuclear Deal Delayed Again

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 25, 08 2:44 PM CDT

      US-India Civilian Nuclear Deal Delayed Again

      A landmark deal between the US and India to share civilian nuclear technology faces uncertain prospects today after the Indian government announced it had failed to persuade a dissenting political group to back the pact, the Wall Street Journal reports. The White House has been pressing India to ratify the deal so it can go before Congress before President Bush leaves office. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Congress  • India  • United States  • nuclear power  • nuclear power plants  • Manmohan Singh

    • Roosevelt. Reagan. Obama?

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 25, 08 7:26 AM CDT

      Roosevelt. Reagan. Obama?

      The novelty of minorities seeking the White House has occluded the more profound historical importance of this year's contest, Gary Hart says. The 2008 election is a hinge moment that could usher in a new era in American life, writes the former senator in the New York Times , and a victorious Barack Obama would have a chance to define "the next cycle in American history." More »

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      Barack Obama  • United States  • Democratic Party  • history  • Gary Hart

    • Chavez: US Confrontation 'Inevitable'

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  Jun 23, 08 3:25 AM CDT

      Chavez: US Confrontation 'Inevitable'

      With the US distracted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been busy amassing a Latin American power bloc to blunt Washington’s influence. But the firebrand leader, who calls President Bush “the devil” and the US “the empire,” is receiving level-headed advice from none other than Fidel Castro, writes Jon Lee Anderson in a New Yorker profile. More »

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      George W. Bush  • United States  • oil  • Colombia  • Venezuela  • Cuba  • Fidel Castro  • Alvaro Uribe  • Hugo Chávez

    • In Mexico's Drug War, US Guns Fire Shots

      newser  |  Portfolio  |  Jun 22, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      In Mexico's Drug War, US Guns Fire Shots

      When Mexican authorities seize a cache of weapons from a drug-cartel hitman, their first call is long distance: to the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Because, Portfolio reports, chances are any gun used in Mexico’s noxious drug war—which has left close to 10,000 dead since 2001—was made in the US and smuggled through the leaky border. More »

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      United States  • Mexico  • drug trafficking  • drug war  • border control  • ATF  • Sinaloa drug cartel

    • At Last, US Gas Consumption Starts to Fall

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 19, 08 8:07 AM CDT

      At Last, US Gas Consumption Starts to Fall

      The price of gasoline quadrupled over the last decade, but Americans responded by driving more and more in ever-larger gas guzzlers as if nothing had changed. But $4 gas combined with an economic black hole may have finally gotten the message across, reports the New York Times, as American gasoline consumption is set for its first annual decline in 17 years. More »

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      oil price  • gas prices  • United States  • gas  • energy consumption

    • Ping-Pong Got Ball Rolling to Beijing Games

      newser  |  Sports Illustrated  |  Jun 12, 08 12:43 PM CDT

      Ping-Pong Got Ball Rolling to Beijing Games

      It wasn't statesmen who broke China's 22 years of isolation from the West in 1971, but rather, Sports Illustrated notes, grown men with paddles. When Glenn Cowan accidentally jumped on the Chinese team bus during world table-tennis championships in Japan, star Zhuang Zedong brushed aside Mao's anti-capitalist harangues to greet the American and start building a bridge that will lead to August's Beijing Olympics. More »

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      China  • United Nations  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • United States  • Mao Zedong  • Ping Pong diplomacy  • table tennis

    • Kennedy Back Home in Mass. After Surgery

      newser  |  WBZ 4  |  Jun 9, 08 12:09 PM CDT

      Kennedy Back Home in Mass. After Surgery

      Sen. Ted Kennedy returned to his Massachusetts home today, a week after undergoing a chancy surgery to remove part of a malignant brain tumor, WBZ-TV reports. The Democrat's plane landed at a Cape Cod airport around 11:30 this morning, the Boston Globe adds; Kennedy, 76, told reporters it was “good to be home." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Senate  • United States  • Ted Kennedy  • brain cancer  • Cape Cod  • Duke University Medical Center.

    • Oil Prices Threaten US-Saudi Relations

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 8, 08 6:46 AM CDT

      Oil Prices Threaten US-Saudi Relations

      The weakening dollar and rising oil prices are marring more than just the American economy: It’s also eroding the long-standing friendly relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, the Los Angeles Times reports. A bleak economic outlook has cost the US clout with its oil-producing ally. “There’s certainly a perception that the power equation has changed,” said an oil analyst. More »

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      George W. Bush  • China  • oil price  • United States  • Saudi Arabia  • OPEC  • Asia  • oil production

    • Blood Sugar Control Can Kill Diabetics

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Jun 6, 08 7:05 PM CDT

      Blood Sugar Control Can Kill Diabetics

      Intensive blood sugar control can actually provoke heart attacks and strokes in some diabetes patients, USA Today reports. Scientists canned one US study 4 months ago after high-risk diabetes 2 subjects died more often under aggressive treatment. In another study, blood-sugar control helped their kidneys, but failed to stop heart-related deaths. More »

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      United States  • drugs  • diabetes  • heart attack  • stroke  • scientific study  • type 2 diabetes

    • US Visitors Face Tough New Rules

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jun 3, 08 3:18 AM CDT

      US Visitors Face Tough New Rules

      Visitors to the US who don't need visas will have to register personal information online before traveling this summer, reports ABC News. The information will be used for background checks and scrutiny of travel plans. European officials have threatened to introduce similar rules in retaliation. The new regulations would apply to travelers from 27 countries operating under the visa waiver program. More »

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Health History Hidden in Urine

      newser  |  Times (UK)  |  Apr 21, 08 10:07 AM CDT

      Health History Hidden in Urine

      Urine does indeed hold metabolic clues, researchers have found, and could shed light on blood pressure and heart problems, the Times of London reports. "Metabolic profiling can tell us how specific aspects of a person’s diet and how much they drink are contributing to their risks for certain diseases"—something DNA research can't do, says one of the scientists involved. More »

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      China  • Japan  • United Kingdom  • United States  • public health  • metabolism  • urine cultures

    • On Pope's Heels, Brown Arrives in America

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 16, 08 7:42 AM CDT

      On Pope's Heels, Brown Arrives in America

      The pope might be commanding the headlines, but another world leader is in America this week—Gordon Brown arrived in New York yesterday for a three-day visit. In an op-ed for today's Wall Street Journal , the British PM announces a raft of initiatives designed to fortify the "special relationship," from business link-ups to a joint cancer research program. More »

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      United Nations  • United Kingdom  • United States  • Gordon Brown  • Ben Bernanke  • Transatlantic trade

    • US Catholics Like Benedict, but Not Rome

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 15, 08 7:18 AM CDT

      US Catholics Like Benedict, but Not Rome

      As Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his first visit to America, a Washington Post poll finds that the pontiff enjoys wide support among US Catholics. Nearly three in four say that they have a positive impression of Benedict. But the poll also reveals that most Catholics find the church out of sync with their personal views, and that many remain pained by the clergy sex abuse scandal. More »

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      United States  • religion  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • Pope Benedict's US visit

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