Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Senator Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to put America’s “unbreakable” bond with Israel at the heart of his foreign policy. He also said he would work to “eliminate” the threat posed by Iran to security in the Middle East and around the world, AFP reports. “There’s no greater threat to Israel or to the peace and [...]

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From France to Turkey to India, people around the world are gripped by the excitement of the U.S. primaries, writes Simon Robinson in Time magazine.
Foreign media coverage of the primary process so far has been unprecedented.
Some think it’s way too much — back in January, for instance, the BBC’s reporting drew scores of complaints [...]

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Si puo’ fare: it’s how you say YES WE CAN in Italian and it’s all the rage as Italy braces for yet another snap election next month. Si puo’ fare is the slogan for Democrat Walter Veltroni, the former Rome mayor now running for Prime Minister against controversial media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. A professed admirer [...]

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Members of the Kennedy family have recently flocked to Obama’s side. His supporters are thrilled, but why exactly?

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