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New Orleans asks: Will the rebuilt levees hold?
The Charlotte Observer

NEW ORLEANS Just three years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans confronts a new threat from Gustav and a stark question: Will the partially rebuilt levees hold? Despite $2 billion in improvements, including 220 miles of repaired, raised and replaced floodwalls, 17 new pump stations and more flood-resistant pump stations, nobody can say for sure...
photo: FEMA / Barry Bahler

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Saakashvili's folly
International Herald Tribune

: The overwhelming reaction from America and Europe on the Russian riposte to Georgia's attack...

Russia to respond militarily to U.S. missile shield
Infowars

Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said Russia will have to respond...

Why Georgia's on my mind
Seattle Times

KYIV, Ukraine - The conflict in Georgia revealed problems that extend well beyond our region....

Putin blames US for war

Russian President Vladimir Putin, gestures speaking during his meetin with Uzbekistan´s President Islam Karimov in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 9, 2007. The 11th St. Petersburg Economic Forum, opened on Saturday in St. Petersburg, is one

Sydney Morning Herald

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has shocked Europe by using the giant American broadcaster, CNN, to accuse his US counterpart, George Bush, of creating the war in Georgia as a plot to install John McCain as his successor. In the most...
photo: AP /RIA-Novosti, Presidential Press Service, Dmitry Astakhov

Obama seeks a personal touch within a huge stadium

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., applauds as he walks across the stage after his running mate, Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del

The Examiner

The State - 12 hrs ago Barack Obama was unveiling a delicate balancing act Thursday, trying to get personal with 75,000 supporters in a massive stadium and millions more at home while explaining how as president he would make a difference in their...
photo: AP / Ron Edmonds

Stocks jump on better-than-expected GDP, jobs data

A trader watches a monitor while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, July 11, 2008 in New York. Wall Street's angst over the ongoing fallout from the credit crisis made for a turbulent end to a volatile week Friday _ stocks tumbled, soared and then turned south again as investors tried to assess the dangers faced by the country's biggest mortgage financiers, Fannie Mae and Freddie

The Boston Globe

NEW YORK—Wall Street barreled higher Thursday after a better-than-expected reading on the gross domestic product and a drop in jobless claims gave investors some reassurance that the economy is holding up. The Dow Jones industrial average...
photo: AP / Jin Le

The divided and broken city of Kirkuk faces up to the curse of oil

The Times

It should be Iraq's biggest success story. Beneath the soil of Kirkuk lies oil worth billions of dollars - the world's sixth-biggest reserve. Yet there is no sewerage system, the roads are cracked, rubbish is strewn all over the pavements,...
photo: WN / Jamal Penjweny

Mugabe threat to rule alone

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, left, and his wife Grace, right, react during a visit to Harare hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, Thursday, March 27, 2008. Mugabe donated hospital equipment to the government owned hospital ahead of elections to be held on March

Canberra Times

Zimbabwe's veteran ruler, Robert Mugabe, would defy the opposition and form a new government despite the stalling of talks on power-sharing after contested polls, his deputy information minister said yesterday. ''Nothing is going to stop us from...
photo: AP Photo /

Poverty killing on a grand scale: WHO

Slum Area - Houses built along the riverbanks of Davao River - Poverty - Pollution - Davao City

Canada Dot Com

GENEVA - A "toxic combination" of poverty and social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, a World Health Organization report said Thursday, urging states to fund healthcare to cut inequalities. The Commission on the Social Determinants of...
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal

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