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MIDEAST: In Israel, Obama Looks to Votes Back Home
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg

JERUSALEM - Lighting a remembrance flame at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. Speaking against the backdrop of a pile of empty rocket casings in the southern town of Sderot. Standing solemnly, face close to the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

EUROPE: Germans Love Obama – For Now
Julio Godoy
BERLIN - The extraordinary enthusiasm with which Germans greeted U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in Berlin Thursday may have concealed a fear: once the presidency of George W. Bush ends, Germans might be forced to close ranks with the U.S. and go back to playing the role of military junior partner of a superpower at war.

POLITICS-US: Latino Voters Heavily Favour Obama
Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is preferred by a nearly a three-to-one margin over his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, among Latinos who are registered to vote, according to a major new poll released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Centre.

Bush at War Part II

In Focus: Iraq

Economy and Trade

> U.S. Accuses Trading Firm of Manipulating Oil Market
> Gender Focus Urged for U.S. Aid
> NGO "Blacklist" Unfair and Arbitrary, Groups Say
> Laundromat Royale

> In Israel, Obama Looks to Votes Back Home
> Germans Love Obama – For Now
> Latino Voters Heavily Favour Obama
> Bush, U.S. Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal

> NGO "Blacklist" Unfair and Arbitrary, Groups Say
> Unions, Groups Coalesce For Universal Coverage
> Tourism's New Wave
> Neighbours Try to Reclaim Polluted Valley

> Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil
> Corals Collapsing in More Acid Oceans
> Funding Questions Dog Everglades Clean-Up
> Mexicans Protest Canadian Mining Company

> Gender Focus Urged for U.S. Aid
> U.S. Sliding By Nearly Every Measure
> China Poised to Surpass U.S. Economy by 2035
> Tourism's New Wave

> Gender Focus Urged for U.S. Aid
> NGO "Blacklist" Unfair and Arbitrary, Groups Say
> New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
> Gov't Slow to Defend Guantanamo's "Child Soldier"

> Activists Hail US Senate Approval of Major AIDS Bill
> Unions, Groups Coalesce For Universal Coverage
> UN Predicts 12 Billion if Family Planning Falters
> Vets Mull Wins and Losses in Benefits Fight

Media & Communications

> New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
> What the Most-Seen Photographs Say
> Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah
> Bush Inspires Least Confidence as World Leader

Multilateralism Under Siege

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FINANCE: U.S. Accuses Trading Firm of Manipulating Oil Market

POLITICS: Bush, U.S. Military Pressure Iraqis on Withdrawal

DEVELOPMENT: Gender Focus Urged for U.S. Aid

RIGHTS-US: NGO "Blacklist" Unfair and Arbitrary, Groups Say

ENERGY: Solar Thermal Power Coming to a Boil

US/IRAN: Scowcroft, Brzezinski Urge Bush to Drop Precondition

POLITICS-US: New Spying Law Quickly Challenged

CANADA: Gov't Slow to Defend Guantanamo's "Child Soldier"

US/IRAQ: McCain Knee-Capped by Al-Maliki

RIGHTS-US: Hamdan Case to Test Military Tribunals

Latest Global News

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LEBANON: Syria Comes In From the Cold

MIDEAST: In Israel, Obama Looks to Votes Back Home

CULTURE-SOUTH AFRICA: Made in Khayelitsha, Sold in New York

EUROPE: Germans Love Obama – For Now

UAE: US-Iran Detente Viewed With Caution

POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Malay-Muslim Call Shakes Opposition Unity

BURMA: UN Missions Draw Derision

POLITICS-US: Latino Voters Heavily Favour Obama

More than 300 million strong, the world's indigenous peoples are beginning to make themselves heard, in international arenas like the new United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and at the national level, where their growing numbers are translating into political muscle. Via its local writers, IPS endeavours to transmit these indigenous voices and untangle their issues for a global audience

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