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World News
From The Financial Times
- US jobless rise fuels fears on economy
- The US unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped to a five-year high of 6.1 per cent, according to Labor Department figures, suggesting a bleaker picture of the world's largest economy
- Bush to decide on troop numbers in Iraq
- George W. Bush will next week decide whether to maintain the current level of US troops in Iraq, potentially leaving the next big decision on Iraq policy to his successor
- Obama attacks Republicans over convention
- Barack Obama tried to shift the struggling US economy back to the centre of the presidential campaign after a Republican national convention dominated by the politics of character and culture
- Jobs data add to fears on outlook
- The worse-than-expected US jobs report does not indicate a sudden drop in the labour market, but suggests the losses are running at a faster rate than previously thought
- Republicans draw faith from St Paul
- Supporters sense a renewed chance of winning a third term in the White House, writes Andrew Ward
- US unemployment figures
- The jobless rate has risen from 5.7 per cent to 6.1 per cent, a five-year high
- US military trained Georgian commandos
- The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia's army assault in South Ossetia in August
- Candidate puts faith in playing military card
- Stephanie Kirchgaessner on why John McCain is focusing so tightly on his life-changing prison experience
- 'Maverick' aims for unifying message
- John McCain would be forgiven a pang of jealousy over the Republican party's overnight infatuation with Sarah Palin
- McCain seizes on theme of 'change'
- John McCain accepted the Republican presidential nomination by seeking to wrest the mantle of change from Barack Obama in a speech that mixed appeals to patriotism, criticism of Washington and a promise to work with political foes
- Obama acknowledges merits of Iraq surge
- Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, said in an interview with Fox news that the troop surge in Iraq had succeeded beyond his – or anyone else's – expectations, adding that he believed the US was fighting a war on terror
- McCain pins his hopes on job creation
- John McCain is hoping that a focus on job creation will trump Barack Obama's promise of a $1,000 tax credit for middle-class Americans in the battle for blue-collar voter
- Palin is catapulted into starring role
- Sarah Palin, the Republican party's vice-presidential candidate, had been catapulted into starring role at a rejuvenated St Paul convention.
- Cheney pledges US support for Georgia
- Dick Cheney, the US vice president, pledged that Washington would stand behind Georgia, helping rebuild the country's economy and promoting Georgian efforts to join Nato to protect against Russian aggression
- FT series: On the borderline
- All along the 2,000-mile frontier separating Mexico from the United States there are signs that a common border culture integrating northern Mexico with the southern US is breaking apart. But the ties binding the countries remain powerful.
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