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World News
From The Financial Times
- Cheney accuses Russia of using 'blunt force'
- The US vice president broadened his attack on Russia, directly challenging Vladimir Putin's view of history and warning that his government could 'not have it both ways' by using 'brute force' and still hoping to build economic progress
- 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
- '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
- India and US strive to satisfy nuclear doubters
- The US and India redoubled their efforts yesterday to overcome resistance to granting New Delhi an exemption from non-proliferation rules, as the Indian government...
- 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
- McCain fails to sizzle as convention closes
- It was a night of balloons and confetti, but after ten days of rousing speeches and back-to-back, and often rollercoaster, conventions, John McCain's acceptance speech came as something of an anti-climax
- 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
- Inexperience is no barrier, say admirers
- Sarah Palin has faced mockery over the fact her last job before becoming Alaska's governor was mayor of a former gold-mining town, but one Republican believes she is a great running mate
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