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THE votes are in, the pollsters are gone and the pundits have finally shut up...Australians preferred Barack Obama to John McCain by four to one, and half say Senator Obama will be good for Australia, according to a survey by the US Studies Centre at...
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Months before Tuesday's election, John McCain and Barack Obama were secretly planning for a job only one of them will face, transitioning their political campaigns into a governing machine. The new president will have a transition of just 77 days from...
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The Pakatan Rakyat state government has come under fire for sending a 52-member trade delegation to South Korea during the global economic crisis. Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan questioned the effectiveness of the trip, saying the state government...
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Democrats are headed toward historic gains in Tuesday's congressional elections, polls show, as well as herculean challenges afterward on matters from war to Wall Street...Bush and the worst U.S. economic crisis since The Great Depression, Democrats may...
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Barack Obama has tried to distance himself from the hard-line policies President George W. Bush adopted in his first term to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons. Obama has played up his willingness to continue direct talks with North Korea, which...
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Like George Bush, John McCain wants to tax your health care benefits for the first time in history, and let insurance companies keep discriminating against people who need health care the most...But after what we've seen on Wall Street, isn't it obvious...
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Republicans, fearing the loss of the White House and more seats in Congress, are warning of the dangers of effective one-party rule, observers say. With Democratic opponents increasingly confident of an Election Day victory by presidential nominee Sen....
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A new non-proliferation group warns the world is on the brink of a massive increase in nuclear weapons. The global organization has spent the past two days in Sydney looking at ways to strengthen international agreements to halt the spread of nuclear...
Tags: bush, george, lima, nuclear weapons, India
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday spoke over phone with his US counterpart George W. Bush about international cooperation to cope with the ongoing global financial turmoil. The leaders exchanged ideas about the planned international financial summits...
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The Government this week announced a $10.4 billion spending package to counter a slowdown in economic growth expected as a result of the financial crisis. In a newspaper interview today Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner did not rule out using tax cuts to...
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