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...campaign offered its first detailed look at Obama's schedule for the remainder of the weeklong international trip. After dinner Tuesday night with Abdullah, Queen Rania, Hagel, Reed and a number of other Jordanian officials, Obama will fly aboard his campaign charter to Jerusalem, where he is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Likud Party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama will visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Memorial, then meet with President Shimon Peres. From there, he departs for Ramallah in the West Bank, where meetings are scheduled with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime...
...charter for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was signed on July 21 with much flourish and a promise to "strengthen democracy, enhance good governance and the rule of law, and to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms." An admirable undertaking, except that the person formally ratifying the charter was Nyan Win, the Foreign Minister of Burma, a country with one of the world's most appalling human-rights records. Indeed, Burma's signing of the document during this year's ASEAN ministerial meeting in Singapore threatens to render meaningless the lofty humanitarian goals...
...acceptable. Once again, Aristide would be a figurehead, a symbol the world could toast as Haiti's real power was held by goons. Having heard nothing by Saturday afternoon, Cedras seemed to budge again. In an interview with TIME's Ed Barnes, Cedras waved a copy of the U.N. Charter as he declared the U.S. embargo ''illegal.'' Nevertheless, he said, ''I don't want to renegotiate Governors Island. Just a few interpretative problems'' need resolution. ''We've given up a lot but the other side has given nothing.'' ''Right,'' says a senior U.S. offical...
...Cambodia's sole application for World Heritage status?as opposed to a joint bid by both countries?nationalists in Thailand were up in arms. The constitutional court then ruled that Noppadon's decision to support Cambodia's bid without consulting parliament first was unconstitutional because under Thailand's charter, any agreement with another nation should pass through the legislature...
...Discovery Coast, as Queensland's northernmost surfing spot is known, a longboarder's paradise. Tanned, blonde wahines - that's lady surfers, if you aren't up on the argot - navigate waist-high waves. The area is also a magnet for pro surfers, but they eschew the small stuff and charter boats out to the nearby southern fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, where perfect, empty barrels unload onto jagged coral. When it's flat, there's good fishing and diving...