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...Foreigners flocked to the public park in Jakarta to honor the U.S. President, who lived four years of his childhood in the Indonesian capital. Locals visited, too, but they weren't as pleased. "Indonesians mostly came to protest," says park groundskeeper Yunus. "They didn't want the statue here." Less than three months after a local Obama fan club raised $10,000 for the monument, it was quietly moved in February to a nearby school where Obama had studied. "I'm not against Obama," says Protus Tanuhandaru, one of the Indonesian founders of a Facebook page that collected nearly...
...Jakarta city workers used the cover of darkness to relocate the young Barry's statue, top U.S. diplomatic envoys were in Beijing to repair foundering relations with the world's third largest economy. Meanwhile, Japan, the world's No. 2 economy, has been calling for a more "equal" (read: less submissive) relationship with the U.S. That's because the Democratic Party of Japan, which came to power last year for only the second time in half a century, won votes by pledging to break with past governments that hewed too closely to American foreign policy. (See pictures of President Obama...
...with so much history - and past conflict - to be able to speak with one foreign policy voice. Perhaps they never will. But one thing is certain: Europeans have learned that to live together peacefully, many points of view need to co-exist. That may be interpreted as presenting a less-than-robust political presence on the world's stage, but, in my opinion, it shows the richness that makes up the European identity, which is plainly prominent on the world stage...
Obama expects to spend less than 6 hours on the ground, meeting first with the recently reelected Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, followed by a larger meeting with Karzai's cabinet. Later he will attend a rally with about 2,000 troops at Bagram Air Base, and he plans to visit with wounded soldiers at the base hospital. "We plan to engage president Karzai," said National Security Advisor James Jones, in a briefing during the flight, "to make him understand that in this second term there are things he has to do." Among the issues on the table: government...
...that Italians don't enjoy freedom of expression. The problem is that until recently there haven't been many outlets where they could effectively exercise it. Newspapers are generally tied to political parties or industrial concerns, resulting in a press that seems less written for the general public than for politicians and other insiders. But most striking is Berlusconi's domination of the airwaves. In a country where 80% of people get their news from television, he owns the three biggest commercial stations and maintains influence over the three public channels (RAI among them), whose governing boards are appointed...