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...than pressing the flesh with laid-off workers or drought-stricken farmers in the Outback. Rudd is the consummate globalized citizen, and makes a point of reaching out to those in other nations who share his sense of international community. "He'll put in a full day in the Parliament and then, because of the time difference, call world leaders way into the night," says Michael Fullilove, director of the global-issues program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Rudd's late-night conversations, one presumes, turn...
...investigation into the prostitution allegations came to any embarrassing conclusions, that Berlusconi might have to step down, opening the way for a caretaker government headed by someone like Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi or Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti. But don't count Berlusconi out yet. Perennial challengers like parliament Speaker Gianfranco Fini on the right and former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema on the left, have largely lost credibility in the face of their opponent's political savvy. Italian politics is beginning to look like a season of Celebrity Survivor. And not only is Berlusconi the reigning champion...
...Israel's top diplomat than because of his knack for saying decidedly undiplomatic things. Lieberman believes that Israel's Arab citizens, who make up nearly 20% of the population, should be forced to sign oaths of loyalty. He has advocated the death penalty for Arab members of parliament who meet with members of Hamas. He calls the Obama Administration's push to curb the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank a "mistake." It's not the kind of language you'd expect from a Foreign Minister, but Lieberman, 51, doesn't care. "I don't like political correctness...
...introductory phase of Barack Obama's foreign policy ambitions concluded on July 11 before the Ghanaian Parliament, when a solo trombonist sounded a few ceremonial notes. Obama had just finished his fourth major address on international affairs in as many months, and a few hours later, he would depart home to Washington from his fourth overseas trip...
...Following his Liberal Democratic Party's bitter defeat over the weekend in Tokyo's municipal elections, Prime Minister Taro Aso announced the lower house of the Japanese parliament will be dissolved on July 21 and a general election will be held Aug. 30. Aso's decision ended months of speculation as to when his battered administration and fellow LDP lawmakers would finally have to face voters. The country's last general election was in September 2005. (See pictures of Japan and the world...