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...Less than three months later, there was another breakthrough. On Sept. 17, Obama scrapped the Bush Administration's plan to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe, which had been seen by Russia as a blatant military threat. Even Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was impressed. He had been icy toward Obama during their July meeting - there were certainly no hugs and smiles like the ones he gave Iran's President in Tehran in 2007. But in September, Putin called Obama's decision to ax the missile shield "correct and brave," and Russia's threat to "neutralize" Bush's plan...
...seen since the Colombian drug cartels' wave of terrorism 20 years ago. "It proves that we've yet to see the worst from the narcos," who are already responsible for almost 20,000 killings in Mexico over the past decade, says Lucinda Vargas, head of the community-development organization Plan Estratégico de Juárez. (See pictures of Mexico's drug wars...
...with a date set for the end of the American occupation, U.S. influence in Iraq is already waning. Ironically, the best proof of that is the rise, once again, of Ahmad Chalabi. The formerly exiled leader of the Iraqi National Congress - an anti-Saddam dissident group - helped the Pentagon plan the invasion of Iraq and was the candidate of U.S. neoconservatives to be the country's new leader. Chalabi fell out with the U.S. in 2004 and has reinvented himself as a Shi'ite nationalist allied with the Sadrists. As the co-head of a secretive government de-Baathification committee...
...most important up for grabs in 2010, given the Sunshine State's bellwether status - looked like a walk on the beach for Crist, who led some polls by almost 30 points. Since then, Crist's bipartisan style, including his embrace of President Obama's $787 billion economic-stimulus plan and his performance as recession-racked Florida's chief executive, have come under withering assault from GOP loyalists. Rubio tops most surveys now by double digits; in one released last month by Republican pollster Tony Fabrizzio, he leads Crist 52% to 27% among self-identified Florida conservatives. (Read about...
...departed in a helicopter to observe the demonstration's effects on Bangkok's notoriously bad traffic as the capital braced for the night ahead. By Monday afternoon, protesters were heading back to the main rally site in Bangkok's old quarter, where the leaders were set to meet and plan their next move...