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Lately, the People’s Republic has been in the bad habit of making ever larger investments with questionable African regimes. A week before Obama’s tour, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao promised to lend Africa $10 billion in low-interest development loans over the next three years and to forgive many older interest-free loans made to less developed nations...
...needed a bigger stage. Only 36% of Americans now think even more troops will improve the American position in this war, according to a recent CBS News poll, including just 17% of Obama's Democratic base. So the President's aides needed to upgrade the setting, interrupt the networks' prime-time lineups and tug a bit harder at the nation's patriotic heartstrings. (Read the full transcript of Obama's speech...
...famous for lacking a sense of humor." It would be hard to blame them, given the circumstances. In an alarming security breach, the Salahis managed to schmooze with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and a slew of other top figures at the ornate event honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. (Photos of their VIP hobnobbing were promptly posted on Facebook.) Though the couple passed through metal detectors, observers noted that they could have potentially smuggled in anthrax or other unconventional weapons as well as espionage tools like electronic listening devices. The House Homeland Security Committee has scheduled hearings...
...back to 1833. Although he only formally became Dubai's ruler in 2006 upon the death of a brother, he has been the driving force behind the emirate for three decades. Of equal importance, his ambition and competence have made him a leading figure - presently serving as Vice President, Prime Minister and Defense Minister - in the United Arab Emirates, the country created by a confederation of seven Arab sheikdoms in 1971. No leader in the U.A.E., or perhaps in the Arab world at large, can rival Sheik Mohammed's global connections in politics and business...
...Northern League, founded in 1991 on a platform to separate the richer northern regions from the rest of Italy, is as strong as it has ever been. It is now a key ally in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's majority in Parliament after garnering 10% of support in the last national election on a campaign focused on deepening worries about crime and the economy. Last week, the league floated (but then withdrew) a measure in Italy's budget bill that would have capped unemployment benefits for foreign-born workers. (See a story about how the Northern League roils even...