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...When I'm looking for something I've dropped on the carpet, I have a bit of a problem." ANGELA MERKEL German Chancellor and chair of a European Union summit that will ban 27 E.U. nations from using conventional lightbulbs by 2010; Merkel conceded that new energy-saving bulbs are "not yet quite bright enough...
...beat his left-wing opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, by only half a percentage point. Losing Mexico, the U.S.'s third largest trading partner, would have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush arrives in the Yucatán on March 12 for a summit with Calderón to discuss the hemispheric issue most urgent to the U.S.--illegal immigration--his host will be a rare ideological soulmate in America's backyard...
...today in Hanoi for bilateral discussions aimed at normalizing relations between the two nations. (Like the U.S., Japan has never established official diplomatic connections with North Korea.) But while American negotiator Christopher Hill happily characterized his meetings with the North Koreans earlier this week as "very constructive," Japan's summit with the North never got off the ground. North Korea pulled out of a planned session yesterday afternoon, and today's talks lasted just 45 minutes. And guess what? It may be Japan's fault...
...little else, President Bush has learned one valuable thing about Latin America since his last visit to the region: how to duck the protests. In 2005, at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Bush was greeted by violent demonstrations and angry speeches from leftist leaders like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But the five countries Bush has chosen for his six-day Latin America tour that starts today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, are led by either kindred conservatives or more moderate leftists. And the venues he's visiting are often far from metropolis hotbeds of anti-yanqui...
...When Japan's chief negotiator told reporters before the talks that the return of the abductees was his "main objective," it was clear the meetings were unlikely to go anywhere. Normally the blame for failure would fall squarely on North Korea's negotiators, who never met a summit they couldn't stall. But this time Pyongyang may have a point. If North Korea really is telling the truth - admittedly, an unusual occurrence - and there are no surviving abductees, there may be little that Pyongyang can do to satisfy Tokyo's demands...