WASHINGTON: The US White House race tightened Saturday after new
opinion polls suggested Barack Obama’s shine was wearing off and
Republican John McCain was gaining ground in several important
states.
Some 200,000 people in Berlin greeted the
Illinois Democratic senator like a rock star as he continued his
weeklong foreign tour visiting crucial hotspots and important
allies, demonstrating his foreign policy credentials in the race to
be the next US president.
A legal battle between banana farmers and environmentalists reached
the Supreme Court on Friday with a petition to ground crop dusters
blamed for health problems and ecological damage.
BELGRADE: A deadline loomed Friday (Saturday in Manila) for Radovan Karadzic to appeal his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal, as more details emerged about his life on the run and his assets came under threat of confiscation.
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