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Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:39:07 +0000

Democrat Barack Obama says Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear...

Israeli paper publishes Obama Western Wall prayer

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:48:44 +0000

A written prayer that Barack Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, asks God to guide him and guard his family, an Israeli newspaper reported...

Obama mulls refreshing US-Europe ties

Desh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:36:00 +0000

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on the first leg of his European tour in Berlin, has said he plans to shake up transatlantic ties. Obama, who arrived in the German capital from Israel, met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The...

Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:38:10 +0000

Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.

Views of voters on Obama's overseas trip

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:25:11 +0000

Quotes from people in the United States on Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s trip to Europe and the Middle East:

Obama scraps visit to wounded US troops in Germany

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:20:41 +0000

Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his campaign said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a...

Obama, FAKING IT

John — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:00:14 +0000

Opinion Maggie Gallagher OBAMA FAKING ITTue Jul 22, 7:58 PM ET Obama has a problem: What do you do when you’re a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no...

Hagel chides candidates on Iraq

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:04:02 +0000

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop arguing over the success of last year’s troop...

Hagel chides McCain on Iraq

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:40:56 +0000

Obama scraps visit to wounded troops

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:09:36 +0000

Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a...