ISRAEL`S Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today he would step down in September after a party leadership vote, announcing the end of a premiership dogged by graft investigations
IRAQ forces supported by US troops laid siege to the city of Baqouba and arrested 35 suspects today, the second day of a major assault on al-Qaeda fighters in dangerous Diyala province
ISRAELI troops shot three Palestinians with rubber bullets in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics say
A SAUDI appeals court upheld a jail and flogging verdict against a biochemist and his female student whose research contact was ruled to be a front for a telephone affair that led her to divorce her husband
Obama has until now spoken too much rhetoric and not enough solutions. This speech could be a turning point for him. It's great. Any criticism that this particular speech is either too rhetorical or not doing enough to distance him from his pastor (who admittedly does appear to have said some dumb things) has totally missed the point of his speech, which is that people feel the way they do for good reasons, and moving forward involves everyone, black white or anything else, accepting that.
Posted by: Dave of Morphett Vale SA 4:40pm today
It doesn't matter you think of him, the US elections have become compulsive viewing the world over. I was watching at home on the couch.
Posted by: Andrew Onley of Brisbane 4:40pm today
If I could vote... I'd sure as hell vote for Obama.He's the one candidate that can save the US
Posted by: Tom of Brisbane 4:26pm today
obama made a great and moving speech.translating his ideas and ideals into legislative action is an entirely different issue. let us hope he can do it far, far better than bill and hillarydid it in 1993.that said i feel more inclined to support obama rather than hillary.
Posted by: david j daffey of sydney 4:24pm today
Previously an Obama sceptic, I'm now a believer. He's the real deal, he has the Mandela factor. His march to White House is now unstoppable.
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