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H1 NYT Iraqi Premier Tells Iran Not to Fear U.S. Presence

Energy Scenarios to 2050: Implications for US Energy Security Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive, Royal Dutch Shell (audio, video)

Der Spiegel A Threat to Global Peace: UN's ElBaradei Speaks of 'Historic Turning Point' in Nuclear Policies

Brother-in-law plotted to topple Syria's Assad?

LA Times New forces fraying US-Saudi oil ties Surging prices, along with a weak dollar and an oil-thirsty Asia, have blunted America's leverage with the key oil producer and helped sour the two nations' relationship

Washington Post At the Tip of Iran's Spear By David Ignatius, Let's try for a moment to put ourselves in the mind of Brig. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Iran Urges Closer Defense Ties With Iraq Tehran Increasingly Uneasy About Baghdad's Proposed Security Pact With U.S.

No Time for 'Nobody Home' By Richard Armitage and Michèle A. Flournoy, The early months of 2009 may well be the most precarious period in recent American history.

Return of the Purple Fingers This Time, Iraq Needs Rules That Put the People Ahead of the Party Bosses By Scott Carpenter and Michael Rubin, This time, Iraq needs rules that put the people ahead of the party bosses.

Clinton Urges Backers to Look to November 'We Will Someday Launch a Woman Into the White House'

Each Party Is Set to Hunt The Other's Usual Ground By Dan Balz

Financial Times Now it is time for Obama to be more ordinary If he is to reach the White House, the Democratic nominee will need to make his policies – on Iraq, on Iran, on the economy and healthcare – more detailed. He must show a franker recognition of the costs and benefits than he has shown so far, writes Clive Crook

Europe must build an alliance with China Charles Grant weighs a new multilateral order. As proponents of multilateralism, Europeans are best placed to make the case to China for working through international institutions

Maliki allays Iran fears on US presence WORLD NEWS: Iraq denies it is to be US springboard into Iran The Iraqi prime minister tried to allay Iranian concerns about a possible US-Iraqi treaty that might provide for a long-term US troop presence in Iraq

Bush to press Europe on Iran sanctions The US president will push European leaders to step up financial sanctions against Iran, in what is likely to be his last extended presidential visit to the continent

Newsweek Why It’s Worse Than You Think

For months, economic Pollyannas have looked beyond the dismal headlines and promised a quick recovery in the second half. They're dead wrong

Zakaria: How to Get Back to Growth | Newsweek Voices - Fareed ...

New York Times Clinton Ends Campaign With Clear Call to Elect Obama Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made an emotional and unequivocal appeal for her voters to get behind Senator Barack Obama Video and Transcript

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

People vs. Dinosaurs Before dismissing prospects for Israel’s longevity, Iran’s toxic president should remember that while his country invests in oil, Israel invests in its people, a renewable resource.

Iraqi PM: US-Iraq security pact will not harm Iran

Iraqi PM assures Iran on security Iraq's PM says his country will not be used as a base to attack Iran, reflecting concerns about the US presence there.

Obama's Many Positions on Iran - Matthew Continetti, Weekly Standard

Obama, McCain Seek to Redraw Electoral Map - Dan Balz, Washington Post

Haaretz Report: Syria foiled attempted coup by Assad's brother-in-law

Short on Ahmadinejad, Long on Buffett - Thomas Friedman, NY Times

Muslim Extremists Turn On Bin Laden - Paul Cruickshank, NYDN

West Is 'Resigned' to Iran Bomb: Israeli Minister

Barack Obama: The winner — Barack Obama will sweep aside John McCain and make history by becoming the first black US president, saysAndrew Sullivan

Gallup Daily: Obama 46%, McCain 44%

Tom Barnett Scripps Howard U.S. sits pretty in global food trade network

Independent on Sunday Obama or McCain? How will America fare under the 44th commander-in-chief? Fast forward to 2012 to see how the US and the world fares under America's 44th commander-in-chief. Rupert Cornwell, one of the most experienced and eloquent observers of the nation's politics, gazes into the future and delivers his verdict on each man's first term

The Changing Nature of State Sponsorship of Terrorism
Source: The Brookings Institution Full Paper (PDF; 610 KB)

Energy in Danger: Iran, Oil, and the West Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Full Document (PDF; 2.5 MB)

Iran and the Problem of Evil - Michael Leeden, Wall Street Journal opinion

Al-Qaeda: The Cracks Begin to Show - Abul Taher, Times of London

Washington Post Bush Is a Lame Duck. Bush-Bashing in Europe Is, Too. By James Forsyth

The Homegrown Young Radicals Of Next-Gen Jihad By Marc Sageman

We are fighting the wrong foe.

'Bush Lied'? If Only It Were That Simple. By Fred Hiatt

A Return to Wooing America

By Jim Hoagland

Helena Cobban Bush SOFA push collapsing

OSC: Iraqi Government Defends Negotiators in SOFA Talks

2 GIs Killed, 18 Wounded; Al-Maliki Tries to Reassure Tehran; Mudarrisi Denounces Security Accord

Guardian Globalisation is good

Peter Mandelson: Brown knows it, and the US must learn it too: our economic welfare depends upon it

Israel tries to downplay Iran attack threat Transportation minister Shaul Mofaz had raised the prospect of an Israeli attack against Tehran

The Observer Democrats in rural strongholds refuse to give backing to Obama The conservative Appalachian heartlands voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton - and will switch to McCain in November

Fear, disillusion and despair: notes from a divided land as peace slips away As millions across Afghanistan suffer the fallout from social and economic collapse, the West is in danger of losing the peace, finds Peter Beaumont

IHT Facing the challenges to come By JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET In 20 years, when the euro will be 30 years old, the world economy's center of gravity will have shifted.

Roger Cohen: The good American and Monsieur Obama By ROGER COHEN Right now, in French eyes, there's a single good American: the Democratic Party nominee, Barack Obama.

Steven A. Cook on Iran's strategy in the Levant

Iran sees oil at $150 a barrel this summer...

The Times Obama has the wind behind him The world is crying out for an idealistic American president — and the Democrat candidate fits the bill

William Rees-Mogg

Iraq want US troops kept in barracks There is mounting pressure from Iraq to get US troops off the streets and consigned to a background role

Bush begins farewell tour of Europe On the agenda this week will be ways to pressure Russia to halt anti-democratic moves and increased internal repression

Sunday Times Al-Qaeda: the cracks begin to show Terror group’s support in Islamic countries falls off dramatically

Cold recoil as oil goes higher on the boil Yes, Opec is profiting from the soaring prices but the real blame for holding the West over a barrel lies elsewhere

Jerusalem Post Analysis: Mr. Security and Mr. Politics

Why did Mofaz toss his reputation as a dependable ex-general we can count on in times of danger?

Misgivings on the road to Damascus [ JONATHAN TOBIN

Analysis: Out of luck in Gaza

[ YAAKOV KATZ, Hamas's rocket attacks, which have killed 18 since 2007, force Israel's hand.

The anatomy of China’s export growth Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers Full Report (PDF; 269 KB)

Wall Street Journal The Weak-Dollar Threat to World Order
By Judy Shelton Maintaining a stable currency is a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative.

Independent Leading article: A knife-edge vote that rings an alarm bell for Europe

How Different Will the 2008 White House Map Look From '04 and '00?

McClatchy Credit crisis expands, hitting all kinds of consumer loans

Did Pakistan Test a North Korean Bomb?

H 2 FT Headscarf ruling puts Erdogan at risk WORLD NEWS: Once unassailable Erdogan slips into precarious position The Turkish prime minister is in a precarious political position after suffering a stinging legal rebuff to one of his most cherished policies

Guardian Families seek redress for Turkish incursions British lawyers seek compensation for deaths and damage inflicted in northern Iraq upon Kurds

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