How They See Us
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Obama’s domination of Europe
feature It took “lifesaving interference" from Obama to force European leaders to quit bickering and agree on a bailout for the Euro.
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Unfairly blaming Pakistan
feature Pakistanis react to the failed Times Square bombing.
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How they see us: Sending Noriega to France
feature The U.S. is extraditing Manuel Noriega to France instead of Panama, a move the former dictator spent the last three years fighting and one that prevents a full accounting of his crimes in his own country.
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Obama’s Katrina moment?
feature More than a week passed after the explosion of the BP drilling rig before Obama visited the Gulf Coast, and by then the oil spill was the size of Jamaica.
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Was Iranian defector a double agent?
feature Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, disappeared in May 2009 and recently resurfaced at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., claiming to have been kidnapped and tortured by the CIA.
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Only America is helping Pakistan
feature In the two weeks since monsoon floods submerged 20 percent of the country, some $100 million has been pledged in aid—more than half of it from the U.S.
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A U.S. ‘terrorist’ finds no mercy in Peru
feature Released on parole in May after serving 15 years of a 20-year sentence, Lori Berenson was sent back to prison this week because she failed to properly notify police of a change in address.
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How they see us: Is Middle East peace a U.S. delusion?
feature Both Israelis and Palestinians voice doubt that a solution to the region's problems is at hand.
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How they see us: Suddenly noticing Mexico’s drug war
feature With the deaths of two Americans killed by drug dealers in Juárez, the U.S. finally feels the weight of Mexico's drug war, a war fueled primarily by U.S. weapons and the U.S. market for drugs.
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Why the Swiss freed Polanski
feature French-born filmmaker Roman Polanski was freed from house arrest after a judge ruled that the extradition request was incomplete and had to be thrown out. His arrest had been a mistake in the first place.
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The power of Michelle Obama
feature Forbes has just named the U.S. First Lady the most powerful woman in the world.
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Demonizing BP and the British, too
feature Whither BP and the "special relationship"?
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Murdering murderers
feature How Europe reacted to the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner, a prisoner on death row in Utah who was killed by a firing squad.
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How they see us: So many Russian spies, so few secrets
feature The FBI’s claim that 11 Russians have been covertly spying in the U.S. for years cannot be taken at face value, said Yevgeny Shestakov in Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
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