President-elect Barack Obama announced as expected that Hillary Clinton would be his top diplomat and Robert Gates would stay on as defense secretary. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday officially introduced the members of his national security team, including former Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and Robert Gates, who will be [...]
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Sorry if it sounds like I’m drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google’s executives said we should: speed. Years ago, Firefox won me over chiefly with plug-ins, tabbed browsing, and some security advantages. But using Chrome removed a bit [...]
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AP photographer tracks down family of terrified children split by war Editor’s note: Associated Press photographer Jerome Delay’s photo of two terrified girls separated from family in Congo’s chaotic war leads to a search for their relatives. This is his account. Eleven-year-old Protegee carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives [...]
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The U.N. Human Rights Council, frequently accused of coddling some of the world’s most repressive governments, threw itself a party in Geneva Tuesday that featured the unveiling of a $23 million mural paid for in part with foreign aid funds. In a ceremony attended by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo told [...]
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Barack Obama’s election on Tuesday set off international celebrations and ignited a fervor for the United States that has been unseen since the days immediately following the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. To some observers, the international reaction has elevated America’s president-elect to an unparalleled post: president of the world. In Kenya, where Obama’s father [...]
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