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Dreamliner to fly by end of 2008

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Boeing has confirmed its 787 Dreamliner will make its first flight in the final three months of this year.

Obama pledges new direction on Latin America

Courting another key constituency in the swing state of Florida, Barack Obama today outlined what he calls a new approach for Latin America distinct from the Bush administration's failed policies. Speaking to the Cuban American National Foundation, the Democratic front-runner called for direct diplomacy throughout the hemisphere to advance democracy and promote American values and ideals, to immediately allow Cuban Americans unlimited family travel and remittances to the island, to create an Energy Partnership for the Americas...

Carter urges 'supine' Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade

Describing the EU's position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as "supine" and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as "embarrassing", former American president Jimmy Carter said it should break from the US.

Is this the end of the Rainbow nation?

The world watched in horror last week as a wave of attacks on immigrants in South Africa should how lawlessness, economic deprivation and corruption has destroyed the bright dawn of Mandela's post-apartheid dream.

US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war

WASHINGTON - If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.

Riding on a sheep's back - PETA versus Australian wool

In recent months, PETA's campaigning has induced dozens of retailers to boycott or phase out Australian wool in protest at the controversial practice of "mulesing", a grim operation which involves cutting away swathes of skin around the backsides of Merino sheep.

Activist wants Bush arrested on arrival

Minneapolis activist will ask that President Bush be tried for war crimes. Ed Felien wants Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to convene a grand jury.

United States Sanctioned Massacre of Korean Civilians

An official from the Bush Administration recently lectured me on why south Koreans who express anti-American sentiments are misguided and misinformed about the history of our two countries. I actually thought it was a pretty funny statement coming from an administration so clueless about other societies. Here's another reason why we should be more critical of such statements ...

Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link - Food Inc.- msnbc.com

Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

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