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The U.S. presidential election season and political conventions are bizarre animals. Europeans and non-Americans in general marvel at and are intimidated by the frenetic activity, a mixture of glitz and shtick. It is loud. It is crazy -- what can only be described as typical Americana.
More than any previous American election, this year's extraordinary presidential contest has caught the world's imagination.
Russians are starting to count the costs of Vladimir Putin's policies in a way that may yet return to haunt them.
America's allies in Europe welcomed the choice of Sen. Joe Biden as Democratic running mate; they could be wrong.
The extraordinary meeting of NATO's foreign ministers Tuesday reached an uneasy and unsatisfactory compromise over their response to Russia's military incursion into Georgia.
Led by France and Germany, the European Union is planning to create its own super-spy agency, called a "central intelligence unit," that would require its 27 member states to pool information from their intelligence agencies and in the process undermine the longstanding special relationship between Britain and the United States.
Russian bullying and the Georgian crisis were widely predicted, but a feeble NATO and a U.S. presidency that has forgotten how to lead have combined to made the world a more dangerous place.
A top oil industry analyst sees oil rising to $200 a barrel because of under-investment, stock market pressure to return profits to shareholders and nationalized oil companies that can maximize their income by limiting supply.
The United States faces a second wave of financial crisis as the slowdown starts to spread to emerging markets.
Iran ignores the latest deadline on suspending nuclear enrichment, but speaks of "common ground" and "a new start" with the United States. But Iranians may be just as confused about U.S. policy.
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