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By Michael Freedman from Newsweek Why is it that increasingly shrill right-wing attacks on Barack Obama almost invariably cast him as a nasty European? Last July, Rush Limbaugh, the radio pundit with almost 15 million weekly listeners, said Obama's comments on the campaign trail reveal he "would prefer to be running for president... 

Medical authorities in central China have discovered more than 1,300 cases of suspected lead poisoning in children, state media said Thursday, in the second such incident this month. Authorities in the city of Wugang in Hunan province have shut down a smelting plant and detained two of the company's executives on suspicion of... 

Japan's opposition Democratic Party may be headed for a landslide election victory, trouncing the conservative party that has ruled for most of the past half-century, a leading newspaper said on Thursday. The Democrats could win 300 of the 480 seats in parliament's lower house while the long-ruling Liberal Democrats may see...