New Orleans still awaits federal aid
NEW ORLEANS (AP): First came the floodwaters, then the paperwork. Billions of promised federal dollars to fix New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure have gone largely untapped a year after Hurricane Katrina.
Most Israelis want Olmert to quit
JERUSALEM, (Reuters): Sixty-three per cent of Israelis want Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign in a sharp public rebuke over his handling of the war in Lebanon against Hizbollah, a newspaper poll showed yesterday.
Thousands welcome Obama
NAIROBI, (Reuters): Excited crowds mobbed U.S. Senator Barack Obama yesterday at the start of a four-day visit to Kenya, his father's homeland, but he harshly criticised corruption in the east African country.
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