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...election, global trouble spots were vying for the President-elect's attention. "This is my first demand of the new President of the United States - to put an end to civilian casualties," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday in Kabul, following reports that a U.S. bombing in southern Afghanistan Monday killed 37 people at a wedding party, most of them women and children...
...than two weeks ago, Obama had suspended his campaign to make a 22-hour trip home to Honolulu for a last visit with his 86-year-old grandmother, who had been in poor health for a long time. The Illinois Senator learned of her death around 8 a.m. on Monday, but carried on with his campaign schedule without making it public until late in the afternoon. "He was prepared for it, and he knew. I think he was very, very gratified that he had been able to say goodbye," his chief strategist David Axelrod said, in explaining Obama's stoicism...
There was more bad news for the embattled government of Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner on Monday, when a Miami court convicted a Venezuelan secret agent of attempting to cover up an alleged illegal donation to her 2007 election campaign by Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez. Justice Minister Anibal Fernández accused Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini Wilson, a Key Biscayne resident who collaborated with the FBI to secure the conviction of his former associate Frank Duran in Miami yesterday, of "being paid to say what he says." But that's unlikely...
...flew his private Boeing jet into Aberdeen airport in 2006 and announced, with typical Trumpian bombast, that he intended to construct a billion-dollar-plus development on the dunes that would include the "greatest golf course ever constructed," he set the stage for a protracted conservation battle that on Monday reached the highest level of Scottish government...
...proof that Scotland can "go it alone" without tax subsidies from London. Aberdeenshire, with its decimated fishing fleet and dwindling offshore oil fields, has been a specific target for outside investment. Trump has promised to create 6000 jobs there, but that hardly mollified Scotland's conservation bodies. On Monday, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, one of the most vocal defenders of the dunes, accused the Scottish government of selling a "greener Scotland down the river" for Trump's money - loaded words, as the rallying cry of many Scottish Nationalists is that the Scots sold their country "down...