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...suspended sentence. Bosse cited Parche's psychological problems and his expressions of remorse for the attack, which Parche claims was motivated by a desire to boost the prospects of Seles' rival Steffi Graf. The 19-year-old Seles was appalled by the sentence. ''What kind of message does this send to the world?'' she asked...
...provincial governor. He returned to Kabul in the evening and stayed the night at the U.S. embassy. In an interview aired Sunday morning on CBS's Face the Nation, Obama called the situation in Afghanistan "precarious" and "urgent," and stressed that Washington needs to start planning now to send more troops to the country rather than leaving that to the next President. He also took the opportunity to complain that neighboring Pakistan is not doing enough to go after militant training camps in its remote tribal areas...
...Afghan theatre, ask NATO for more troops and fewer restrictions on those troops, accelerate the training of the national army and police, encourage alternative livelihood crops for opium farmers and help support the fledgling Afghan government. In recent weeks, his Republican opponent has joined the call for sending more troops to Afghanistan, and earlier this week Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that U.S. officials are looking for ways to send more forces to the country. Before he left Washington for Afghanistan, Obama told a pool reporter that "I'm looking forward to seeing what the situation on the ground...
...where politics often trump policy. Obama's candidacy has been embraced by the National Front of Afghanistan, the country's largest opposition party, and the party most likely to field a promising candidate against Karzai in elections slated for September 2009. Spokesman Hussain Sancharaki supports Obama's pledge to send more troops and funding, but mostly he is thrilled by a comment Obama made to CNN a few weeks ago that seemed to question Karzai's leadership, one that may make the senator's first meeting with the Afghan president a bit awkward. "I think the Karzai government...
Australia is an apt venue for World Youth Day, the Pope said, because its Church is "the youngest on any continent." The oldest pontiff to be elected since the 18th century is reputed to own an iPod and sends a daily SMS message to pilgrims, signing off "BXVI." Young people in turn have been invited to send text messages for display on giant "prayer wall" screens around the city. Event coordinator Bishop Anthony Fisher says planners want to make WYD memorable "by using new ways to connect with today's tech-savvy youth...