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Barack Obama: A visionary’s choice for Nobel Peace Prize

And then there's the victor, Barack Obama, a Harvard law school graduate, community organizer, civil rights lawyer, law professor, junior senator and president of the most "powerful" country in the world. A stunning resume, but where are the accomplishments? The peace work, the advocacy, the results?
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North Korea fires more missiles

North Korea has fired more missiles just hours after the UN unanimously condemned yesterday's underground nuclear test and the testing of three short-range missiles, the BBC reports.
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Poking the Bear: Why North Korea did it and what it means for Asia-Pacific

North Korea, one of the pillars of Bush’s “axis of evil”, conducted an underground test of a nuclear bomb last night about 50 miles northwest of the northern city of Kilju. According to predictions by Russian officials, the bomb generated a blast of between 10 and 20 kilotons, which places it in the range of “Little Boy” and “Fat Man”; the two atomic bombs that ravaged the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.