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• Musharraf building comfy retirement home
And many believe Musharraf stepped down only after Zardari promised to leave him in peace — partly to please foreign backers such as the United States and Saudi Arabia.
• Long to-do list
The portrait he painted of McCain was that of a man who had served his country nobly but who is out of touch with struggling families and is joined at the hip with President Bush on foreign and domestic policy.
• VP pick Palin makes appeal to women voters
She is three years Obama's junior, as well, and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama's relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters.
• Palin is McCain's boldest gamble
And Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton warned that McCain had "put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.
• Georgia to sever diplomatic ties with Russia
Georgian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Nato Chikovani said Georgia will withdraw its staff on Saturday. Russian news agencies have cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko as criticizing the move, saying it will not benefit bilateral ...