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Delegates hold hands and celebrate after Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama was nominated by acclamation at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 27, 2008. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Obama says will restore U.S. legacy abroad

1 hour, 10 minutes ago

DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama, about to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years, end the war in Iraq and restore America's reputation.

  • Rev. L.M. Pierce looks on as workers install plywood over windows on her house in New Orleans, Louisiana, in preparation for Hurricane Gustav, August 28, 2008. (Lee Celano/Reuters)
    Gustav kills 60 in Caribbean, aims at U.S. 10 minutes ago

    KINGSTON (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Gustav, which has killed at least 60 people in the Caribbean, struck Jamaica with near hurricane-force winds on Thursday and was on a path to reach New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico oil fields as a potentially powerful hurricane.

  • People attend a funeral of soldiers killed in the South Ossetia conflict at a cemetery in Tbilisi August 28, 2008. (David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)
    Russia faces diplomatic isolation on Georgia Thu Aug 28, 1:02 PM ET

    DUSHANBE/PARIS (Reuters) - Russia faced diplomatic isolation over its military action against Georgia on Thursday, with its Asian allies failing to offer support and France saying EU leaders were considering sanctions.

  • Pedestrians walk past a Lehman Brothers sign in New York, June 19, 2008. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
    Lehman looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs: source Thu Aug 28, 5:09 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is looking at cutting some 1,200 jobs in its latest round of cost cutting, a person familiar with the matter said, as weak financial markets spur layoffs across Wall Street.

  • Jalapeno peppers are shown for sale at a Los Angeles market in Los Angeles, California July 22, 2008. (Fred Prouser/Reuters)
    Salmonella outbreak over: CDC Thu Aug 28, 2:35 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella that sickened more than 1,400 people and put 286 in the hospital appears to be over in the United States, federal health officials said on Thursday.

  • Relatives gather around a man injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan's tribal town of Bannu near the border with Afghanistan, in Peshawar August 28, 2008. A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus travelled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said. (Ali Imam/Reuters)
    Top U.S. and Pakistan military officials talk strategy Thu Aug 28, 4:33 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. and Pakistani military officials met this week on a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to discuss the presence of militant safe havens in Pakistan and their role in Afghan violence, officials said on Thursday.

  • Jeffrey Eischeid, former head of the Innovative Strategies group from accounting firm KPMG exits federal court in New York, September 6, 2005. (Chip East/Reuters)
    Court upholds dismissal of charges in KPMG case Thu Aug 28, 2:41 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has upheld the dismissal of criminal charges against 13 former executives at KPMG, saying prosecutors violated the defendants' rights by pressuring the accounting firm not to pay their legal bills.

  • Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the court room of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the start of his initial appearance in The Hague July 31, 2008. Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters)
    Karadzic due for plea hearing at Hague tribunal 2 hours, 26 minutes ago

    THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is being asked for a second time on Friday to enter a plea at a U.N. tribunal for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

  • Vice President Dick Cheney attends a meeting with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad March 17, 2008. Cheney in his first visit to Tbilisi next week will assure Georgia that the United States stands firmly with its ally which is reeling from a decisive military defeat at Russian hands. (Mohammed Jalil/Pool/Reuters)
    U.S. forces arrest senior Iraqi official Thu Aug 28, 2:29 PM ET

    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces arrested the deputy head of a committee that purged Iraq's government of members of Saddam Hussein's party, an ally said, but the U.S. military said he was a wanted militia leader behind a deadly Baghdad bombing.

  • One of the nine leaders of an anti-government campaign Sondhi Limthongkul walks with his guard inside the Government House during a protest in Bangkok August 28, 2008. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
    Thai rail starts partial strike in anti-government rally Thu Aug 28, 1:10 PM ET

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai rail workers began a partial strike on Thursday, joining a protest by thousands of people barricaded inside the prime minister's official compound whose leaders vowed to stay until his government fell.

  • A Topol-M missile launcher drives in the Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow May 9, 2008. (Grigory Dukor/Reuters)
    Russia long-range missile test a success Thu Aug 28, 8:53 AM ET

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia successfully tested a long-range Topol missile designed to avoid detection by anti-missile defence systems from its Plesetsk launch site, a Russian military spokesman said on Thursday.

  • Afghan national army soldiers patrol on a street in Kabul August 18, 2008. (Omar Sobhani/Reuters)
    More than 100 Taliban killed in Afghanistan Thu Aug 28, 10:10 AM ET

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 100 Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand during three days of fighting, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

  • The U.S. economy expanded at a stronger-than-first-reported 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, as consumer spending and net exports were more robust than initially estimated and inventories fell less sharply, a government report showed on Thursday. (Graphics/Reuters)
    Economy shows vigor, but seen flagging Thu Aug 28, 12:53 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strong exports and consumer spending supported by government stimulus checks pushed the U.S. economy ahead at a solid 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, much stronger than first thought, but growth is expected to flag as those factors fade.

  • A young child plays in a stagnant pool of water in Mozambique in a file photo. Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care. (File/Reuters)
    WHO study backs universal health care Thu Aug 28, 12:16 PM ET

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Major inequalities in health and life expectancy persist worldwide, according to an independent World Health Organization commission which on Thursday called for all countries to offer universal health care.

  • Hurricane Gustav is seen in this satellite image dated August 26, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)
    Three years after Katrina, Gulf ports at risk Thu Aug 28, 9:25 AM ET

    PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - The drive south from New Orleans toward the Gulf of Mexico is a study in coastal vulnerability.