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About IHT Advertise Try IHT Digital access today - available for your smartphone, PC and tablet. Live video From Charlotte Jeff Zeleny talks to voters in Ohio, a crucial swing state. The Caucus In Last Speech of Conventions, Obama Will Look to Future By ADAM NAGOURNEY 46 minutes ago President Obama will take the stage Thursday night competing against a formidable array of convention speakers: Mitt Romney, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton — and himself. Interactive Feature: ‘I Want,’ He Said: Obama's Speeches LIVE COVERAGE Dispatches From the Convention By THE NEW YORK TIMES Updates and analysis from The Times’s political reporters and editors. More Coverage Obama Surrogates Tout Foreign Policy Successes Damon Winter/The New York Times Obama Girls’ Role: To Be Spoken Of, Not to Speak By JODI KANTOR CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Malia and Sasha Obama have barely been seen in this campaign. But they will appear at the convention on Thursday. 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Thursday, September 6, 2012 - Last Update: 7:13 PM ET (23:13 GMT)
Jeff Zeleny talks to voters in Ohio, a crucial swing state.
President Obama will take the stage Thursday night competing against a formidable array of convention speakers: Mitt Romney, Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton — and himself.
Updates and analysis from The Times’s political reporters and editors.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Malia and Sasha Obama have barely been seen in this campaign. But they will appear at the convention on Thursday.
FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank said on Thursday it had agreed to launch a new and potentially unlimited bond-buying program to lower the borrowing costs of struggling countries.
PARIS — A senior French diplomat said the government was providing funds to five revolutionary councils in rebel-held parts of Syria to help them restore water supplies, sanitation, health services and bakeries.
VLADIV- OSTOK, Russia — President Vladimir V. Putin is hoping to strengthen ties with the Pacific Rim and pursuing ambitious development in Russia itself.
BANGKOK — Vietnam is treating some people exposed to dioxin during the Vietnam War with a program developed by L. Ron Hubbard.
PARIS — The discovery of the girl around midnight on Wednesday provided a glimmer of relief after a grisly and murky shooting deaths of two parents and a grandmother in the Alps.
MONTREAL — The return to power of the separatist Parti Québécois continued to be overshadowed on Wednesday by a shooting at a victory party in Montreal that killed one man and critically injured another.
DUBAI — A new government program aims to encourage migrant workers in the Gulf to put aside savings for their inevitable return instead of sending all their earnings home, where it is often misspent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The worst drought in decades is expected to continue choking areas of the Plains and Rockies that did not get soaked by Hurricane Isaac.
“Unfortunately one more nail was driven into Euro’s coffin,” writes Ira Waxmann in Germany.
“Extinction, and for what? Knicknacks.” writes Carey.
Jay-Z has a piece of the Nets, a glamorous wife and a baby who melts his heart.
The call for a narrowly tailored education for people with limited economic prospects is not new.
China’s update to a cherished book of parables has drawn ridicule.
To an Italian it is unfathomable that a job’s permanency can become void. Work contracts are indeterminato, which means they have no end.
Juan Martín Hernández has joined the lineup in time for a clash with New Zealand.
After Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s trip failed to get deals on two big items, Beijing and Washington have a long way to go to translate rhetoric into action.
A satire on hard-partying women comes at you like machine-gun fire.
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