London, July 22: The New York Times has rejected an opinion piece on Iraq by Republican presidential candidate John McCain, less than a week after publishing a similar article by his Democratic rival Barack Obama.

David Shipley, the op-ed page editor of America’s most prestigious paper asked McCain to rewrite his piece, a move likely to revive allegations of bias in the media towards Obama, The Telegraph reported.

Berlin - Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the
US presidency, will have a one-hour, get-to-know-you chat this week in
Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of her spokesmen said
Monday.

Both will appear for a photo call but will not answer questions
from the media after the Thursday meeting, deputy government spokesman
Thomas Steg told reporters.

Steg said she would brief him on closer US-German business ties and hoped to have a "very frank, comprehensive" talk.

"Ultimately it's about them getting to know one another," he said.

Baghdad - US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived Monday in Baghdad on the second leg of a foreign tour. 

Washington, July 21: Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has reportedly criticised his Democratic rival Barack Obama over his yesterday’s remark about unilateral action in Pakistani territory to target terrorists. McCain said Obama’s approach created difficulties in the way of Pakistan’s support in the US-led war on terror.

Obama was in Afghanistan yesterday and met US troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. He had said that under him the US would be prepared to hunt high value terrorists in Pakistan if it had them in sight and if Pakistan did not act.

Kabul, July 19 : U. S.

Washington - Democrats took another healing step on Thursday when former president Bill Clinton said he planned to campaign for Barack Obama whenever, wherever he was needed, according to broadcas