New York, Sept. 24 : Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis has accused Republican presidential candidate John McCain of promoting “race-baiting” tactics against his Democratic opponent Barack Obama.

Dukakis had an ominous warning for Barack Obama – “Don''t forget Willie Horton.”

In an interview with PolitickerMA. com, Dukakis claimed the McCain camp is using the same tactics that sunk his presidential campaign in 1988.

"The same thing is happening this year," the New York Daily News quoted him, as saying.

He was referring to a recent McCain Campaign ad that claimed Obama got advice from Franklin Raines, a former CEO of the recently bailed out mortgage giant Fannie Mae.

New York, September 24 : New Yorkers may be crazy about meeting U. S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, but not too many of them are in a mood to vote for her.

This came to the fore when a look-alike of Palin named visited New York on Monday.

Kristy Webb, 29, elicited cheers, waves and shocked stares as she visited Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Rockefeller Center and Washington Square Park.

New York, Sept 24: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is scheduled to meet Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick here today on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session.

Dr. Singh reached New York last night on the first leg of his 10-day visit to the United States and France.

New York  - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his nation's right to possess civilian nuclear technology and used the opportunity on Tuesday in the UN General Assembly to denounce nuclear powers that want to cancel that right.

"These are the same powers that produce new generations of lethal nuclear arms and possess stockpiles of nuclear weapons that no international organizations is monitoring," he told the 192-nation assembly.

New York  - Sarah Palin, vice presidential running mate of US presidential candidate John McCain, held her first-ever direct talks with foreign leaders Monday, meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

The talks were part of a series of scheduled meetings for Palin - an effort to boost the one-term Alaska governor's foreign policy credibility - on the sidelines of an annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.

New York  - French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Tuesday for adding new members to the exclusive G-8 and the UN Security Council so they can more effectively deal with problems that continue to defy efforts by Western governments.

Sarkozy said in an address to the UN General Assembly that the UN Security Council, currently with 15 members, and the world's group of eight leading industrialized nations (G-8) should be enlarged to reflect demands of emerging countries.