After Obama’s health care win, what next?

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President Barack Obama has succeeded in pushing through health care reform in the United States. But what does that domestic victory mean for his administration’s foreign policy challenges, particularly in Iran, Afghanistan and China? The World’s Matthew Bell has that story. Download MP3 (Photo: Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images)

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Global Political Cartoons: Sep 19-25, 2009

The Iranian president becomes the Joe Wilson of the UN General Assembly meeting. The real ‘Mad Men’? They’re in the Middle East. And nuclear weapons — the actual weapons — find the idea of disarming, well, disarming.

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Global Political Cartoons: August 8-14, 2009

Each week, The World brings you the best in political cartooning from across the globe. In this week’s cartoon slideshow, artists take aim at Afghanistan’s upcoming elections, the continued detention of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, and those noisy town hall meetings about health care reform in the United States.

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