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From The Financial Times

Common purpose
Disarmament: The Obama-Medvedev summit will open the way to renewed talks on nuclear arms control that, thought limited in scope, could lead to wider co-operation
Palin's demise and the Republican fall
Sarah Palin's potential candidacy was only explicable in a party that is in total disarray. It is hard to see how a 2012 candidate can win support both inside and outside the Republican party
US urges N Korea not to aggravate tensions
The United States urged North Korea not to 'aggravate tensions' but did not confirm whether Pyongyang had launched a series of missiles
Palin resigns as Alaska governor
Sarah Palin abruptly resigned as governor of Alaska, saying she did not want to waste her time on 'political blood sport' and would hand power to her deputy later this month.
Taliban step up attacks in Helmand valley
Taliban insurgents stepped up attacks against US Marines in southern Afghanistan's Helmand River valley, forcing troops in some areas to spend the day fighting instead of carrying out plans to meet with residents and local leaders
Unfreezing cold war attitudes
Both Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin say they want to "press the reset button" in US-Russian relations but if this is truly to happen it will take more than an agreement to cut arms
A test of legal logic for US civil rights
Enforcement is now more pragmatic, less principled, and more corrosive to social ideas of fairness, writes Christopher Caldwell
The tarnished state
Underlining the calamity of the California's finances by issuing IOUs rather than cobbling together another short-term fix might turn out to be a good move, if it can be used to force genuine reform
Man in the News: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Mission to terminate debt: Californians are finding that their governor is as tough as he looks
Heat rises as Russia awaits Obama
Russia eyes opportunities created by the economic context and what it calls a crisis in US global leadership to show that Washington needs Moscow
SEC blamed for failing to spot Madoff fraud
Harvey Pitt, former US SEC head, says there are not enough economists at the regulator and that staff 'lack the sophistication and skillset' necessary to do their jobs effectively
US and Russia square up over missile shield
The US and Russia are digging in for a fight over plans for missile defence bases in eastern Europe before next week's summit between Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev
Familiar tensions surface after early thaw
Missile interceptors and former Soviet states' Nato hopes will cast a shadow over talks, write Edward Luce and Alexandra Ulme
Temps suffer as US job cuts spread
Buried deep in Thursday's data on the US labour market was one particularly deflating statistic. Temporary workers have suffered another month of heavy job cuts, after a brief hiatus in May
Jobs data dash recovery hopes
The US economy shed another 467,000 jobs last month, signalling aggressive government stimulus measures are failing to unshackle the labour force from the grips of the recession, official figures showed