Obama raises at least $20 million in third quarter

Hello on this Tuesday, the second day of October 2007. I'm Kristin Volk with a UPI headline update. Britain's Prime Minister says a thousand British troops have to leave Iraq by the end of the year. Gordon Brown made the announcement today shortly after arriving in Baghdad for talks with Iraqi officials. Brown said the southern Basra region where British troops are deployed would be in full Iraqi control in two months. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki responded, saying his troops are ready to assume command in the country's south. Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama is reporting a strong third quarter in his presidential campaign. Campaign officials say he raised at least 20 million dollars, which they say comes from more than 93 thousand donors during the quarter. All of about a million dollars of those contributions can be used in the primary fight, where the Illinois senator is among the front-running candidates. His Democratic presidential rival, Senator Hillary Clinton is expected to report between $17 and $20 million dollars in third-quarter contributions. The leaders of North and South Korea greeted one another in Pyongyang today at the start of a historic summit. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and North Korean leader King Jong Il reportedly shook hands and said, "I'm glad to meet you." The summit is the second meeting between leaders of the two countries since the peninsula's division after World War II. Agenda items for the two include discussion of the end to the North's nuclear program, turning a decades-old cease-fire into a peace treaty and eventual reunification. Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that he may become prime minister next year. Putin made the announcement yesterday, saying he would lead the ticket of Russia's dominant party in parliamentary elections. He's barred by the Russian Constitution from seeking another term, but is popular among Russia's citizens and has a centralized lock on his government.

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