Here are some of the hottest and most current stories on Senator Barack Obama’s :

Obama says he could "refine" Iraq policy
Xinhua - China
WASHINGTON, July 3 (Xinhua) — US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday that he could "refine" his Iraq policy while pledging he won’t change his basic policy position on the issue.

Obama’s Faith-Based Reform
Washington Post - United States
By EJ Dionne Jr. Barack Obama keeps trying to end the wars over culture and religion, and good for him. The 1960s are so 40 years ago. But Obama’s opponents as well as some of his friends, won’t let him do it.

Michelle Obama is being stereotyped
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
After all, what is there not to like about Barack Obama’s wife. She is attractive, well educated, and family oriented. In fact, Michelle Obama seems to possess all of the qualities white conservatives are supposed to admire.

McCain, Obama Take Campaigns Abroad
NPR - USA
Barack Obama on a recent trip to Colombia and Mexico. Obama, meanwhile, is pledging to visit Europe, the Middle East and Iraq before November elections. Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution and Jesus Esquivel, of Mexico’s Proceso political magazine, discuss campaigning abroad.(LISTEN TO BROADCAST)

Obama focuses on turning red states blue
The Associated Press -
FARGO, ND (AP) — It will be a red-state Fourth of July for Barack Obama, who hopes to find votes as well as fireworks in places that blue-state Democrats often bypass in presidential elections. During the long holiday weekend, Obama is making an All-American swing from picnics to parades in reliably Republican corners of the country, states such as North Dakota and Montana.

Target: Barack Obama. Strategy: What Day Is It? 
By The New York Times
Despite a three-month head start, Senator John McCain has struggled to solidify lines of attack against Senator Barack Obama for the general election, Republican operatives say and some of his own advisers acknowledge, running into problems that bedeviled Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s primary campaign against Mr. Obama.