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Pentagon officials have leaked word that the Office of Management and Budget has ordered a 10 percent cut in defense spending for the coming fiscal year, giving Defense Secretary Robert Gates a substantially smaller budget than he requested. Here are five reasons President Obama should side with Gates over the green-eyeshade boys. Read more
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BEIJING, Feb. 2 — A Chinese government official has outlined new principles aimed at stemming the growing unrest triggered by an economic downturn that has left 26 million migrant workers looking for jobs. Read more
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BEIJING, Feb. 3 — Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday night aired the full news footage of a protester throwing a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech in England, an unusual step given the state-controlled media’s routine censorship of incidents embarrassing to China. Read more
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NAIROBI — The departure of the last Ethiopian tanks from Somalia’s capital is ushering in a new phase of conflict in a nation known for clan warfare: a battle for power among militias flying Islamist banners. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 3 — Iraqi law enforcement officials in Anbar province braced Tuesday for a possible outbreak of violence as politicians cried foul over what they called rampant fraud during Saturday’s provincial election. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 2 — Iraq appears headed toward a reapportionment of power that favors the emergence of a strong central government, with supporters of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki showing strong returns in Saturday’s elections, according to early tallies seen by election and party officials. Read more
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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said it had launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time on Tuesday, a move likely to worry Israel and Western powers further about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Read more
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DETROIT (Reuters) – U.S. auto sales for January are expected to drop to a 27-year low, extending a 15-month downturn and adding weight to the view that the hard-hit sector will remain a drag on the economy in the current quarter. Read more
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Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit, state media report. Read more
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LONDON – European markets fell Tuesday as investors continued to worry about the sputtering global economy despite governments’ efforts to boost growth with increased spending. By noon in mainland Europe, Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 0.57 percent at 4,054.54, Germany’s DAX dived 0.75 percent to 4,239.16, and France’s CAC 40 dipped 0.73 percent to 2,908.55. [...]
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Play Video AP  – Gunmen kidnap American UN official in Pakistan Slideshow: Pakistan Play Video Afghanistan Video: Australian soldiers wounded Australia 7 News Play Video Afghanistan Video: Waste, fraud in Iraq repeated in Afghanistan 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads AP – In this Dec. 18, 2008 file photo, John Solecki, the head of the U.N. refugee office in [...]
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The snow which paralysed much of England yesterday looks set to keep the country in its icy fist for the rest of the week. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Feb. 2) – Waste and corruption that marred Iraq’s reconstruction will be repeated in Afghanistan unless the U.S. transforms the unwieldy bureaucracy managing tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure projects, government watchdogs warned Monday. Read more
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The heaviest snowfall in 18 years brought the nation to a standstill, crippling businesses, transport networks, hospitals and schools – and further hammering the recession-hit economy. Read more
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Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 48, of the Melbourne suburb of Dallas, who talked about attacking several Melbourne landmarks, must serve a minimum of 12 years. Read more
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Answer: In Persian, the suffix “stan” means “place of.” In Russian — remembering that Kazakhstan borders Russia, and five ‘stans used to be part of the Soviet Union — the word “stan” means “settlement.” So we have seven countries in Central Asia that share the “stan” suffix: Afghanistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan The [...]
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Last time, it was George W. Bush ducking the sneaker of an Iraqi journalist. Today, it was Chinese premier Wen Jiabao who was the target of some sole-searching. The shoe, pictured, was tossed at Wen as he gave a speech on the economy to Cambridge University students. More: “‘Following an incident in the auditorium [...]
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11:22pm UK, Monday February 02, 2009 President Barack Obama’s $819bn package to help revive the US economy is being debated by the Senate – as he tries to build Republican support for the bill. [...]
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Soul singer Eryka Badu has given birth to her third child, her first with hip-hop boyfriend Jay Electronica. Read more
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Nabucco is a project, uniting interests of a number of European states and being an alternative to the Russian monopoly on gas supplies, said Alexander Rusetski, head of the South Caucasus Regional Security Institute. He noted that it is a fight for the Central Asian reserves and the intention to provide the European economy with [...]