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Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, today formally requested that CIA chief Leon Panetta and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Bair publicly release CIA notes on torture briefings to members of Congress. Read more
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
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WASHINGTON — In recent years, a newfound — and welcome — autonomy in Latin America has been too often accompanied by the belief that the United States has little to offer the region anymore. As Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, an Argentine professor of foreign relations, noted in a newspaper column titled “Goodbye Washington,” “there is an [...]
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The current discussion about drawing down American troops in Iraq — whether “immediately,” “rapidly” or “as soon as possible” — would be amusing were it not so dangerously divorced from reality. There could be no greater mistake than drawing down the U.S. force now, at a moment when there is real hope for success if [...]
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It is the global economy this time, stupid. Read more
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PENARTH, Wales — Derek Eveleigh walked carefully, searching for buried treasure. Read more
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Pakistan has told the Obama administration that it is sending an additional six army brigades to join a major government offensive against Taliban forces in the northwestern part of the country, and it has pledged to hold territory where extremist forces are dislodged, Pakistani and U.S. officials said yesterday. Read more
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MEXICO CITY — The face of the flu outbreak in Mexico is all bushy eyebrows and droopy mustache, and it speaks in tones deeply somber but not quite funereal. The face belongs to a previously obscure gastroenterologist named José Ángel Córdova, the health secretary, who is now the second most powerful man in Mexico. Read [...]
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MARDAN, Pakistan, May 10 — As they waited in rows of empty white tents, refugees from fighting in the Swat Valley said Sunday that they had been repeating a Koranic verse from the sayings of the prophet Muhammad. Read more
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COLOMBO (Reuters) — The United Nations said a weekend attack in Sri Lanka that killed hundreds was the bloodbath it had feared, while the Tamil Tigers and government traded blame ahead of U.N. Security Council talks over the war. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will aim on Monday to build support for a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system by highlighting a drive for greater efficiency he predicts could save trillions of dollars. Read more
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Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Israel on the second and most sensitive leg of his Middle East tour. Read more
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The downward trend in the financial crisis is easing and national economic stimulus packages are starting to work, billionaire investor George Soros was quoted as saying by a German newspaper on Monday. Read more
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Play Video AP – 3rd U.S. Swine flu death reported Slideshow:Swine Flu Play Video Video:Is The Swine Flu Threat Dimming? CBS4 Denver Play Video Video:Is the swine flu threat overblown? AP AP – A family listens to a mariachi band play on Mother’s Day in Garibaldi Plaza in Mexico City, Sunday, May … By KENT KILPATRICK and JUAN CARLOS [...]
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It is a dilemma with which many men are familiar: the football or the family? But when French President Nicolas Sarkozy let it be known he was to miss the French Cup final for an evening with Carla Bruni, his wife, it took on a new dimension. Read more
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Leaked documents revealed how David Cameron’s millionaire frontbench maintained lavish lifestyles at taxpayers’ expense. Read more
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Journalists released by Fiji police New 1:46PM Monday May 11, 2009 Fiji coups Dev Nadkarni: Forum’s hard line brings ripple effect to Pacific nations Editorial: Forum’s stand against Suva fully justified Two Fiji journalists who had been held by police for two nights have been released. The journalists, from [...]
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Relatives of the Srebrenica massacre victims attend the funeral of their family members at the Srebrenica Memorial site during the 10th anniversary of the massacre on July 11, 2005, in Srebrenica, Bosnia Herzegovina. Read more