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WAPO: After a series of early and relatively easy victories on Capitol Hill, the White House appears certain to face a more difficult road when Congress returns to work next week. Not content to task lawmakers with passing an ambitious agenda of record new spending, sweeping health-care reform and other major initiatives, President Obama yesterday nudged the ...
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' ousted president said he will return to his country in two days and reclaim control from coup leaders, urging soldiers to go back to their baracks and stop cracking down on thousands of his supporters who have protested his overthrow. The military coup has provoked the condemnation of world leaders from ...
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Agencie France Presse: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki opened a meeting expected to unveil which foreign companies have won contracts to develop the conflict-torn nation's key oil and gas fields. Iraq is to announced who has won contracts to develop key oil and gas fields, nearly four decades after Saddam Hussein's party nationalised the country's energy sector. "These ...
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Jerusalem Post: MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) lashed out Monday against the US demand for a settlement freeze, labeling it "extortion" and warning it could set back Israeli readiness for peace. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Schneller assailed Obama administration officials as holding beliefs shaped by "far-Left opinions outside of the Israeli consensus." Schneller Schneller, who has been ...
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MIR ALI, Pakistan - Taliban militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan say they have pulled out of a peace deal with the government, raising the prospect of wider unrest as the Pakistani army extends its efforts to eliminate insurgents. The militants in North Waziristan blamed continuing U.S. missile strikes and army offensives against the Taliban ...
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Related: North Korea To Fire Missile At Hawaii On 4th Of July VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force has successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from the California coast to an area in the Pacific Ocean some 4,200 miles away. Lt. Raymond Geoffroy says the ICBM was launched from Vandenberg ...
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Agencie France Presse: Germany's top court will hand down a ruling whether the European Union's proposed Lisbon Treaty breaches the country's constitution and could potentially halt the landmark reform in its tracks. The Federal Constitutional Court hands down its judgement at 10 am (0800 GMT) and a ruling against the Treaty -- designed to streamline decision-making in ...
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Jerusalem Post: A Jew for Jesus who demanded kashrut supervision from the Chief Rabbinate won a Supreme Court decision on Monday likely to spark another confrontation between the nation's highest legal arbiter and the Orthodox rabbinical establishment. n its verdict, based on a precedent that found belly-dancing to be unrelated to kosher food, the court ruled that ...
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces assume formal control of Baghdad and other cities on Tuesday after American troops hand over security in urban areas in a defining step toward ending the U.S. combat role in the country. Fireworks, not bombings, colored the Baghdad skyline late Monday, and thousands attended a party in a park where singers ...
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A Yemenia Air plane carrying 153 people from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros has crashed in the Indian Ocean, a Yemen airport official said Tuesday. "The plane has crashed and we still don't know exactly where. We think it's in the area of Mitsamiouli," Comoros Vice-President Idi Nadhoim told ...
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Gee, now why does Obama think that the Honduran military dispatching a shadily-elected, oppressive Leftist government sets a "terrible precedent". Like the situation in Iran, it cuts too close to home, it is his worst personal nightmare. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya ...
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Times Online: Gordon Brown stepped up the pressure on Iran to free the British Embassy employees seized in Tehran by declaring their arrests “unacceptable, unjustified and without foundation†and hinting at concerted international action. One option being considered by the European Union’s member states is for all 27 to withdraw their ambassadors from Tehran temporarily as a ...
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Fox News: A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report ...
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BASEL (Reuters) - Financial products should be treated like medicines and sold to consumers only when they are certified safe to prevent a repeat of last year's financial meltdown, the world's central bankers said on Monday. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which acts as a forum for central banks, said government efforts to revive the ...
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POLITICO: Mitt Romney says publicly he’s not considering another presidential campaign, most recently on Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.†But many of his loyalists expect one and remain at the ready for 2012. When dozens of former Romney aides and advisers convened on the terrace of Charlie Spies’ fashionable Penn Quarter loft earlier ...
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A protege of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro gets ousted from office for trying to lift Presidential Term Limit restrictions, and Obama does everything but congratulate the people who stood up for freedom and true Democracy. Why? Is it because Zelaya is an ally of some of the biggest Socialists/Communists in the known world, just ...
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FOX News: NEW YORK — Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment. Scattered applause and whoops broke out in the crowded Manhattan courtroom after ...
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