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MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE, Sri Lanka’s president, shakes out his white outfit and spreads his bare toes with a satisfied air. “We have concentrated on the LTTE [the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam],” he says, “because unless we defeat them, we will have...
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As of Sunday, July 6, 2008, at least 4,114 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Iraqi police and medical officials say a bomb has killed the head of a U.S.-allied Sunni group south of Baghdad.
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The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq’s improved...
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The United Arab Emirates is canceling all the debt Iraq owes to the tiny oil-rich Gulf state.
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Iraqi police and medical officials say a car bomb in northern Baghdad has killed six people and injured 14 others, including three policemen.
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In an interview last March with Bloomberg’s Judy Woodruff, the late conservative scholar William F. Buckley said President Bush’s legacy would be judged purely on...
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The U.S. military says an American soldier in Iraq has died of a noncombat cause.
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Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from...
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Barack Obama said Saturday that he was surprised at how the media has “finely calibrated” his recent words on Iraq, and denied that he intends to anything...
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The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program _ a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium _ reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a...
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The knock on Brian Hart’s door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had...
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A court ordered Canada’s refugee board Friday to take another look at a U.S. Army deserter’s failed bid for asylum in a ruling that could affect scores of...
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Gunmen on a motorcycle assassinated an official of Iraq’s biggest Shiite party Friday in the southern city of Basra, police said.
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Syria has returned a marble artifact to Iraq that was stolen from one of the country’s archaeological sites.
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Barack Obama’s policy for bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq as stated on his Web site:
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Democrat Barack Obama struggled Thursday to explain how his upcoming trip to Iraq might refine, but not basically alter, his promise to quickly remove U.S. combat...
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Democrat Barack Obama says he’s always been open to refining his Iraq policy but blamed Republican John McCain’s campaign for suggesting “we were...
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The State Department on Thursday denied charges by a House committee that it inappropriately encouraged a Texas-based oil company to strike an exploration deal with the...
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A court ordered Canada’s refugee board Friday to take another look at a U.S. Army deserter’s failed bid for asylum in a ruling that could affect scores of...
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Sri Lankan troops captured a key Tamil Tiger rebel base in the island’s north Friday, a day after a wave of battles in the same region killed 32 rebels and two...
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Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba appeared Friday for the first time at the International Criminal Court, where he faces rape and torture charges linked...
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A wave of battles across Sri Lanka’s embattled northern region has killed 32 ethnic Tamil rebels and two government soldiers, the military said Friday.
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Sticking points in the negotiations include the extent of Iraqi control over American operations and the right of American soldiers deployed here to detain suspects.
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Israel has signaled the U.S. and other allies that air operations to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities are not imminent.
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EA’s confirmed that Warhammer Online will ship in Russian, in Russia, early next year.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday he is weighing whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. Bush said it has been a “tough month” in Afghanistan,...
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Former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba was extradited from Belgium on Thursday to stand trial before an international war crimes tribunal charging him with...
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A U.N. appeals court has overturned the war crimes conviction of Naser Oric, a Bosnian Muslim considered a war hero by many in his country for fighting Serbs in the...
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The military says a series of battles between government forces and Tamil Tiger fighters on the front lines of the civil war killed 26 rebels.
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New fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels along Sri Lanka’s northern front lines killed 27 rebels and two soldiers, the military said...
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Sri Lanka’s air force bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel air base and a rebel navy base, while separate ground clashes in the country’s war-torn north left 20...
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A judge says he has imposed two sentences of life in prison on the security chief for former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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Sri Lanka’s army chief said Monday that his soldiers have killed at least 9,000 Tamil Tiger fighters during the past two years of civil war and disabled the rebel...
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Sri Lankan soldiers seized a large swath of Tamil Tiger rebel-held territory while scattered battles elsewhere in the embattled north killed 26 rebels and two soldiers,...
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New fighting in northern Sri Lanka has killed 41 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers, the military said Sunday.
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KHYBER AGENCY, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts with mortar shells Saturday as the government launched an offensive against...
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A Palestinian gestures at a canal pumping sewage into the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City, June 3, 2008. A year-long standoff between Israel and Hamas has left the territory’s sewage system in a state of collapse, flooding its postcard-pretty coastline...
