Pakistan: 8 Militants Killed In Reported US Strike
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in...
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Mothers Become Face Of U.S. Hunger Problem On CNN
Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
Earlier this week, the federal government released a new report highlighting the new high of 49 million Americans who went hungry last year. CNN dec...
Hamid Karzai Sworn In For Second 5-Year Term As Afghan President
AP | KATHY GANNON and ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.20.2009 | World
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KABUL — For his critics, President Hamid Karzai's inaugural speech Thursday struck all the right notes – sober pledges to get tough on cor...
Israel Angers U.S. With Plan To Build New Homes In The West Bank
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 11.18.2009 | World
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WASHINGTON — The White House rebuked Israel with heavy criticism Tuesday after the Jerusalem city government moved toward the construction of 90...
Countries Prepping For "Cyber Cold War," According To McAfee Report
cnn.com | Elinor Mills | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology
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Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation ...
How Cuban American Hard-Liners Influence U.S. Policy With Campaign Donations: Report
Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
While U.S. policy toward Cuba has opened up since President Barack Obama took office, a new report from Public Campaign, an organization dedicated to ...
Palestinians To Appeal To UN For State, As Peace Talks Stall
AP | MARK LAVIE | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
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JERUSALEM — A Palestinian drive to ask the U.N. Security Council to endorse a state unilaterally, put forward by a top negotiator Sunday, appear...
Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi
AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 11.15.2009 | World
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SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face i...
Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
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Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
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While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
Cocaethylene Studied: Cocaine, Alcohol Mix To Create Toxic 3rd Chemical
The Observer | Jamie Doward | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living
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Drug addiction clinics say they are becoming increasingly concerned by the health risks associated with the chemical -- the only known example of the ...
Shimon Peres Calls On Mahmoud Abbas Not To Quit
AP | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's president on Saturday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the...
Think Tank's Advice To Europe: Stop 'Fetishizing' American Relationship
Spiegel Online | Gregor Peter Schmitz | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
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The council released a study on Monday called "Toward a Post-American Europe," based on wide-ranging interviews and research conducted in the 27 EU me...
Abdullah Withdraws From Afghan Election
BBC NEWS | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
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President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....
Afghan Election Runoff Not Affected By Abdullah Abdullah's Call For Boycott: Hillary Clinton
AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home
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JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanist...
Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
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This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iran Rejects Uranium Transfer Deal SI Analysis: In a show of shrewd and bizarre diplomacy, Iran says tha...
Coming to the US, the World's First Official History of an Intelligence Service; MI5
Rani Singh | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books
It is the first time that any intelligence service, anywhere in the world, has allowed an historian to read through its files and record his or her findings.
J Street Conference To Open Amid Controversy
Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
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J Street, an advocacy and lobbying firm created 18 months ago, is holding its first annual conference beginning Sunday, with participation from about ...
Karzai Rules Out Afghan Power Share Before Afghan Election Runoff
Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.25.2009 | World
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President Hamid Karzai's team shifted aggressively into campaign mode Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a power-sharing deal with challenger A...
Pakistan Takes Taliban Chief's Hometown Of Kotkai
AP | ASIF SHAHZAD and ASHRAF KHAN | Posted 10.25.2009 | World
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers captured the hometown of the country's Taliban chief Saturday, a strategic and symbolic initial prize as the army...
Roman Polanski Arrest Sparked By Tip From Swiss, According To New Documents
AP | THOMAS WATKINS and BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
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LOS ANGELES — The arrest of Roman Polanski in his decades-old child sex case was set in motion last month by Swiss authorities, who informed fed...
Afghanistan: An Election Without Results
Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 10.19.2009 | World
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Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.
Iran Blames US, Britain For Suicide Bombing
The Guardian | Robert Tait | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards today vowed to take revenge after blaming Britain and the US for a suicide bombing that killed six of its commanders and 3...
Data: Afghan War Costs US $3.6 Billion Per Month
The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
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The United States spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service. ...
Let France, Israel, the Saudis Deter Iran
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
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By counting on the Americans to protect them against a nuclear Iran, the French, the Saudis and the Israelis are avoiding assuming the responsibility for their own security.
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