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White House: July 2011 Afghanistan Withdrawal 'Locked In'

CBS News | December 2, 2009

Read More: 2011, Afghanistan, Drawdown, Lindsey Graham, Obama, President Obama, Robert Gates, Senate Armed Services, White House, Withdrawel

After the briefing, Gibbs went to the president for clarification. Gibbs then called me to his office to relate what the president said. The president...

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Cooperative Israeli-Palestinian Project Plants Strawberry Fields (VIDEO)

| December 2, 2009

Read More: Israel, Israel Palestine Strawberry Field, Israeli Farming, Israeli-Palestinian Cooperation, Lt. Gal Levant, Oren Blonder, Palestine, Peres Center For Peace, Qalqilyah, Strawberry Field

Qalqilyah is an unlikely site for Israeli-Palestinian cooperation -- a Palestinian town in the West Bank, it's home to the wall Israel built to keep...

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Afghan Town McChrystal Cited As Big Success Story Is Still Struggling

Stars and Stripes | Geoff Ziezulewicz | December 2, 2009

Read More: Afghanistan, Baraki Barak, Stanley McChrystal

Within hours of President Barack Obama's announcement of a new surge of 30,000 troops into Afghanistan, the man charged with winning the war stood before...

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Trio Of Anti-Surge Lawmakers Write Letter Of Opposition To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | December 2, 2009

Read More: Afghan Opposition, Anti-Surge, Jim McGovern, Obama Afghanistan, Obama Surge, Russ Feingold, Walter Jones

Three lawmakers, including a now perennial anti-war Republican, penned a letter to the White House on Wednesday evening, formally opposing the president's troop increase in...

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New ISAF, NATO Website To Share Afghanistan War Updates On Blogs, Twitter

| December 2, 2009

Read More: Afghanistan War Website, International Security Assistance Force, Isaf, ISAF Site, ISAF Website, Nato, NATO Website, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NATO announced a new website complete with links to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. In an eerie flashback to the Vietnam War when the public watched...

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2,600 Bodies Found In Kashmir Graves

AP | AIJAZ HUSSAIN | December 2, 2009

Read More: Ali Mohammed Sagar, India Kashmir, International People's Tribunal, Kashmir, Kashmir Conflict, Kashmiri, Pakistan, Pakistan Kashmir

SRINAGAR, India — Nearly 2,600 bodies have been discovered in single unmarked and mass graves throughout mountainous Indian Kashmir, human rights activists said Wednesday, alleging...

Iraqi Women Forced Into Sex Slavery

Jerusalem Post | MEDIA LINE NEWS AGENCY | December 2, 2009

Read More: Baghdad Women's Organization, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, Iraq Sex Slavery, Iraq Women

Rising numbers of Iraqi women are being sold into sexual slavery every year because of the waning economy and dire security situation....

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Argentine Lawmakers Throw Chairs, Punches During Meeting (VIDEO)

| December 2, 2009

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(AP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine lawmakers pushed, punched and threw chairs at each other during a raucous session to choose the president of a...

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Digital Cloud To Screen Data, Pictures In London Sky (PHOTOS)

| December 2, 2009

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Architects and engineers, working in collaboration with Google and MIT's Senseable City Laboratory, have unveiled plans to build a massive "digital cloud" over London for...

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Australia's Carbon-Trading Legislation Fails

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | December 2, 2009

Read More: Australia, Carbon Trading, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Global Warming, Green Energy, Green News

SYDNEY — Australia's Senate on Wednesday defeated the government's plan to implement a carbon pollution trading system to fight global warming, dashing hopes of setting...

Imelda Marcos Opens Run For Philippine Congress

nytimes.com | CARLOS H. CONDE | December 2, 2009

Read More: Ferdinand Marcos, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Imelda Marcos, Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

MANILA -- Imelda Marcos, the flamboyant widow of the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, filed last-minute papers on Tuesday declaring her candidacy for a seat in...

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Amanda Knox May Face Further Legal Battles Even If Found Innocent

Amanda Knox | December 2, 2009

Read More: Amanda Knox, Amanda Knox Trial, Italy, Meredith Kercher, Perugia, Raffaele Sollecito, Renato Locchi

ROME, Italy -- The two-year-long murder trial of American exchange student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito has transformed the once-sleepy Umbrian university...

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Amir Ardebili: International Sting Operation Captures Iranian Arms Dealer, Brought To US (VIDEO)

| December 2, 2009

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U.S. authorities revealed today that an international sting operation resulted in the apprehension of Amir Ardebili, an Iranian arms dealer who was smuggling American weapons...

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Gates: Afghanistan Failure Would Have 'Severe Consequences'

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | December 2, 2009

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WASHINGTON — A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the president's chief military...