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Media says Obama evolved, not flip-flopped, on major issues through the years
President Barack Obama has evolved — again.
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Protesters begin biggest anti-NATO rally in Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters, some dressed as clowns and others bearing anti-war signs, gathered on Sunday in a lakefront park in the biggest test yet for Chicago police trying to keep the peace as world leaders began meeting for a two-day NATO summit. Previous protests in the run-up to the summit Sunday and [...]
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Lawyers for fugitive Iraq VP withdraw from case
Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi’s defence team walked out of his trial Sunday after a judge refused to accept their evidence, as witnesses testified he gave them money to kill Iraqi soldiers and policemen.
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Ex-TV Anchor: Obama ‘Condescending to Women’
President Obama’s recent outreach to women voters has won him strong support in polls, but former CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown says in an op-ed column published Sunday that the effort “so far has seemed maddeningly off point.”
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Iran MPs urge respect of ‘rights’ in nuclear talks
A majority of Iranian lawmakers on Sunday urged world powers to respect Iran’s “rights” in crucial talks next week in Baghdad over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.
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Iraqi Kurdistan to push ahead with oil export plan
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region said on Sunday it expects to start exporting its crude oil along a new pipeline to the Turkish border by August 2013, defying Baghdad in a long-running dispute over who controls the country’s oil sales. The Kurdistan region, which has its own government and armed forces, has [...]
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Lawyers for fugitive Iraqi VP quit case in protest
Lawyers for Iraq’s fugitive Sunni vice president charged with running death squads that targeted Shiite officials and pilgrims quit the case on Sunday in protest after judges would not let them present evidence at the trial.
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NATO’s Paper Mache Agenda for Afghanistan
The Afghanistan-related measures NATO members are expected to adopt in Chicago are a mix of concrete international agreements and paper promises that European capitals may or may not uphold.
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NATO summit: Why US, allies don’t just call it quits in Afghanistan
Why can’t the United States just make a clean break in Afghanistan, the way it did in Iraq?
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U.S. tells G8 Syria’s Assad must go, cites Yemen as model
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday. Ben Rhodes, an Obama deputy national security adviser, said the recent focus [...]
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