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In this photo released Saturday, July 19, 2008, by the the U.S. Army, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands with service members at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, Friday, July 18, 2008, during a Congressional Delegation visit
Obama meets troops in Afghan capital
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Barack Obama had breakfast Sunday with U.S. troops in Kabul as part of his visit to Afghanistan. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Johnson said Obama went to an American base in the Afghan capital to dine with soldiers and sailors there. The Democratic presidential candidate is part of a...

photo: AP / U.S. Army, Jarod Perkioniemi

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by Marc Lavine 28 minutes ago SYDNEY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air mass with hundreds of thousands of pilgrims Sunday to end a week of World Youth Day festivities marked by a historic papal apology for priestly sex abuse....
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17 minutes ago BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki did not back the plan of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and his comments to a German magazine on the issue were misunderstood, the...
photo: U.S. Army / Sgt. James Hunter
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THE European Central Bank is trying to convince people in the eurozone that taking a tough stand on inflation will get them through lean economic times, arguing that long-term gains warrant short-term pain. "There is a particular need to speak to...
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It may not be surprising that, as befits any mad dictator, President Mugabe is now the proud owner of a palatial £4.5 million mansion in Harare and a similarly lavish country hideaway, each fitted with the latest electronic security systems,...
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Jul 20, 2008 1:05 PM Colombia's US-backed president entered into a defense pact with the left-of-centre government of Brazil on Saturday, marking a step in regional cooperation aimed at fighting cocaine-funded Marxist rebels. Conservative President...
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Jul 20, 2008 11:31 AM British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Saturday he was taking seriously a claim by militants in Iraq that one of five Britons they are holding hostage has killed himself. The Sunday Times newspaper reported that the...
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