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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Early 'Maybe' From Obama Jolts '08 Field — Senator Barack Obama's announcement that he might run for president is altering the early dynamics of the 2008 Democratic nominating contest. The move has created complications for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as she steps up her own preparations …
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton's Talks With Democrats May Signal Bid for President — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun a calculated series of meetings with top New York Democratic officials to signal that she is likely to run for the presidency in 2008 and to ask for their support if she does …
Ian James / Associated Press:
Chavez wins re-election by wide margin — CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez won re-election by a wide margin Sunday, giving the firebrand leftist six more years to redistribute Venezuela's vast oil wealth to the poor and press his campaign to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and beyond.
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Wall Street Journal:
Why Military Calls to Raise Iraq Effort Grow — Rumsfeld Exit Revives Push to Boost Troops, — Money in One Last Effort to Stabilize Baghdad — WASHINGTON — As demands mount to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq, a growing number of senior military officials are arguing that the only way to salvage …
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Solomon Moore / Los Angeles Times:
'Fear took over' in Baghdad raid — U.S. advisors lament Iraqi troops' conduct. America's exit strategy hangs in the balance. — BURSTS of AK-47 fire hissed past them from several directions at once, showering the U.S. and Iraqi soldiers with pulverized cement and slapping spider-web fractures …
CNN:
Nine U.S. troops killed in Iraq … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Nine U.S. troops died in Iraq during the weekend, including five killed by roadside bombs, the U.S. military reported Sunday. — Two soldiers were killed and two wounded Sunday when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in northern Iraq …
Deborah Sontag / New York Times:
Videotape Offers a Window Into a Terror Suspect's Isolation — One spring day during his three and a half years as an enemy combatant, Jose Padilla experienced a break from the monotony of his solitary confinement in a bare cell in the brig at the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, S.C.
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Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
Separating Hyperbole From Horror in Iraq — Over the course of last week, an Associated Press article — one subsequently challenged by the military — in which six Sunni worshipers were reportedly doused in kerosene and burned alive by Shiite attackers, became the worst kind of totem.
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Hot Air, The Jawa Report, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Democratic Daily and Alabama Liberation Front
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Bush Is Weighing Options for New Strategy in Iraq, Aide Says — Hadley Says Previously Rejected Ideas Are on Table, Including Suggestions in Rumsfeld's Memo — Nearly four years after invading Iraq, President Bush is sorting through an array of options — none of them easy — for a way out …
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Observer:
See exclusive new pictures of Alexander Litvinenko — Mark Townsend, Jamie Doward, Tom Parfitt in Moscow and Barbara McMahon in Rome — Alexander Litvinenko with a Scottish bonnet, Chechen swords and KGB gauntlets. Photograph: Copyright Guardian News and Media. All rights reserved.
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Robert Tait / Guardian:
Censorship fears rise as Iran blocks access to top websites — Iran yesterday shut down access to some of the world's most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to service providers to filter them.
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Congress open to passing bill on immigration — Congress will approve an immigration bill that will grant citizenship rights to most of the 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. after Democrats take control next month, predict both sides on Capitol Hill.
Abu Kais / From Beirut to the Beltway:
Syria and Hizbullah to intensify offensive — The Hizbullah supporter that was shot dead on Sunday may or may not have been shot by the Sunni residents of Qasqas. The area is infested with pro-Assad Ahbash Islamists, and I would not put it past one of them or some Syrian intelligence operative …
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Zeina Karam / Associated Press:Sectarian clashes in West Beirut kill 1
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Gateway Pundit, From Beirut to the Beltway, A Blog For All, Right Wing Nut House and Riehl World View
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Bathing in Black Gold for Health and Profit in Azerbaijan — NAFTALAN, Azerbaijan — Outside this improbable spa in a remote part of the former Soviet Union, oil rigs bob on a hardscrabble plain of rocks, shrubs and rusting industrial equipment that could easily pass for a stretch of West Texas.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Who Opposed War Move Into Key Positions — New Committee Chairmen Had Warned of Postwar Disorder — Although given little public credit at the time, or since, many of the 126 House Democrats who spoke out and voted against the October 2002 resolution that gave President Bush authority …
Matt Belanger / KCLO-TV:
Daschle Will Not Seek Presidency — He served as a senator representing South Dakotans in Washington for more than 25 years and has invested more than a year laying the groundwork for a presidential campaign. — Tom Daschle was expected to make a decision about running for president …
John Heilprin / Associated Press:
Bush may end drilling ban in Alaskan bay — WASHINGTON - President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
A Breach of Manners Sets a Tough Town Atwitter — SENATOR-ELECT JIM WEBB was, perhaps, answering honestly when President Bush asked him at a White House reception how his son, serving in Iraq, was doing. — But it was not according to protocol, and Mr. Bush let him know.
New York Times:
U.S. Report Finds Dismal Training of Afghan Police — Five years after the fall of the Taliban, a joint report by the Pentagon and the State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work …
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