Sen. Barack Obama, in what observers say his most negative advertising of the primary season, cast his opponent as a compromised Washington insider. Sen. Hillary Clinton, responded by suggesting Obama’s message has become old-fashioned politics, asking Democrats to look harder at the two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination. As always, the two candidates […]
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A mortar assault on Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, followed by a series of attacks across Iraq left at least 54 people dead today, Agence France- Presse reported. Four attacks were made against the Green Zone, the site of the Iraqi government and U.S. embassy, injuring at least four people. The U.S. embassy was […]
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Fehmida Mirza, a member of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party, became the first woman speaker of the national assembly last Wednesday. She received 249 of the 324 votes in the new parliament, the Press Trust of India reported. Some members of the opposition clearly supported her in the secret ballot, since her total was […]
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The US will complete its mission in Iraq to ensure the country does not become a base for attacks on Americans, Vice-President Dick Cheney has said. Mr. Cheney is on a visit to Iraq and the Middle East coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, launched on 20 March, 2003. […]
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The leaders of the two major political parties, in an unexpectedly strong show of unity against President Pervez Musharraf, agreed Sunday that they would reinstate judges fired by the president and would seek to strip him of crucial powers. The power sharing deal, announced by Asif Ali Zardari, the leader of the largest party, […]
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