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NY Times

The diplomatic tangle between Venezuela, Argentina and the United States reached a new pitch on Monday when a jury in Miami convicted a wealthy Venezuelan businessman of acting as an “unregistered agent” of Venezuela on American soil.

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Rawstory.com

MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia test-fired three long-range missiles on Sunday and pronounced its nuclear deterrent strong in a show of force that experts said had not been seen since the days of the Cold War.

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New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced Saturday that it had removed North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism in a bid to salvage a fragile nuclear deal that seemed on the verge of collapse.

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New York Times - Intl Herald

Under the latest plan approved by lawmakers Friday, the Central Bank will dip into the national gold and hard currency reserves for loans to private Russian banks. (Something is going on in Russia and China that will greatly impact,... everything)

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english.aljazeera.net

There was no immediate confirmation from a European Union mission monitoring the pullback from the two zones, which are on Georgian territory adjoining the breakaway, pro-Russian areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

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UPI

Russia is moving back to hair-trigger alert testing for its strategic nuclear bombers and cruise missiles for the first time since the closing years of the Cold War. Its nuclear bombers will carry out "training flights" with "full comb

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Washington Post

The unraveling of the landmark deal to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programs began just weeks after its high point when U.S. negotiators presented Pyongyang with a sweeping plan for verifying its claims about its nuclear programs.

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Washington Post

For the first time in the 47-year history of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, Washington has offered direct aid to the island's Communist government. The offer marks a slight softening of the Bush administration's policy toward Cuba

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Future of Freedom Foundation

"Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties" was a 3-day conference beginning on June 6, 2008 and ending on Sunday, June 8, 2008. There were 21 speakers with each speaker given 45 minutes to 1 hour for his or her spee

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RawStory.com

The United States and China announced Tuesday a raft of trade agreements at the end of bilateral trade talks amid a faltering US economy buffeted by a financial crisis. (do you think that this trade agreement and the financial bailouts are linked :)

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AP

Attackers armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and at least one suicide car bomb assaulted the U.S. Embassy in the Yemeni capital. 16 people were killed, including 6 assailants, officials said. No Americans were hurt in the deadly

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