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McClatchy Newspapers

A former warlord who for a time had been on the CIA payroll was sworn in Friday as mayor of Mogadishu and announced a plan to pacify this turbulent African capital within 3 months by requiring resident to turn in their guns.

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AP

Police raided the premises of leftist groups in cities across Germany on suspicion of a plot to attack next month's G-8 summit. More than 900 federal and local police officers in cities including Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen searched some 40 apartm

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UPI

A critic of Iraq's draft oil law with perhaps the biggest shadow -- one its original authors -- says the version penned by oil experts has been compromised by politics and he no longer wants it approved. "I think really the majority of the

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AFP

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened Thursday to nationalize the country's largest steel company and private banks unless they make national interests a priority. [ie, line his pockets]

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AP

Some governments key to Iraq's future are balking at entering into an ambitious contract with the country that commits them to substantial aid in exchange for a promise of unity in Iraq with five years. The International Compact with Iraq,

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NY Times

Turkey's constitutional court today supported an effort to block a candidate for the country's presidency whose background is in political Islam, pitching the country into early national elections and a referendum on the role of religion in i

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Washington Post

In a serious rebuff to US diplomacy, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has refused to receive Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the eve of a critical regional summit on the future of the war-ravaged country, Iraqi and other Arab officals said yeste

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NY Times

The Middle East is abuzz with talk of "Shiitization." Since the war in Lebanon last summer, newspapers, TV news channels and Web sites in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere have reported that Sunnis, taken with Hezbollah's charismatic S

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Moscow News

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was suspending Russia's obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe(CFE) Treaty, the Reuters news agency reports. The Russian President linked the move to US plans for a missile defenc

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BBC News

Thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets of Caracas in protest at the president's decision to close the country's oldest private TV network which backed a 2002 coup which briefly ousted him.

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Kuwait News Agency

The Turkish military has set a "specific timetable" for trans-border operations including intrusions into northern Iraq, Turkish NTV news website reported on Friday. The move coincided with the arrival in Ankara by senior advisor to US Sec

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Barzelay.net

There was a motorcade of some sort coming South on 16th Street NW. As it approached the intersection, the light was red for the motorcade. But it didn't stop. The Cherokee, which had a green light, came into the path of the first of the oncoming

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Scotsman

An insurgent coalition yesterday announced an "Islamic Cabinet" for Iraq as it attempted to provide an alternative to the country's US-backed adminstration. The Islamic State of Iraq group named the head of al-Qaeda as its "minist

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Reuters

Taiwan is not eligible for membership in the WHO, nor is it even qualified to apply, a Chinese government spokesman said. The remarks came days after the self-ruled island applied for a full membership under the name Taiwan for the first time.

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