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Iraq's Oct. Oil Exports Drop Due To Attacks

Official: Iraq's Oil October Exports Drop Due To Insurgent Attacks, But Revenues Increase (AP) BAGHDAD (AP) - An Iraqi official says insurgent attacks caused a 4 percent drop in the country's oil exports in October compared to...

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Officials: 4 Dead In Attacks Around Iraq

Officials: 4 Dead, Including 2 Police Officers, In Attacks In Iraq (AP) BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi security officials say four people have been killed in attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul. They say two police officers...

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Liberians Mourn UN Worker Killed In Afghanistan

Liberians Mourn UN Worker Killed In October Attack On UN House In Afghanistan (AP) MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack...

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Intel work on Sabbath in Israel protested

JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- For a second Saturday in a row, ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied outside an Intel computer chip plant in Jerusalem, protesting work done on the Sabbath, police said. Two demonstrators were arrested after...

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Top Iranian reformer jailed for six years: report

By Fredrik Dahl and Hashem Kalantari TEHRAN (Reuters) - A reformist former vice president accused of fomenting widespread street unrest after Iran's June election has been sentenced to six years in jail, Iranian media said on...

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President Who?

WHO DO I call if I want to call Europe, Henry Kissinger once famously asked. For eight years European federalists labored to produce an answer to that question -- staging a constitutional convention, ignoring repeated rebuffs...

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Iran's Mousavi tells government to stop intimidation

TEHRAN, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Iran's opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said the government should stop intimidating people to try and change their political views, a reformist website reported on Sunday.

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Iraq could join WTO by end of 2011: US official

Iraq could get membership in the World Trade Organization by end-2011 if it actively pursues accession, which could help the country's rebuilding efforts by boosting trade and investment, a U.S. official said. Iraq began the...

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Book review: 'Growing Up Bin Laden' by Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden and Jean Sasson

Popular suspicions are confirmed by "Growing Up bin Laden," a repellent but oddly fascinating as-told-to memoir by bin Laden's first wife, Najwa, and fourth son, Omar. Assuming that their accounts, as recorded by Jean Sasson,...

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Virginia's archaic gubernatorial term limit

The Nov. 8 editorial "Virginia's Newest Lame Duck" was on the mark. We are the only state in which the governor cannot be elected to two successive terms. This limits governors' effectiveness and their ability to accomplish...

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