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  • Afghan, Coalition Troops Curtail Terrorists, Destroy Drugs, Weapons
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  • Gates Provides Continuity as Nation Fights Two Wars, Obama Says
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  • Iraq attacks leave 31 dead, 47 injured
  • Suicide car bombing kills 16 in Iraq
  • Iraq court directs US to free photographer detained for over 2 months
  • Iraq sees modern military, infrastructure by 2012 after agreement with U.S.
  • Ivan Watson Discusses Life In Baghdad
  • Iraq to revive dead farmland by sucking out salt

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    US President-elect Barack Obama named Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, as Secretary of State and asked Defence Secretary Robert Gates to stay on in that job as he announced his national security team...

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    Iraq bomb attacks take many lives
    Thirty-one people were killed and 47 wounded in a spate of bomb attacks in Baghdad and Mosul on...

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    President-elect Barack Obama has named his one-time political rival, New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, as his secretary of...

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    US president-elect Barack Obama reiterated Monday that all American combat troops would be withdrawn from Iraq in 16 months, even while residual forces could remain...

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    Dow records shock 680 points plunge
    The euphoria of last week, which sent major stock indice higher, was missing on Monday as traders once again focused on prospects for the world...

    Energy stocks drop with the price of oil
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