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Zardari gambles with bold overtures to India

Islamabad :: Pakistan | about 17 hours ago

Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, has taken a big political gamble. At the weekend, he offered some of the strongest words of conciliation towards India of any Pakistani leader. He dismissed the first use of nuclear weapons in a conflict and proposed...

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Obama sends strong signals from the sidelines

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 18 hours ago

That announcement was the latest indication that the president-elect has decided to use the transition period to influence events at a time of crisis, when the current administration appears powerless to stop a slide. "There's no question that Bush is...

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Obama, Bush urge vastly different approaches to ease economic crisis

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 18 hours ago

Posted by pranay

WASHINGTON -- The incoming and outgoing presidents Saturday urged solutions to the country's economic crisis that seemed to be worlds apart. President-elect Barack Obama, reversing his post-election practice of not announcing major policy initiatives...

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Rockford Register Star, Illinois: Will state budget mess get fixed? Maybe next year

Springfield :: MO :: USA | about 21 hours ago

As with most things that have to do with the Illinois budget, you have to take the good with the bad, and the good seldom makes up for the bad. When Gov. Rod Blagojevich finally acted on Senate Bill 1103 to restore spending cuts he made during the summer,...

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Obama taps passionate defender for press secretary

Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 22 hours ago

Two of the top qualities Robert Gibbs brings to the job of White House press secretary are ones not found on his resume: He won't flinch at telling it like it is to the next president or telling it like he thinks it ought to be to the media.

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Grijalva: No word on Interior Cabinet post

Tucson :: AZ :: USA | about 23 hours ago

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., reportedly a candidate to become U.S. Interior secretary, says he hasn't yet been contacted about the job. A spokeswoman for Grijalva, named by several national publications as being on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama 's...

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Clinton pick raises eyebrows

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 23 hours ago

There is possibly no person President-elect Barack Obama considered for secretary of state who is more reliably pro-Israel than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. During the Democratic primaries, the New York senator said the United States could “obliterate”...

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45 years on, JFK killing haunts Secret Service protecting Obama

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 23 hours ago

Kennedy, who was assassinated 45 years ago, as once again a young, inspiring president is headed to the White House. President-elect Barack Obama has often been compared for his lofty ideals and charisma to the late JFK, who was shot dead in Dallas, Texas...

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Obama parody money gets Greeley mayor in trouble

Greeley :: CO :: USA | 1 day ago

The $3 bill was intended as a satire of president-elect Barack Obama, but instead became another blemish for a mayor who recently snatched a 15-year-old boy off a moving motorscooter. Greeley Mayor Ed Clark, a former police officer who also is the head...

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FindLaw: Gates, Rice defend US-Iraq security agreement

Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 day ago

The security agreement between U.S. and Iraq provides both the time and authority needed for American troops to train Iraqi forces and pursue terrorists, senior Bush administration officials said Wednesday. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary...

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