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Venezuelan politics, economy on the brink of change

By Ian James · Tuesday, Jan. 30,2007 12:03 a.m.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Hugo Chavez has just about everything a president could want: popular support, a marginalized opposition, congress firmly on his side and a booming economy as he starts his new six-year term.

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Monday, Jan. 29,2007 11:20 p.m.

Sara Lee Corp. will lay off nearly 1,700 employees as part of a reorganization plan to increase business performance.

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Monday, Jan. 29,2007 11:07 p.m.

Sara Lee Corp. will lay off nearly 1,700 employees as part of a reorganization plan to increase business performance.

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Iraqis estimate 250 militants dead in battle near Najaf

By Robert H. Reid · Monday, Jan. 29,2007 3 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S.-backed Iraqi troops on Sunday attacked insurgents allegedly plotting to kill pilgrims at a major Shiite Muslim religious festival, and Iraqi officials estimated some 250 militants died in the daylong battle near Najaf.

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By AP Reports · Sunday, Jan. 28,2007 11:28 p.m.

Sinn Fein members overwhelmingly voted Sunday to begin cooperating with the Northern Ireland police, a long-unthinkable commitment that could spur the return of a Catholic-Protestant administration for the British territory.

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Suicide car bomber kills 26 in Baghdad

Sunday, Jan. 28,2007 5:17 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide car bomber struck a mostly Shiite neighborhood Thursday in central Baghdad, killing 26 people, hours after the prime minister promised the coming U.S.-Iraq security sweep in the capital would pursue militants wherever they were hiding.

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Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 11:06 p.m.

Every American should have health care coverage within six years, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday as he set an ambitious goal soon after jumping into the 2008 presidential race.

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4 Americans shot execution style in Iraq helicopter crash

Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:12 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Four of the five Americans killed when a U.S. security company's helicopter crashed in a dangerous Sunni neighborhood in central Baghdad were shot execution-style in the back of the head, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Wednesday.

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Thursday, Jan. 25,2007 9:11 a.m.

The Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee dismissed President Bush's plans to increase troops strength in Iraq on Wednesday as "not in the national interest," an unusual wartime repudiation of the commander in chief.

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Bush defends Iraq plan to skeptical Democratic Congress

By Terence Hunt · Wednesday, Jan. 24,2007 12:24 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A politically weakened President Bush implored a skeptical Congress on Tuesday night to embrace his unpopular plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq, saying it represents the best hope in a war America must not lose. "Give it a chance to work," he said.

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Tuesday, Jan. 23,2007 7:10 p.m.

Three people were killed and 43 others sustained gunshot wounds during a Hezbollah-led protest that paralyzed Lebanon Tuesday.

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Monday, Jan. 22,2007 10:53 p.m.

President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!" and called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "missy" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday, lashing out at Washington for what he called unacceptable meddling in Venezuelan affairs. The tirade came after Washington raised concerns about a measure to grant the fiery leftist leader broad lawmaking powers. The National Assembly, which is controlled by the president's political allies, is expected to give final approval this week to what it calls the "enabling law," which would give Chavez the authority to pass a series of laws by decree during an 18-month period.

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Iran bars 38 nuclear inspectors

By Nasser Karimi · Monday, Jan. 22,2007 10:50 p.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran said Monday it has barred 38 members of a U.N. nuclear inspection team from entering the country, in what appeared to be retaliation for sanctions imposed last month over its contentious atomic program.

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