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ABC News: McCain Camp: Obama 'Wrong' on Iraq (U.S., 31 articles)
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BAGHDAD - On the eve of Senator Barack Obama s visit to Iraq, its prime minister tried to step back Sunday from comments in an interview in which he appeared to support Mr. Obama's plan for troop withdrawal. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged steadfast aid to Afghanistan in talks Sunday with its Western-backed leader and vowed to pursue the war on terror "with vigor" if elected, an Afghan official said. The campaign of presidential nominee-to-be Sen. John McCain drew on comments by the Pentagon's top military commander today to attack Sen. Barack Obama's plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq in 16 months. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, as part of a Middle East trip that has many concerned about the candidate's safety. Obama said the troop surge in Iraq would fail to cut violence or improve political reconciliation, calling Iraq "an impediment" to success in the war on terror, which he said should be focused on Afghanistan. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign today released details of the candidate's upcoming trip to the Middle East and Europe, while dismissing criticism from the McCain camp that the trip is all show.
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Iran nuclear talks stall over demand to freeze uranium enrichment (World, 31 articles)
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Rice said Iran must give a "serious answer" within the deadline laid down by the six world powers to an offer of trade and technical incentives to halt uranium enrichment. The talks between Iran and the European Union's chief negotiators in Geneva failed to reach an agreement Sunday on Tehran's nuclear program, but the sides agreed to resume talks on suspending uranium enrichment in two weeks. The United States said on Saturday after inconclusive international talks with Iran's nuclear envoy that Tehran must choose between cooperation or confrontation and give up sensitive nuclear work.
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Obama pledges aid, military support to Afghanistan (World, 11 articles)
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Obama has made the US-led military mission in Afghanistan a central plank in his campaign platform, calling for 7,000 additional troops to be sent to the country as part of an overall drawdown in the number in Iraq. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush's top military adviser said on Sunday setting an unconditional two-year timetable for getting U.S. troops out of Iraq in two years would be dangerous. The agreement, announced in coordinated statements released Friday by the White House and Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki s government, reflected a significant shift in the war in Iraq.
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Outlook: A Glass-Half-Full View of the Budweiser Bid (U.S., 12 articles)
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Slate political writer John Dickerson was online Monday, April 7 at 2 p.m. ET to discuss his Outlook article about how and why past presidential candidates have made their decisions to end their campaigns, and what this tells us about Clinton-Obama. Washington Post metro reporter Ian Shapira was online Monday, May 5 at noon ET to discuss his Outlook article about Chelsea Clinton, her appeals to young voters on her mother's behalf, and to what extent she reflects the rest of her generation. Clinical psychologist Linda Blum was online Monday, June 30 at noon ET to discuss her Outlook article recounting the stories of the Iraq veterans she met and treated at Fort Dix, N.J., and psychological therapy for the persistent nagging mental trauma of war.
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Pope meets with clergy abuse victims in Australia (World, 17 articles)
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Support groups for victims of church abuse in Australia, whose numbers are not known but who activists say are in the thousands, had demanded the pope make a full and open apology for clergy abuse and do more to prevent future abuse. Sexual abuse by Catholic clergy has shadowed the pope's visit to Sydney, with emotional pleas by victims and their families for the pope to ensure that the Church deals openly with the issue. " As an expression of his ongoing pastoral concern for those who have been abused by members of the clergy, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI today celebrated Mass with a representative group of victims the Vatican said in a statement.
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