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ABC News: McCain Camp: Obama 'Wrong' on Iraq (U.S., 32 articles)
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BAGHDAD - Senator Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi politicians, as an Iraqi spokesman said that the government was hopeful that foreign combat troops would withdraw in 2010. 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. The department said the State Department issued similar orders ahead of presumed Republican nominee John McCain s overseas tours to Iraq, Mexico and elsewhere this year, but limited the communication to embassies in countries the Republican planned to visit. Al-Dabbagh said the government did not endorse a fixed date, but hoped American combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. The Pentagon's top military commander, Adm. Mike Mullen, said today that a fixed timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal could jeopardize the progress that has been made in Iraq. 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.
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Iran Gives Nations in Nuclear Talks Two Pages and No Ground (World, 18 articles)
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During that time, Iranians have been deprived of US consular services, and US diplomats have lost direct contact with Iran and its people. 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. Choose negotiation or isolation, U.S. tells Iran after nuke talks 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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War crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic arrested in Serbia (World, 16 articles)
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Serge Brammertz hailed the arrest as an important step in bringing to justice one of the architects of Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, has been arrested in Serbia after more than a decade on the run. Radovan Karadzic has spent his first night in a cell at the special war crimes court in Belgrade, after 13 years on the run.
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ABC News: How Oil Prices Translate to the Pump (U.S., 11 articles)
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Drivers received a brief reprieve from soaring gas prices when the price of oil dropped $16 a barrel last week, but consumers should pump the brakes on the idea of a large, instant price reduction at their local stations. The Interior Department is scheduled to unveil proposed regulations Tuesday for a program to sell oil shale leases on federal lands, similar to the leases sold now for oil and natural gas both on and offshore. NEW YORK - Oil prices rose Monday on a threat of new sanctions against Iran and as Tropical Storm Dolly headed into the Gulf of Mexico, prompting a hurricane watch for parts of Texas and Mexico.
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Video: Robert Murat accepts £600,000 after Madeleine McCann allegations (U.S., 13 articles)
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The investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been completed by Portuguese police amid reports that no evidence has been found against her parents. The Portuguese Attorney-General confirmed yesterday that prosecutors had received the final police report and would now consider if the investigation should be closed. In the 14 months since the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann, who vanished aged three from a Portuguese holiday apartment, the story has remained front page news.
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