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Obama: Response to Iraq remarks overblown :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Barack Obama (World, 53 articles)
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The Iraqi Government said yesterday that it had a vision for all US combat troops to leave the country by the end of 2010 - another apparent endorsement of Barack Obama's war strategy during his visit to Baghdad. After meeting with top U.S. military commanders and members of the Iraqi government , Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, said Monday his opposition to the surge and support for a firm timetable for the withdrawal of troops hasn't changed. The Obama-Maliki meeting comes amid reports that Iraq's government shares the Democratic candidate's desire for a withdrawal of U.S. forces. Iraq's government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh who was present for the meeting spoke to reporters following and said that while his government did not endorse a fixed date they hoped "in 2010 that combat troops will withdraw from Iraq". 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. In a radio address on Saturday, he said Mr. Obama had been wrong about the increase in troops in Iraq, a strategy Mr. McCain said should be the basis for addressing deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan as well.
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Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Karadzic arrested (World, 46 articles)
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The arrest of Radovan Karadzic on Monday gave badly needed credibility to international war crimes tribunals that have struggled for years to bring fugitives to justice, according to former prosecutors, legal experts and human rights groups. He is the most prominent Balkan war crimes suspect arrested since late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic was sent to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on genocide charges in 2001, leaving only two suspects at large. BELGRADE, SERBIA Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of a campaign of ethnic mass murder and a war crimes fugitive for more than a decade, was captured Monday by Serbian security forces, officials said.
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Obama pledges to push Israel-Palestinian peace talks (World, 12 articles)
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No excuses says visiting Obama about bulldozer terrorist The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Barack Obama, arrived Tuesday for what is scheduled to be a 36-hour visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama stepped into the thicket of Mideast politics Tuesday, declaring in Jordan that neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians are strong enough internally to make the bold concessions necessary for peace. Following dinner, Obama flew aboard his newly refurbished chartered campaign jet to Israel for meetings with Israeli leaders as well as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on the West Bank.
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Texas Instruments Disappoints and Predicts Weak 3rd Quarter (Finance, 16 articles)
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The New York-based company posted net income of $242.9 million, or 79 cents per share, for its fiscal first quarter, compared with a profit of $268.2 million, or 83 cents per share, a year earlier. The largest U.S. health insurer by market value said second-quarter net earnings fell to $337 million, or 27 cents per share, from $1.23 billion, or 89 cents per share, a year earlier. Earlier this month, UnitedHealth estimated earnings for the quarter at 64 cents to 66 cents per share, excluding special items, far below analysts' forecasts at the time.
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U.S. envoy will observe nuclear talks with Iran - (World, 17 articles)
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BRUSSELS, Belgium European Union nations approved new sanctions against Iran on Monday, including an assets freeze of the country's biggest bank. The Bank of Melli is suspected of providing services to Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and was blacklisted by the United States last year. For officials of the six countries sitting on the other side of the table, the paper addressed none of their ideas for resolving the crisis over Iran s nuclear program.
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