UN extends protection for Iraqi assets

In a move sought by Iraq at a critical transition, the Security Council voted unanimously Monday to maintain U.N. protection for billions of dollars of Iraqi assets against seizure by governments, companies or individuals until the end of 2009.

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Fewer Marines needed in Iraq's western province

The U.S. Marine commandant said Wednesday that his forces in Iraq's once-volatile western Anbar province can be reduced, as the military moves to hand over control of the region to the Iraqis next week.

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McCain criticizes Obama's opposition to NAFTA

In a cross-border political attack, John McCain said Friday that Barack Obama's opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement is "nothing more than retreating behind protectionist walls."

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At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S.

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Any move by Turkish troops into predominantly Kurdish-populated northern Iraq to tackle the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases there would be a declaration of war, Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, head of the largely autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, has …

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As the Bush administration faces mounting domestic pressure to withdraw from Iraq, senior Iraqi officials are responding with alarm.

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As for my own reaction to Zebari's piece, I understand that it is primarily a political piece intended to influence the debate about Iraq going on in Congress.

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