political nonsense

NASA was planning four spacewalks.
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China’s national state-run television networkbanned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslims.

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Twenty-five Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in several days of violence sparked when a Hamas operative was killed by a bomb in Gaza, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
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The Bush administration will inform Congress on Monday that Israel may have violated agreements with the United States when it fired American-supplied cluster munitions into southern Lebanon during its fight with Hezbollah last summer, the State Department said Saturday.
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US and Iraqi troops killed 250 militants, tens of thousands of US citizens protested the war at a mall, a girl’s school was bombed in a wave of ambushes, car bombs and gunbattles that left at least 47 people dead, two Iraq war movies won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, a US military helicopter was shot down and four american soldiers were kidnapped and executed.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav has been suspended as he faces an expected indictment for allegedly committing rape. On Thursday, dozens of Israeli women gathered outside Katsav’s residence in Jerusalem calling on him to resign.
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The Bush administration authorized US troops to kill or capture Iranian operatives in Iraq.
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The Pentagon announced more than three thousand US troops will have their deployment in Afghanistan extended an extra four months.
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According to a CBS News poll conducted Thursday through Sunday, 28 percent of Americans approve of the way the president is handling his job, and more than twice as many, 64 percent, disapprove.
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The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post-Watergate initiative hailed for decades as the best way to rid politics of the corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died over the weekend.
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Israel has named Maj Gen Gabi Ashkenazi as its new military chief, following the resignation last week of his predecessor, Lt Gen Dan Halutz.
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A new BBC international opinion poll found that the rest of the world thinks that the US should listen more.
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Ford revealed a hybrid SUV prototype that emits no pollution.
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A ten-year-old Palestinian girl died after being shot in the back of the head by Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Anata.
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In the Senate, John Warner of Virginia, former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, joined fellow Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Norm Coleman of Minnesota in producing the non-binding legislation expressing disagreement with Bush’s plan. Their announcement Monday brings to five the number of Senate Republicans publicly opposed to the president’s plan.
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The Iraq war is now costing eight point four billion dollars a month, according to new Pentagon statistics.
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3,200 more U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad on Sunday.
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In Iraq at least 78 people have died today in a pair of nearly simultaneous explosions. The bombs hit a predominantly Shiite commercial area in Baghdad. Over 150 people were also injured. This marks the second large bombing attack in Baghdad in less than a week.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has renewed accusations the Bush administration is under-equipping the Iraqi military.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops seized a prominent spokesman for Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday.

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