Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the American government and military, very few are signing up to go, resettlement officials say. The reason, Iraqis say, is that they are not allowed to apply in Iraq.
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An Israeli tank shell killed three Palestinian children as they approached a rocket launcher in the northern Gaza Strip Wednesday afternoon, witnesses and paramedics said.
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The Bush administration prepared to ask Congress for an additional fifty billion dollars for the war in Iraq, a military jury exonerated the only officer facing trial for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Wednesday ordered a six-month shutdown of his militia in what his aides described as an attempt to reform the organization, President Bush said Tehran’s atomic ambitions could put the Middle East “under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust,” Iran rejected US accusations it was fomenting instability in Iraq, and northern Iraq was hit by major cholera outbreak.
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South Korea decided to build robot land.
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Venezuela decided to turn its clocks back by 30 minutes to get more sun.
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Opium production in Afghanistan is at record levels for the second consecutive year.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has lashed out at Democratic Senators Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin for calling for his replacement. “I don’t agree with Hilary,” he said.
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Melting ice in the Arctic revealed previously unknown islands that have yet to be claimed.
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Researchers in Uganda said that washing the penis after sex increases the risk of HIV infection. “Don’t just finish and jump out of bed,” advised Dr. Ronald Gray, co-author of the study. “There ought to be a little time left for postcoital cuddling.”
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The Associated Press reported the death toll for Iraqi civilians is double what it was a year ago.
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President Bush refused to endorse the Al-Maliki Government as several key US politicians called for it’s ousting, and Al-Maliki responded by saying US politicians have no right to impose timetables on his elected government and that his country can find friends elsewhere.
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President Bush tried to argue for staying in Iraq using Vietnam as a historical example. “Does he think we should have stayed in Vietnam?” asked Vietnam historian Stanley Karnow.
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A 1994 interview with Dick Cheney regarding the first Gulf war was released to the web in which he said we shouldn’t invade Baghdad.
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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are enduring a fifth day of power blackouts. The power outages began after the European Union suspended its funding of Gaza’s main electricity plant.
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The governor of the province of Muthanna was killed in a roadside bombing, two key US senators suggested that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government be replaced if it fails in a “last chance” bid for political reconciliation, a new study found that corporate news coverage of the Iraq war has dropped sharply in the last four months, Iraq’s Prime Minister made his first official visit to Syria to discuss security issues, a July Gallop poll found that 57% of the public consider the decision to invade Iraq a mistake, and new images have been released showing hundreds of Iraqi prisoners packed into cramped wire cages. “Those who are outside are no better than you, at least you have security,” the Iraqi Vice President said to prisoners.
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A bunch of naked people stood around on a glacier to promote awareness about climate change.
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US-funded herbicide aerial sprayings of coca plantations in Colombia near the Ecuador border has severely damaged the DNA of local residents, according to a new study.
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China ordered the media only to report on positive developments.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro said the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay is occupied ‘illegally’ and the US must hand it over to Cuba.
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A region in Russia started offering it’s citizens prizes to procreate, such as money, and refrigerators.
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