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Main stories: Ahmadinejad thumbs his nose at the West
feature The Iranian president delivers a defiant address to the United Nations.
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feature Congress and President Bush faced off over children’s health care this week, as Bush vetoed a $35 billion expansion of a government insurance program and Democrats launched a spirited campaign to override him.
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feature Soldiers this week succeeded in crushing a massive, peaceful uprising in Myanmar, after firing tear gas and bullets into unarmed crowds of monks and civilians, arresting hundreds of people, and terrorizing the population.
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feature Blackwater security contractors in Iraq have been involved in nearly 200 “escalation of force” incidents in Iraq since 2005, including several previously unreported killings of Iraqi civilians, congressional investigators reported this week.
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feature A renewed debate over U.S. 'torture,' Musharraf is re-elected—apparently, and British troops to leave Iraq
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Musharraf’s panicky power grab
feature Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf threw his nation into turmoil this week when he abruptly declared a state of emergency, suspended the constitution, and arrested thousands of political opponents, human-rights activists, judges, and lawyers.
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Recession worries rock the market
feature Anxieties over the U.S. economy mounted this week, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that economic growth would “slow noticeably” in coming months and warned of heightened inflation risks. High oil prices and the slumping dollar, B
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Bhutto’s challenge to a desperate Musharraf
feature Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s grip on power grew more precarious this week when the leading opposition leader, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, called on him to resign and began seeking an alliance with the general’s other political opp
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Turkey calls Iraq invasion ‘imminent’
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California in flames
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Musharraf gives a little ground
feature Pakistani leader Gen. Pervez Musharraf this week began to release hundreds of political prisoners and vowed to hang up his army uniform within days, though he refused to end the emergency rule he declared early this month. A Musharraf aide described the m
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New promise for stem cells
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Musharraf steps down as army chief
feature Under mounting pressure from political opponents, a tearful President Pervez Musharraf stepped down this week as head of Pakistan
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Argentina’s glamorous new president
feature Argentines this week elected their glamorous first lady, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to succeed her husband as president.
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