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CNN
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Hundreds of political prisoners locked in a Myanmar police compound are facing squalid living conditions following a massive government crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations staged in late September, a political activist leader hiding in Yang..
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Washington Post
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Leaders of the Hamas and Fatah parties began operating parallel Palestinian governments Friday after days of intense factional fighting that have sharply defined the political and geographic divisions undermining the Palestinian drive for statehood.
As..
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Washington Post
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More than 60 people were killed and dozens wounded in mortar strikes, drive-by shootings, roadside explosions, suicide bombings and other violent attacks in Iraq on Thursday, as a new study warned that the country was close to becoming a "failed state."..
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SF Gate
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The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the U.S. troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of President Bush's top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be li..
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CNN
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If elected president, Sen. Hillary Clinton said, she would likely keep some U.S. forces in Iraq in a supporting role after 2009 because America has "a remaining military as well as a political mission" that requires a presence there.
However, in an int..
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CNN
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U.S. and Iraqi security forces cannot solve the problem of violence in Iraq without political action and reconciliation with some militant groups, the U.S. commander in Iraq said on Thursday.
General David Petraeus, in his first news conference in Bagh..
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BBC News
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A top UN official is due in Zimbabwe for a five-day visit ahead of the presidential run-off, which continues to be marred by political violence.
Haile Menkerios is expected to meet politicians to discuss the situation in the run-up to the 27 June vote...
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BBC News
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Rival Lebanese leaders have agreed on steps to end the political deadlock that has led to the country's worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
The Western-backed government and the pro-Syrian opposition arrived at the deal after days of talks in Q..
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BBC News
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Iraq faces a period of economic growth and political progress, according to assessments by the International Monetary Fund and the UN.
The IMF sees 7% growth in 2008 and a similar rise next year, and says oil revenues from buoyant exports should be up..
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BBC News
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has called for immediate political action to contain the "deep crisis" in the West Bank and Gaza.
The statement was an unusual departure from its normally non-political stance.
The ICRC said the measures..
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SF Gate
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Tens of thousands of cheering, chanting supporters showered former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with rose petals as he triumphantly returned from exile Sunday, posing a thorny new challenge not only to President Pervez Musharraf but also to pro-Western opp..
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CNN
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A U.N. human rights investigator says he has met with several prominent political prisoners before ending his five-day mission to Myanmar. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro was sent by the U.N. to investigate allegations of widespread abuse in connection with the jun..
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SF Gate
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Iraq's divided political leadership, in a rare show of unity, skewered a nonbinding U.S. Senate resolution approved in Washington last week that endorses the decentralization of Iraq through the establishment of semiautonomous regions.
The measure's ad..
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SF Gate
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After keeping quiet for much of the year as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suppressed domestic opposition, the United States on Monday issued an unusually harsh rebuke to the government for locking up key political rivals ahead of next week's electi..
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SF Gate
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The Pentagon is disputing parts of a progress report on Iraq drafted by the Government Accountability Office and asking that some of the assessment's failing grades on key political and security benchmarks be changed before the final report is made public..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has called for political reconciliation and dialogue within the country.
The remarks came overnight after a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday allowed the return of exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Gen M..
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USA Today
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Iraq's vice president said Friday his Sunni political party will not return to its Cabinet positions unless their demands are met.
Tariq al-Hashemi's moderate party is part of a Sunni political alliance, the Accordance Front, which recently pulled five..
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BBC News
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Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, has called for a summit of the nation's main political factions in an attempt to break Iraq's political paralysis.
In recent weeks almost all Sunni members of the cabinet have quit. Others are boycotting meetings, l..
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Washington Post
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As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements..
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SF Gate
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Political infighting blocked lawmakers from opening debate Wednesday on legislation to oversee the oil industry as Iraqi and U.S. leaders called for reconciliation among Iraq's feuding factions.
An influential group of Sunni Muslim clerics, the Associa..
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