| 2,000-Year-Old Christian Community in Iraq Gains a Spiritual First in Baghdad
Iraq?s shrinking Christian population now has a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church, the first in Iraq in modern times.
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Condoleezza Rice said the administration would support new laws that would apply to contractors but expressed reservations about proposals to bring contractors under the military justice system.
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A former garbage dump on the outskirts of Tel Aviv will be named Ariel Sharon Park, after the former prime minster who fought to reclaim the land as open green space.
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The secretive world of the Blackwater compound in Baghdad is fraying under intense scrutiny.
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The amount of money the department pays to private contractors has soared, but it has added few officials to oversee the contracts.
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Saeed Jalili, Iran?s new chief nuclear negotiator, made his international debut in Rome on Tuesday, meeting with the European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana.
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Kurdish guerrillas are ambushing Iranian forces in battles chillingly similar to raids into Turkey in northern Iraq.
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American officials acknowledged that neither the United States nor Iraq had done much recently to constrain the Kurdish group whose raids into Turkey have heightened tensions along the border.
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American forces say they killed 49 militants after coming under heavy fire in Sadr City, but there were conflicting reports from Iraqi witnesses.
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A swarm of investigations has raised questions about the integrity and leadership of Israel?s prime minister, Ehud Olmert.
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President Jalal Talabani of Iraq said that Syria?s president had crossed a ?red line? by speaking approvingly of Turkey?s threat of a cross-border offensive.
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