| 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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Lebanon?s speaker of Parliament on Wednesday pressed for agreement on his plan to restart negotiations between the Hezbollah-led opposition and the American-backed government.
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The White House report on Iraq?s political progress found that Iraqi leaders had met half of 18 ?benchmarks? that Congress had mandated.
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Despite conservatives? efforts to lump together MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party, the relationship between the two is often complicated.
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President Bush argued that his plan to begin gradually withdrawing some troops from Iraq was a ?return on success? that could be squandered by deeper and speedier reductions.
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Senate Democratic leaders called the plan to keep 130,000 troops in Iraq through mid-2008 unacceptable and promised to challenge it through legislation.
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Foreign troop levels could drop below 100,000 by the end of next year if Iraq?s security forces improve and if violence continues to decline, Iraq?s national security adviser said Wednesday.
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The two top American military and diplomatic officials in Iraq were unable to argue that the heightened troop levels had made more than fragile and transitory progress.
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In his testimony, Gen. David H. Petraeus proposed an American troop presence in Iraq that would be longer and larger than what many Democrats have advocated.
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Hamas has promised to protect press freedoms in Gaza, but its police force has been intimidating journalists.
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President Bush remains upbeat about prospects in Iraq, but it seems that he will no longer insist on ?victory? before the troops can come home.
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