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INTERNATIONAL NEWS:
Military Successes Drive Anbar Casualties to Post-Invasion Low
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. causalities in Iraq's once-volatile Anbar Province
have dropped in recent months to the lowest levels since the U.S. invasion
in March 2003, a fact some analysts attribute to the success of the 2004
Battle of Fallujah and the more recent "surge" strategy that increased U.S.
troops in the province...
McCain, Obama Differ on Approach to Judicial Nominees
(CNSNews.com) - The records of Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack
Obama (D-Ill.) are very different when it comes to judges and courts. The
Republican and Democratic candidates for president are far apart when it
comes to judicial philosophy and the votes they cast on major judicial
nominations during the 109th and 110th Congresses...
Conservative, Libertarian Differ on Obama's Take of Gitmo Ruling
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) support for the Supreme
Court ruling on Thursday giving terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay access
to the federal courts attracted differing responses from a libertarian and a
conservative on Friday...
Parent Sees 'Devastation' if Congress Kills DC School Choice
(CNSNews.com) - A decision by Congress to end funding for the
District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program would be
"devastating" if it occurs, said one Washington, D.C., mother whose son
receives a school voucher through the program...
'One Child' Policy Weakens Chinese Economy, Expert Says
(CNSNews.com) - China's "one-child" per couple population control policy
may be costing the Chinese economy billions of dollars, Steven Mosher,
president of the Population Research Institute, said at a lecture in
Washington, D.C., on Friday...
Pakistan Rejects Karzai Threats to Hit Back Across Border
(CNSNews.com) - Amid deteriorating relations between putative
war-on-terror allies Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islamabad on Monday summoned
its neighbor's ambassador to protest a weekend threat by Afghan President
Hamid Karzai to strike back at terrorists who mount cross-border attacks
from Pakistani soil...
Israel Providing Supplies for Gaza Rockets
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Israeli farmers on Sunday gathered at one of
the Gaza Strip's main crossing points to protest continued shipment into the
volatile Hamas-ruled territory of humanitarian aid that contains all the
elements needed to construct the rockets Palestinian terrorists pummel
southern Israel with on a daily basis...
Rice Butts Heads With Israelis Over Jerusalem
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
arrived in Israel at the weekend far more agitated than usual with what she
called Israel's "settlement activity" on the eastern side of Jerusalem.
Israel responded by approving the construction of even more Jewish homes in
the capital...
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