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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spoke Sunday with the US ambassador to Kabul about the country's recent election and the administration's review of US strategy in the region, the White House said. Obama talked by phone with Ambassador Karl ...

US Legislators Debate Way Forward in Afghanistan

Voice of America

Afghan outlook bleak as Taliban grabs territory

The Associated Press

McCain warns against 'historic' error in Afghanistan

CNN

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AFP

MANILA — Search and rescue teams on Sunday struggled to reach areas of the northern Philippines cut off by storm-triggered landslides and flooding that have left more than 600 people dead, officials said. In the heavily-damaged northern province of ...

Rescuers search for more bodies in the Philippines

Reuters

Philippine Death Toll From Parma Storm Rises to 193

Bloomberg

Toll rises in Philippine flooding

BBC News

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 49 people and pushing the country closer to an offensive against militants in their main stronghold along the Afghan border. ...

Suicide attack kills 42 in Pakistan

Times Online

At least 42 dead in Pakistan market bombing: officials

AFP

Car bomb in Peshawar market kills 41

Los Angeles Times

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The New York Times looks at four swing vote senators on the Finance Committee: Rockefeller, Wyden, Snowe and Lincoln. And the Washington Post looks at the White House's efforts to find non-Congressional Republicans to say positive things about their ...

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Voice of America

Members of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs are pushing for legislation to impose new economic sanctions on Iran. But at a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, senior Obama administration officials asked Congress ...

US warns Iran may face more sanctions

Reuters

Obama's envoy to return to Middle East

Xinhua

US sanctions on Iran: Expanding 'pistachios and Persians' worldwide

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Reuters

MANCHESTER, England, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Conservatives aim to speed up planned rises in the state retirement age if elected to government in 2010 to ease pressure on government finances, the party's economics chief ...

Pension age to rise within 7 years, say Conservatives

Telegraph.co.uk

'Retire at 66' under new Tory plans

The Press Association

Conservatives to raise retirement age in bid to cut budget deficit

guardian.co.uk

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New York Times

Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve board, said on Sunday that the latest job report showing the nation's unemployment at 9.8 percent was “pretty awful” and said he expected the figure to climb even higher. ...

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan says growth to come in third ...

CNN

Alan Greenspan is the definiton of “EPIC FAIL”

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Unemployment Still Looking Grim, Says Analysts

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Los Angeles Times

Derrion Albert, 16, was beaten to death last week in a melee captured on cellphone video. The civil rights leader and the Nation of Islam figure use the occasion to c »</nobr>

Los Angeles Times

The talk show host's revelation that he had relationships with female employees sparks impassioned discussion about hypocrisy and sex in the workplace. By Matea Gold and Scott Collins Reporting from Los Angeles and New York - David Letterman has milked ...

Will Stupid Human Tricks Turn Off Letterman's Fans?

Washington Post

Source: Letterman Had a Fling with Another Staffer

People Magazine

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The Associated Press

MANILA, Philippines — Tens of thousands of villagers fled the likely path of a powerful typhoon bearing down Friday on the Philippines, as the government braced for the possibility of a second disaster just days after a storm killed more than 420 in ...

Philippines battens down for new storm

ABC Online

Philippines 'state of calamity' as typhoon looms

AFP

Philippines alert for super-typhoon

Aljazeera.net

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Xinhua

BEIJING, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Countries worldwide on Thursday lauded the great strides China has made in the past six decades, as the nation celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...

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Christian Science Monitor

To the vast majority of Americans, Rep. Alan Grayson (D) of Florida is the representative who told members of Congress late Tuesday night that the Republicans' health care plan was for sick Americans to die quickly. ...

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Los Angeles Times

The government's 60th-anniversary event will showcase military technology, most of which was made in China. Beijing dislikes its army's image as a poorly equipped force of rural enlistees. Military vehicles park near Tiananmen Square during a rehearsal ...

Beijing locked down ahead of national day parade

Reuters

China's 60th anniversary of Communism: public barred from parade

Telegraph.co.uk

Time for China to celebrate and to ponder

Xinhua

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Reuters

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New York Times

BERLIN — The politician everyone was talking about in the German capital the morning after national elections was not Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose party won the most votes, but the sm »</nobr>