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Page: Dems find hope amid GOP chaos
Chicago Tribune - 5 Hours ago
Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. Since those are two states that President Barack Obama won last year, vulnerable Democratic lawmakers

Clarence Page: Democrats find hope in GOP chaos Merced Sun-Star

Dems find hope in GOP chaos Hutchinson News

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Chapman: Dangerous Cold War nostalgia
Chicago Tribune - 5 Hours ago
Communism's collapse left a void that has not been filled Communism was the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century, and one of the greatest in human history. Twenty years ago, suddenly and improbably,

Our Dangerous Cold War Nostalgia Creators.Com

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George F. Will on the changing climate for a global warming treaty
Washington Post - 14 Hours ago
So, all is lost. The chances of a comprehensive and binding treaty are approximately nil. The fourth of five parlays preparing for Copenhagen occurred in Bangkok from Sept. 28 through Oct. 9, with delegates

Global Climate Change Treaty Delayed Truth News

George Will: The Truth About Global Warming MSNBC Newsweek

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Andy Borowitz: Fox News Reports: Millions of Grannies Flee U.S. as Death Panels
Huffington Post - 5 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - With the establishment of government-mandated death panels just days away, grandmothers began fleeing the United States in record numbers today, reports Fox News. "I Add Comment

US politics

House, Senate health care bills detailed
Washington Post - 95 Minutes ago
WASHINGTON -- A comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,

Democrats confident on House healthcare vote Ottawa Citizen

Obama wins big as House approves health care bill Sydney Morning Herald

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House passes landmark health care bill
San Francisco Chronicle - 3 Hours ago
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House OKs health reform bill Washington Times

Health care passes House Motley Fool Discussion Boards

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U.S. House approves bill to overhaul healthcare
National Post - 5 Hours ago
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly endorsed on Saturday the biggest healthcare overhaul in decades, giving President Barack Obama a crucial victory in a battle that now moves to

U.S. House Passes Health Care Bill Forbes.com

House poised for historic vote (40 comments) Las Vegas Sun

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Highlights of Obama's trip to Asia
Chicago Tribune - 61 Minutes ago
A day-by-day look at President Barack Obama's trip to Asia: Departs for Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea, through Nov. 19. En route to Tokyo, Japan, stops at Elmendorf Air Base, Alaska, to speak

Highlights of Obamas trip to Asia MyNorthwest.com

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US social policy

Democrats confident on House healthcare vote Ottawa Citizen

Obama wins big as House approves health care bill Sydney Morning Herald

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U.S. House Passes Health Care Bill Forbes.com

House poised for historic vote (40 comments) Las Vegas Sun

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Obama visits Hill as U.S. health care vote looms
CNN - 16 Hours ago
Questions about an abortion-related provision had threatened to derail the health care bill in the House. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: 35 Democrats plan to vote no on legislation that needs 218 votes to pass Add Comment

International development

NGO donates to Nsawam Prisons
Ghana News Agency - 5 Hours ago
Nsawam (E/R), Nov. 6, GNA - Passion for Needy, a charitable organization of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), on Thursday donated items worth GHCÂ¢4,142.00 to the inmates of Nsawam Medium Security

6th November, 2009 NGO donates to Nsawam Prisons Ghana News Agency

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Developing nations need more time to pass crisis: Mubarak
CHINAdaily - 7 Hours ago
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Developing countries need a longer time to overcome the side effects of the global financial crisis, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said here Sunday. 'This economic crisis added Add Comment

Developing countries need longer time to survive financial crisis:Mubarak
Xinhua News Agency - 9 Hours ago
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Developing countries need a longer time to overcome the side effects of the global financial crisis, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said here Sunday. 'This

Developing countries need longer time to survive financial crisis: Mubarak RBC Dain Rauscher

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Developing countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent in ten years
Cambodian Times - 9 Hours ago
Developing countries including China, India and Brazil will cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 according to new research. The progress of the countries in their quest to cut emissions Add Comment

Human rights

Aid workers honoured with humanitarian...
TV3 Ireland - 3 Hours ago
Freed Irish aid worker Sharon Commins and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki has been honoured with a humanitarian award. The GOAL workers were released last month after 107 days in captivity, and received

Freed aid workers are honoured Freed aid worker Sharon Commins has been honoured Derbyshire Times

Freed aid workers are honoured (13:38) Kerryman

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RCMP charges Ont. man with Rwandan war crimes
National Post - 58 Minutes ago
OTTAWA -- RCMP officers from Ottawa arrested a 37-year-old man in Windsor, Ont., on Friday for allegedly committing an act of genocide in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide in the African country. Police

RCMP charges Ontario man with alleged Rwandan war crimes National Post

RCMP arrest and charge alleged Rwandan war criminal after 6-year probe FM93

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Ed Roberts Campus leads way for human rights
San Francisco Chronicle - 10 Hours ago
Dmitri Belser is a busy man these days. As president of the Ed Roberts Campus, a headquarters for disability rights groups under construction in Berkeley, Belser spends his days on change orders, design Add Comment

Canadian man charged in Rwandan genocide
UPI - 111 Minutes ago
WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A 37-year-old Windsor, Ontario, man has been charged with committing an act of genocide in Rwanda in 1994, Canadian authorities said. Add Comment

Iran

Iran warns Russia over missile delay
Jerusalem Post - 5 Hours ago
A senior Iranian lawmaker warned Russia that its delay in delivering an anti-aircraft missile defense system to Teheran could harm relations between the two countries, state television reported Sunday.

Iran's top lawmaker warns Russia over delay in delivery of anti-aircraft missiles Yahoo! Canada

Iran criticizes Russia's delay over delivery of S-300 missile: lawmaker Xinhua News Agency

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Iran: Deal 'off' to ship out uranium
CNN - 15 Hours ago
IAEA inspectors arrived at Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran early on October 25, 2009. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Report: Iran would not ship low-enriched uranium out of the country Was a major part of a nuclear

Iran may reject plans to ship out uranium Observer

Report: Iran will not ship uranium out of the country KMVT

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Iran names and shames well-paid actors
Guardian.co.uk - 37 Minutes ago
Publicity over Â£55,000 fee paid to Iranian actor Mohammad Reza Golzar for three days' work leads to threats of tax crackdown Being paid Â£55,000 for three days of playing an angel is nice work, if you Add Comment

Iran parliament frees government hand over subsidies
Reuters UK - 8 Hours ago
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's parliament voted on Sunday to give the government a free hand to spend money saved from cutting food and fuel subsidies, in an apparent victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran parliament frees govt hand over subsidies Khaleej Times

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Iraq

Iraqi lawmakers pass election law
Reuters UK - 2 Hours ago
BAGHDAD, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament on Sunday passed a long-delayed election law paving the way for a national election in January after overcoming disagreements over the disputed city of Kirkuk,

UPDATE 1-Iraqi lawmakers pass election law Reuters India

Iraqi MPs pass delayed election law Al Jazeera

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Iraqi parliament passes key voting law
CNN - 64 Minutes ago
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) Officials had hoped to hold elections January 16, but Iraq's election commission said Sunday the elections will take place later than that -- but before January 31, the constitutional

Iraqi parliament approves controversial elections bill Xinhua News Agency

1st LD: Iraqi parliament approves controversial elections bill Individual.com

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Women fight new battle in Iraq's insurgent corner
Reuters - 4 Hours ago
By Suadad al-Salhy LATIFIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - In what was once one of Iraq's deadliest areas, women who survived sectarian carnage and insurgency now fight a new battle to feed families whose menfolk

Women fight new battle in Iraq's insurgent corner (Reuters) Yahoo! News Australia

Women fight new battle in Iraq's insurgent corner (Reuters) Yahoo! News

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Iraq MPs approve election reform
BBC - 2 Hours ago
The Iraqi parliament has approved a crucial election law ahead of a general election due in January 2010. The UN had warned that it could not guarantee to endorse the polls if the bill had not been approved.

Iraq approves 2010 election law: official The Age

Iraq approves 2010 election law: parliamentary official Yahoo! Canada

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US security

Some Predicted Trouble From Fort Hood's Maj. Hasan
ABC News - 5 Hours ago
Fort Hood suspect told 'There's something wrong with you,' after others also saw trouble ahead

Fort Hood shooter a 'damaged' man acting alone The Age

'Telegraph': Alleged Fort Hood shooter Hasan prayed at 9/11 mosque Jerusalem Post

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US Attorney General: Gitmo Reviews Under Way
CBS News - 5 Hours ago
US Attorney General Says Trial Reviews Under Way For Guantanamo Detainees

US Attorney General: Gitmo Reviews Under Way 27 min ago WSOC-TV

US attorney general says trial reviews under way for Guantanamo detainees South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Swiss open probe linked to French al-Qaida suspect
Washington Post - 5 Hours ago
BERN, Switzerland -- Switzerland has opened its own investigation into the case of a nuclear physicist France suspects of al-Qaida links, an official said Sunday. The French suspect, who worked at the

Swiss open probe into case of French nuclear physicist suspected of al-Qaida tie Yahoo! Canada

Swiss open probe of al-Qaida nuke physicist case Press of Atlantic City

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Army general warns of anti-Muslim 'backlash'
Herald Sun - 3 Hours ago
US army chief of staff George Casey has warned deadly shootings at Fort Hood could prompt a backlash against Muslim soldiers, undermining diversity needed to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Washington: Army general warns of anti-Muslim 'backlash' Brisbane Courier-Mail

Some fear backlash against Muslims in US military Channel 8 Eyewitness News

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Climate change

Why India Is Playing Hard to Get on Climate Change
Time - 14 Hours ago
If U.S. diplomats consider India to be a major obstacle to global climate-change negotiations â?? and they do â?? it might be because of Sunita Narain. The director of the influential Centre for Science

Democrats play hard ball in climate bill battle BusinessGreen

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New climate taxes would affect OPEC-Algeria
Forbes.com - 6 Hours ago
ALGIERS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - OPEC is worried about the possibility of new taxes being imposed on oil and gas by world leaders at their summit on climate change scheduled for next month in Copenhagen, Algerian Add Comment

All change as gas reserves soar
BBC - 66 Minutes ago
By Jorn Madslien Business reporter, BBC News, Stavanger New technologies make it cheaper and easier to extract gas from shale rock. With coal being too dirty and wind farms and nuclear power plants arriving Add Comment

G20 fails to agree on the finances of fighting climate change
Sydney Morning Herald - 5 Hours ago
ST ANDREWS: The G20 talked big but delivered little on climate finance, campaigners said, as the clock ticks down to the summit in Copenhagen next month. One of the key talking points on Saturday for

Fight against climate change, poverty: Hasina for closer fraternity among SAARC News From Bangladesh

G20 leaders fail to agree climate change financing Webindia123

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Physical Sciences

New pathway for DNA damage from nano-particles
Khaleej Times - 5 Hours ago
The stunning discovery adds to a growing body of research highlighting proven and potential health hazards from the rapidly expanding universe of engineered objects measured in billionths of a metre.

New path for DNA damage from nano-particles: study China Post

Nano 'signals' may damage DNA South China Morning Post

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El Reg's LHC visit - Deleted Scenes
The Register - 9 Hours ago
The Large Hadron Collider - the gigantic underground double-barrelled particle cannon assembled by top boffins deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border - is to start up again 'around the 20th' of this month. Add Comment

'Baguette' problem halts work on Large Hadron Collider
3 News - 18 Hours ago
The Large Hadron Collider suffered yet another setback this week when a bird dropped a piece of bread onto it. Add Comment

Signature of antimatter detected in lightning
Science News Online - 19 Hours ago
Fermi telescope finds evidence that positrons, not just electrons, are in storms on Earth Text Size Antimatter lightningDuring two recent lightning storms, the Fermi telescope found evidence that positrons,

Antimatter Signature Detected in Lightning US News

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