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Gates pushes Iraq’s leaders on reconciliation at ‘difficult’ talks

BAGHDAD (AP) — American paratroopers found the ID cards of two missing soldiers at an Al Qaeda safe house 125 kilometres north of where the men were snatched in an ambush last month, the military said on Saturday. The soldiers found computers, video equipment and weapons but no sign of …

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US to lift sanctions on new Abbas gov’t

RAMALLAH (AP) — Embattled Mahmoud Abbas got a major boost in his increasingly bellicose showdown with Hamas on Saturday, with a US diplomat saying he expects a crippling 15-month-old foreign aid embargo to be lifted once the Palestinian president appoints an emergency government without the Islamic fighters.

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