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In a speech Tuesday, President Bush defended the mission in Iraq as a critical component in the global war on terrorism. Two U.S. Senators who have traveled to Iraq offer perspective on the postwar situation and U.S. foreign policy.

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Vladimir Gusinsky, the former Russian media tycoon arrested in Athens on fraud charges Aug. 21, will remain in a Greek prison until a top court decides whether to extradite Gusinsky to his native country.

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Tennis champion Pete Sampras officially retired at the beginning of the U.S. Open. Terence Smith looks at Sampras' career with sportswriter John Feinstein.

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Convicted pedophile priest John Geoghan died last weekend after a fellow inmate attacked him in prison. Ray Suarez discusses the murder with Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for many of Geoghan's alleged victims, and Stephen Pope, the chairman of the Theology…

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Both the United Nations and American forces suffered casualties this week in Iraq.

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Central Command offered no further details on how Saddam's close colleague was captured, or where he has been placed in custody.

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld addressed security concerns in Iraq after Tuesday's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad…

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In the wake of the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, experts discuss the situation in postwar Iraq and the role of the United Nations there.

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FBI agents said that the bomb that caused the explosion outside the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was made of old munitions. Gwen Ifill gets an update from Dexter Filkins of The New York Times.

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The explosion of a powerful truck bomb partially destroyed the hotel that houses the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 15 people, including the top U.N. envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, and wounding 100 others.

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