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    Medicare Drug Bills Pass in House and Senate

    Jun 27, 2003 05:54 PM EDT

    ... House Republicans said their bill modernizes and prepares Medicare for the looming retirement of baby boomers. Democrats decried it as a sham and donned black armbands as if mourning the program's demise. "It destroys Medicare as we know it," said Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) But supporters such as ...

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    Rebels Near Liberian Capitol, Intense Fighting Continues

    Jun 25, 2003 09:15 PM EDT

    ... will have to be thrashed out," government spokesman Vaanii Paasawe told the Associated Press last week. On Monday night, chief peace talks negotiator General Abdulsalami Abubakar of Nigeria called a two-day recess to the talks, according to a report from a U.N. news service. Rebel leaders had apparently ...

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    Hundreds of Thousands Make Shiite Pilgrimage to Karbala

    Apr 22, 2003 04:25 PM EDT

    ... regime, Shiites, who comprise a majority of the Iraqi population, experienced severe suppression. In 1977, the last time Shiites celebrated the pilgrimage, known as the Arbaiin, Saddam's police forces killed many on the road to Karbala. Tuesday's pilgrimage marked the first time since then that Shiites could march ...

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    U.S. Releases Yemeni Missile Shipment

    Dec 10, 2002 06:50 PM EDT

    Yemen had protested the seizure, saying that it paid for the weapons and intended them to be used by its armed forces. "The shipment is part of contracts signed some time ago. It belongs to the Yemeni government and its army and meant for defensive purposes," Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubakr ...

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    Jewish Settlers Killed in Hebron Ambush

    Nov 15, 2002 11:12 PM EDT

    ... violence in recent weeks, is home to about 450 Jewish settlers and 130,000 Palestinians. Thousands of Israelis live in the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba and many walk to the tomb, which is said to mark the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, every Friday evening. One Israeli ...

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    U.S. Charges Abu Sayyaf Members in Missionary's Death

    Jul 23, 2002 08:25 PM EDT

    ... Thompson said the rebels "brutally beheaded" the third American captive, Guillermo Sobero of Corona, California, last June. Federal indictments identify the five men as Khadafi Abubakar Janjalani, Isnilon Totoni Hapilon, Aldam Tilao, Jainal Antel Sali Jr. and Hamsiraji Marusi Sali. They stand charged with conspiracy resulting in death, hostage-taking ...

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    New Relationship: U.S. and Russia

    May 22, 2002 04:00 AM EDT

    SIMON MARKS: At the Russian parliament, the Duma, where President Putin now controls a coalition that is expected to back the new nuclear treaty with Washington, you can nevertheless hear a similar viewpoint. And you can hear it from a new generation of young reformers, like Alexei Arbatov. The deputy ...

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    Widening the War

    Jan 16, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... went on to accelerate these terrorist activities in terms of engaging in kidnap for ransom activities. Subsequently, after this was founded by this person, [Abduragak Abubakar] Janjalani was his name, -- JIM LEHRER: Janjalani. ALBERT DEL ROSARIO: Yes -- there was also a fellow called Khadafy, who happened to be the brother ...

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    A Russian View

    Aug 14, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... is unilaterally abrogated by the United States, Russia would certainly go for MIRVing its ICBMs. RAY SUAREZ: Well, thanks a lot for joining us, Alexei Arbatov. ALEXEI ARBATOV: Thank you. GWEN IFILL: We'll get the American point of view Thursday, in a Newsmaker interview with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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    Palestinians mark Christmas in Bethlehem while navigating life during conflict

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    ... are waiting. Karl Bostic: Because Augusta Victoria Hospital provides cancer and kidney treatment for Palestinians from the West Bank and, until the war began, Gazans, Ruba has become used to this unpredictability, accepting it with grace. But that doesn't make it any easier on her family. Ruba Mahdi (through ...