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...Democratic Party, though, there are big advantages to the new schedule. It is meant to expand the pool of voters who have an early, and often definitive, say in who the candidate will be. Iowa and New Hampshire are small, northern and largely white; the new states to be added are intended to broaden the field and bring Hispanics and blacks into the process. Once reliably Republican, the Southwest is increasingly becoming a bloc of swing states, crucial to Democratic hopes for the White House. Officially, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada are all in the running for the Sun Belt spot...
...past three weeks, much of Israel's focus has been on the escalating crisis in Gaza - the fierce military and political battles with Hamas and other militants, and the effort to secure the release of captive soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit and to prevent the firing of homemade rockets from northern Gaza into Israel. But for a number of Israeli security officials, the more serious threat always lay farther to the north, in Lebanon, where the well-armed, deeply entrenched and disciplined militants of Hizballah have their stronghold...
...attack itself began around nine o'clock with Hizballah's traditional cross-border tactic - rockets and mortars launched from southern Lebanon began raining down on northern Israel. Then, in the ensuing chaos, a number of Hizballah foot soldiers crossed the border and ambushed a two-vehicle Israeli military patrol, killing three of the soldiers and dragging two others back into Lebanon. The attack was clearly planned in advance. The militants struck at a spot obscured from a nearby watchtower, and when a tank pursued them across the border soon after, explosives planted in the ground destroyed it. The four soldiers...
...ever truly belong in India. The origins of this antagonism are centuries old. In essence, hardline Hindus regard as a national humiliation the Islamic influence that pervades India's history, starting with the Mughal Renaissance in the 16th century, continuing with the birth of Islamic fundamentalism in Asia in northern India in the 1860s (the same creed followed by the Taliban) and enduring even today in India's national symbol, the Mughal mausoleum of the Taj Mahal. This distrust of Islam has only increased since independence in 1947: modern India was founded in the Muslim-Hindu bloodletting of Partition from...
...Later on Sunday two car bombs killed at least 17 near a Shi'ite mosque in northern Baghdad. Monday morning more bombs killed at least seven in the Shi'ite slum Sadr City...