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The war on terror. Obama has called for the U.S. to focus anew on Afghanistan and Pakistan, including sending two more combat brigades to Afghanistan and coordinating the counterterror fight more closely with Islamabad. In office, though, Obama may well wind up playing the same unilateral hand as George W...
What would Canada's Detroit Three, who export about 85% of their production south, do with a cash infusion - by some estimates anywhere from $2 billion to $4.3-billion? "They would cover payroll and hope things get better," says Alan White, an investment specialist at University of Toronto's Rotman...
The autonomy proposal is being spearheaded by independent Shi'ite lawmaker and former governor of the province, Wael Abdel-Latif al-Fadel, and its timing - Iraqis are to vote in January in what promise to be hotly contested provincial elections - is sure to escalate political tensions. Al-Fadel, a 58...
The Sunnis, who ruled dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein, are also hostile, having already had to confront the unpalatable prospect of the country's northern oil fields falling under the control of the Kurdish region. "This will create many problems over water rights, the delineation of borders, oil fields, mineral...
But that's not enough for some Iraqi leaders, like the firebrand Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. On Friday he threatened to resume attacks against U.S. troops if they don't withdraw "without retaining bases or signing agreements." By rejecting the pact, al-Sadr, like some other opponents of...