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• Clinton confirmation hearing set for Tuesday
Jim DeMint, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "She expresses herself well, and I don't think she'll make any rookie mistakes." The timetable for Clinton's confirmation has been closely watched because her departure from the ...
• U.S.-funded program fails to stop Gaza tunnels
Army Corps of Engineers, which has helped train Egyptian border guards, and the Defense Department, which implements U.S. foreign military assistance programs, refused to give details of how and when the $23 million was spent. The U.S. Embassy in ...
• Somali kidnappers release 2 foreign journalists
British reporter Colin Freeman of The Sunday Telegraph, right, and Spanish freelance photographer Jose Cendon, sit Sunday in their hotel room in the semiautonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia. MOGADISHU, Somalia - Two foreign journalists ...
• China, U.S. praise 'pingpong diplomacy'
Negroponte, flanked by his Chinese counterpart Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya and U.S. Ambassador to China Clark T. Randt, watched Chinese and U.S. players play several matches. At the end of the games, Negroponte was given a small gift ...
• Presidential libraries to disclose future donors
Corporations and foreign nations are also major donors to presidential libraries. Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said there was "enormous potential for abuse" from the current lack of ...