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• VP-elect Biden visits Kuwait on global tour
The senators met with Kuwait's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss Iraq, Iran and international relations. Biden is traveling in his role as a U.S. senator from Delaware. He takes office as vice president on Jan. 20 but has not yet resigned ...
• Great Lakes fear: Invasion of the monkey goby
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - Dozens of foreign species could spread across the Great Lakes in coming years despite policies designed to keep them out, causing significant environmental and economic damage, a federal report says. The National Center for ...
• Attack on U.S. patrol in Afghanistan kills 5
The Taliban regularly use suicide attacks against Afghan and foreign troops, but the majority of victims are civilians. There were 1,160 civilians killed in insurgency-related incidents in 2008, according to an AP casualty count — 368 by foreign ...
• 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 ...
• Clinton State Department team takes shape
Jan. 2: Hillary Clinton may now be the U.S.’s best hope of navigating the current Mideast crisis. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports. Nov. 20: Former President Bill Clinton’s foreign business dealings could derail Hillary Clinton’s chances of ...