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• Specter: 'I'll be prepared' for 2010 race
The 62-year-old Matthews' contract with MSNBC expires in June. He has worked in Democratic politics before, running unsuccessfully for a northeast Philadelphia congressional seat in 1974 and working for former President Jimmy Carter and former House ...
• Deep political and social divisions
The supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy are largely middle-class citizens who say Thailand's electoral system is susceptible to vote-buying and argue that the rural majority in the north and the northeast — the Thaksin camp's ...
• Three Baghdad blasts kill at least 20 people
Three more people were killed in bomb attacks on police patrols in Baghdad and Baqouba, northeast of the capital, police said. The violence came as Iraqi lawmakers prepared for a vote Wednesday on a security pact with the United States that would ...
• Early data show strong Black Friday sales
Across the country, sales in the South were up 3.4 percent from last year while they climbed 2.6 percent in the Northeast as shoppers began scouring store aisles at midnight hoping to snag the best selection on early morning specials, some as much as ...
• Sri Lanka says dozens of Tamils Tigers killed
Government soldiers have in recent months captured a number of key rebel bases and large swaths of land previously controlled by the guerillas, seizing the country's entire west and forcing the insurgents into a shrinking territory in the northeast. ...