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• Georgia says Russian troop pullback complete
... withdrawal is complete," said ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili. Russian forces pulled back Wednesday from positions outside South Ossetia, bulldozing a camp at a key checkpoint and withdrawing into the separatist region as European Union monitors ...
• Dozens seek mortgage intervention
SeaTac, Wash. - Dozens of local homeowners spent today trying to avoid foreclosure. They attended a "mortgage intervention seminar" in SeaTac to get advice. RealtyTrac, an organization that monitors industry trends, says foreclosure filings have gone ...
• Bombers strike in Mosul, Baghdad, killing 13
... has been set. On Sunday, the spokesman for the election commission, Qassim al-Aboudi, told reporters that a total of 440 provincial seats would be contested, with 57 of them in Baghdad. About 20,000 people have been trained as election monitors, he said
• Anti-Obama anger erupts at McCain events
Presidential candidates are accustomed to raucous rallies this close to Election Day and welcome the enthusiasm. But they are also traditionally monitors of sorts from the stage. Part of their job is to leaven proceedings if tempers run ragged and to ...
• Las Vegas is down, but far from out
Sitting in the poker room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas late last month, grizzled Texas hold ’em players kept one eye on their cards and another on the flat-screen TV monitors around the room. While various sorts of sports programming are ...