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• Bush faces tough challenges in final 100 days
After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased the North from a terrorism blacklist. Bush's diplomats acknowledge the challenge of verifying any claims from what one official calls "the most secret and opaque ...
• China warns on U.S. arms package for Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's president welcomed a U.S. decision to sell the island up to $6.5 billion in advanced weaponry, while China warned the move would damage relations between Beijing and Washington. Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei ...
• Taliban said to be furious over U.S. strike
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - The Taliban are furious about the latest apparent U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, indicating a senior militant may be among two dozen people killed, officials and residents said Sunday. The attack Friday on the North ...
• Rice says U.S. not trying to undermine Russia
ASTANA, Kazakhstan - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia. "This is not a zero-sum game ...
• U.S. military under attack in Mosul; 11 die
BAGHDAD - Eleven people, including women and children, were killed Sunday after U.S. forces came under attack by gunfire and a suicide bomber during a raid in Mosul, the military said. There were no casualties among American forces. Elsewhere in the ...