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Russian media delight in U.S. spy case as leaders try to limit fallout
ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state-run media revelled on Wednesday in embarrassing the United States over a botched attempt to recruit one of its intelligence agents but both countries signaled they wanted to prevent the episode harming efforts to improve...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Anna Chapman, Espionage and Intelligence, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Russia unites with America in grief
Sun Foreign StaffKOROLYOV, Russia - Some appeared red-eyed and anguished, others stoic and somber. They spoke different languages and saluted different flags. But the Russian and American space explorers who gathered at Russia's Mission Control Center here yesterday were...Tags: Family, White House, Rocketry, NASA, Disasters
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Columbia's legacy will be seen in space program, Cheney says
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - As a hazy sun lighted the National Cathedral's stained-glass windows, including one that depicts man's first mission to the moon, Vice President Dick Cheney told hundreds of mourning NASA employees yesterday that their strength and skill...Tags: Patti LaBelle, Family, Texas, Israel, NASA
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Fatah militants accept Israeli clemency deal
Times Staff WriterJERUSALEM — Scores of battle-hardened Palestinians signed pledges to renounce violence against Israel and turned in their weapons Sunday, accepting the Israeli government's first collective offer of clemency in 14 years for gunmen listed as wanted...Tags: Palestine, Lobbying, Terrorism, Mahmoud Abbas, Judaism
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A sensible caution, poorly stated
WASHINGTON -- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for...Tags: Weaponry, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan
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Column: President's caution sensible, but poorly stated
WASHINGTON — People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and President Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign...Tags: Weaponry, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989), Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan
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Diplomat killed in Afghanistan 'had a great worldview'
Tribune reportersAs strangers lined up for white ribbons and American flags to show their support, family and friends of Anne Smedinghoff mourned the loss of a young diplomat who was determined to see the world — and possibly beyond. Her brother, Mark, recalled...Tags: Afghanistan, Family, Television Industry, Politics, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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U.N. passes treaty regulating arms sales
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the world body's first treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade Tuesday, a goal sought for over a decade to try to keep illicit weapons out of the hands...
Tags: Weaponry, European Union, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Organized Crime
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Richard Morefield dies at 81; diplomat was seized in Iran hostage crisis
Richard Morefield, a former career diplomat who was the U.S. consul general in Tehran in 1979 when the American Embassy was seized by Iranian militants and he and 51 other Americans were held hostage for 444 days, has died. He was 81.
Morefield, a...Tags: U.S. Army, Family, West Point, Colleges and Universities, Iran
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A proxy vote on Obama?
To Eric, from Dennis: Those are some awful ads that both Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk are airing in their campaigns to fill Roland Burris' Senate seat. Simple-minded, mendacious, nerve-racking. Nothing so bad, mind you, as the...Tags: Laws, Family, Human Interest, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Obama defends policy comments
Tribune staff reporterSen. Barack Obama on Thursday sought to reframe and defend some of his recent controversial foreign policy statements, including those that have triggered suggestions that he lacks the experience to be president. "My sense is that some of the reports...Tags: Pakistan, Armed Conflicts, Family, White House, Iowa
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Barack Obama retakes oath—and then proceeds to govern
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — In his first full day in the White House, Barack Obama pushed his top military advisers for a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq, and in an extraordinary exercise took the oath of office a second time over concern about a miscue...Tags: White House, Religious Conflicts, Lobbying, Israel, Julian Barnes
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