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Reuters - A former U.N. procurement official on trail for helping secure contracts for a friend in exchange for kickbacks is the victim of a "witch hunt" to clean up bad public relations the world body has suffered in past years, his defense lawyer argued on Tuesday.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is shaking up France's election season, thanks to some surprising new supporters

Reuters - Drug safety measures pending in the House of Representatives may burden regulators without protecting patients from dangerous medicines, a senior Food and Drug Administration official told lawmakers on Tuesday.

CQPolitics.com - If Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin was speaking for most Democratic leaders on ABC's "This Week" yesterday, President Bush will win his showdown with Congress over funding the Iraq War without an exit deadline.