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AFP - Nepal's prime minister hailed the start of "national unity and reconciliation" after the United Nations gave its backing to efforts to turn the page on a decade of war with Maoist rebels.

A TIME correspondent recalls his meeting with the late U.N. Secretary General on the defensive about his Wehrmacht past

CQPolitics.com - Jon Bruning, a Republican who serves as Nebraska’s attorney general, is waiting no longer for incumbent Senate Republican Chuck Hagel to make up his mind about 2008. Bruning announced Thursday that he is seeking the GOP nomination for the seat presently held by Hagel, a prominent Republican opponent of President Bush’s Iraq war

U.S. News & World Report - Of the nine U.S. attorneys who were summarily fired last year, one who has raised some of the most troubling questions about partisan politics is David Iglesias, the federal prosecutor in New Mexico. Iglesias, who received a strong performance review and had the solid support of his boss, then