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AP - Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them.

Roadside bombings and gunbattles across Iraq killed nine U.S. servicemen, and U.S. authorities were examining a body found in a river that Iraqi police believe is a U.S. soldier seized in an ambush nearly two weeks ago

The demonstration against the American occupation at Najaf marks the opening of a potentially unique and qualitatively new phase in the Iraqi civil war. The hundreds of thousands who marched carrying Iraqi flags and banners proclaiming an end to occupation express a move away from passive opposition and towards mobilised open hostility against the US

Much of the hype about whether Barack Obama was "black enough" for the African-American community had died down when reports began to surface that the Reverend Al Sharpton had complained about Obama's "blackness." Specifically, the reports alleged, Sharpton was concerned that Obama had never been active in the black community and that his campaign was