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AP - The Security Council and the U.N. secretary-general commended Ivory Coast's president and rebel leader Wednesday for their efforts to end a 4 1/2-year conflict and offered help to support the implementation of a March 4 peace plan.

CQPolitics.com - The following article by CQPolitics.com’s Marc Rehmann profiles one of the surprise winners who helped boost the Democrats to a House majority in the current 110th Congress: John Hall, who took 51 percent of the vote to unseat six-term Republican Rep. Sue W. Kelly by 2.4 percentage points in New York’s 19th District.

Like the Iranians, the Kurds celebrate Noruz, the Zoroastrian new year. But the Kurds give it a nationalist tinge

Reuters - Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives expressed "deep concern" about the direction of free trade talks with South Korea in a letter to the Bush administration released on Thursday as U.S. negotiators were in Seoul trying to wrap up a deal.