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AFP - The threat of sanctions against Sudan will only be lifted when Khartoum makes good on its pledge to allow United Nations peacekeepers into Darfur, the top US diplomat for Africa said Monday.

AP - House Republicans complained bitterly Wednesday that they had been shut out of the secretive process in which Democrats assembled a huge spending bill to sweep clear a budgetary mess they inherited.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won agreement Tuesday from Vladimir Putin to tone down Russian tough talk in an effort to improve strained ties, though neither side gave any ground on major disagreements over missile defense and Kosovo

The fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War dominates the news now; it's an obvious milestone. Less obvious -- but perhaps more telling -- is that, over the weekend, Iraq passed the Civil War as the second longest in our history. Only in Vietnam were Americans in conflict longer -- more than eight