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AP - The House Republican leader said Sunday that GOP support could waver if President Bush's Iraq war policy does not succeed by the fall.

Kirkuk and the Kurdish borderlands - Iraq's "Bosnia."The Kurdish autonomous north has long been held out as an example of peace and security for the rest of Iraq. Today, however, it threatens to become a source of its greatest instability and an issue, which might tear Iraq apart. In particular, the question of the status

A bomb ripped through a historic mosque as Friday prayers were ending in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, killing at least five people

AFP - Thailand is to deport 152 people of the Hmong minority back to Laos even though most of them are recognized as refugees by the United Nations, Laos officials and Amnesty International has said.