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Reuters - The United States would spend more to combat illegal immigration and prepare for terrorist and weather-related disasters under legislation approved on Tuesday by a House of Representatives panel that ignores a White House veto threat.

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Reuters - Poor nations must urgently plan sustainable growth for fast-growing cities, said the United Nations on Tuesday, as hundreds of delegates gathered to discuss urbanization in Nairobi, home to some of Africa's worst slums.

Reuters - Democrats on Wednesday failed to override President George W. Bush's veto of Iraq war funding legislation that would force a troop pullout timetable, prompting the start of tense negotiations on a compromise.