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Lithuania opens new inquiry into CIA prisons
VILNIUS, LITHUANIA -- Twice in the past three years, the Lithuanian Parliament investigated reports that the CIA secretly imprisoned al-Qaeda leaders in this Baltic country. Both times, legislators concluded that there was no evidence.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai sworn in for second term
KABUL -- President Hamid Karzai set two ambitious goals in his inauguration speech Thursday: to have Afghan soldiers and police take full responsibility for security within the next five years and to root out the pervasive corruption that hobbled his first administration.
For a nation with doubts on war, Afghanistan strategy is a conundrum
WINONA, Minn. -- Christina and Jesse Fladmark were married on Flag Day last year at a band shell on the Mississippi River. They chose the spot largely because Jesse, a soldier, draws strength from the nearby war memorial.
Indian officials wary after perceived White House slights
Days before India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to be welcomed in the White House for his first state visit with President Obama, two perceived missteps by the Obama administration have concerned Indian officials that New Dehli suddenly has been relegated to the second tier of U.S.-Asian rel...
18,000 miles to Washington
Paulo Roberto Vieira stumbled into the Brazilian consulate on L Street NW bedraggled, nearly broke and at the end of his rope.
U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday for a dinner meeting, they had little indication of what Afghan President Hamid Karzai planned to discuss, or whether questions about corruption and governance...
Nation Digest: FEC eases restrictions on candidates' luxury jets
The Federal Election Commission on Thursday eased restrictions on the use of luxury jets by many candidates for federal office, ruling that Senate and presidential candidates can pay discounted prices for private air travel as long as they do not do so on behalf of their own campaign.
DIGEST
Reports emerged Thursday that former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) has decided against a run for governor in 2010 and instead plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat occupied by Kirsten Gillibrand (D). But a spokeswoman for Giuliani said in a statement that no decision has been made...
World Digest: Separate blasts kill 21 in Pakistani city of Peshawar
PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
North Korea is among topics of discussion as Obama wraps up Asia tour in Seoul
SEOUL -- With none of the tension presented by a rising China and a willful Japan, President Obama's visit to South Korea on Thursday was short, congenial in substance and splendid in form.
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