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German minister plans first postwar visit to Iraq
AP - Germany says it plans to send a government minister to Iraq early next year — the first since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Last Polish communist party chairman Rakowski dies
AP - Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Poland's last communist-era party chairman and prime minister, has died, Polish media and officials said Saturday. He was 81.
Obama transition chief: Bush orders under review
AP - President-elect Obama's transition chief says the incoming administration is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on stem cell research, oil and gas drilling, and other matters.
Young voters have some clout, and they used it
AP - They missed classes, skipped sleep and parties. Thousands spent countless hours instead knocking on doors to make a case for Barack Obama, the man who would be elected the next president of the United States. And many more young Obama supporters stood in line for hours to vote, some for the first time.
How will military greet Obama?
Politico - Barack Obama will enter the White House without any military experience and with a playbook that emphasizes diplomacy, behind a president who waged two wars and presided over some of the largest-ever defense budget increases.
So much else happened while people eyed election
AP - While you were fixated on the election campaign and on the collapsing economy and your vanishing retirement investments, stuff happened.
Thousands in Germany protest nuclear transport
AP - Almost 15,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators protested Saturday against a shipment of reprocessed nuclear waste being transported to a storage site in northern Germany, police said.
Obama steering clear of Dems battle over Lieberman
AP - President-elect Obama is avoiding the issue of whether Sen. Joe Lieberman should remain chairman of an important committee.
Obama will stick to middle-class tax cut
Politico - A middle-class tax cut will be one of President-elect Obama’s first proposals after he takes the oath of office, incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday.
Spain rejects asylum appeal from bin Laden's son
AP - Spain has rejected a final appeal for asylum by a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and put him on a plane bound for Egypt, the Interior Ministry and a lawyer for the man said Saturday.
Obama puts hope on hold in days of transition
AP - President-elect Obama is putting hope on hold.
Sunday shows talk transition
Politico - Obama, more Bush than Clinton
Let the campaign for 2012 begin
AP - Let the 2012 presidential race begin — or at least the speculation about it.
Obama gains in fast-growing counties
Politico - The broad sweep of Barack Obama’s victory included significant gains in some of the unlikeliest places — the nation's fastest-growing counties.
South Ossetian forces occupy Georgian village: Tbilisi
Reuters - Georgia accused South Ossetian security forces of occupying a Georgian village outside the borders of the breakaway territory on Sunday, drawing warnings from EU officials monitoring a ceasefire.
Senate Leader Reid Looks at Joe Lieberman, Sees Glass Half Full
Bloomberg - Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said
that while Senator Joe Lieberman was wrong to campaign for the
Republican presidential ticket, Democrats who want him stripped
of his chairmanship should remember that he gave their party
control of the Senate.
Wanted: a leader for battered Republicans
AFP - The US Republican Party, once dominant now in disarray, is beginning the search for a leader to chart a course out of the wilderness after the presidential and congressional elections disaster.
Dem groups claim Obama win
Politico - John F. Kennedy famously said that 'victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan,' an adage born out over the last three days as reporters' inboxes have overflowed with e-mails from advocacy groups boasting of their role in Tuesday's sweeping Democratic win.
US, EU officials meet with Arabs on Iran
AP - Senior U.S. and European officials met with several Arab leaders Sunday who are worried about the international community negotiating a deal with Iran that would give the Islamic Republic more power in the Middle East, said a U.S. official and a meeting participant.
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