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Sweeps precede Musharraf foe’s return

The exiled leader of Pakistan's second-largest opposition party will fly home Sunday afternoon, party officials said, a move that could upset the fragile country's balance before parliamentary elections. Government officials...
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Security surrounds Bhutto’s house

Hundreds of security forces surrounded the home of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Friday morning amid reports that 5,000 members of her party had been arrested in overnight raids....
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Pakistan arrests hundreds

Pakistani police arrested hundreds of lawyers, human-rights activists and opposition politicians Sunday in an apparent bid to ward off protests over President Pervez Musharraf's weekend declaration of a national state...
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Bhutto says Pakistan deal near

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Wednesday that she and President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally in the war on terror, have agreed on "80 percent" of a...
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How Illinois flu vaccine vanished in Pakistan

By fall 2005, Gov. Rod Blagojevich's well-publicized effort to import vaccines to Illinois amid a national flu scare had failed. Stymied by federal regulators who wouldn't allow the unapproved drugs...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama a second time in the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

History of schooling distorted

When Barack Obama was a boy here, he studied for three years at a religious school and prayed four times a day. It was a Roman Catholic school. There, Obama...
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Obama madrassa myth debunked

When Barack Obama was a boy here, he studied for three years at a religious school and prayed four times a day. It was a Roman Catholic school. There, Obama...