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Obama's $3.8 trillion budget sets up election-year fight with Republicans

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to students about his 2013 budget at the Northern Virginia Community College February 13, 2012 in Annandale, Virginia

It has become a United States ritual more predictable than the date of the next presidential election. Barack Obama proposes a budget — and Republicans in Congress declare it dead on arrival.

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Greek austerity vote wins praise amid flames

Greece is taking a key first step towards averting bankruptcy and securing a second bailout after lawmakers approved radical budget cuts despite street battles in pre-election Athens.

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Israel blames Iran for magnetic-bomb attacks

Israeli officials blame Iran for nearly simultaneous attempts to bomb Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia in what some analysts suggested may be Iranian retaliation for a series of attacks on its nuclear program that have been widely blamed on Israel.

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Obama's $3.8 trillion budget sets up election-year fight with Republicans

It has become a United States ritual more predictable than the date of the next ...

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Greek austerity vote wins praise amid flames

Greece is taking a key first step towards averting bankruptcy and securing a second...

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Israel blames Iran for magnetic-bomb attacks

Israeli officials blame Iran for nearly simultaneous attempts to bomb Israeli diplomats...

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Fisher: Australia's constitution permits discrimination, marginalizes Aborigines

Not everyone who lives in Australia's Outback is getting a slice of the unprecedented...

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Fisher: Australia's constitution permits discrimination, marginalizes Aborigines

Not everyone who lives in Australia's Outback is getting a slice of the unprecedented bounty being created by massive deals to sell natural resources to Asia.

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Whitney Houston performs at Mediolanum Forum

Whitney Houston was found underwater, unconscious: police

Pop star Whitney Houston was "underwater and apparently unconscious" when she was discovered in a Beverly Hills hotel room bathtub, police said on Monday, as her body was reported to be heading home to New Jersey.

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Egypt accuses U.S. of using NGOs to thwart revolution

Only days after a visit by the Pentagon's top general to smooth testy relations with Egypt's military rulers, the state news service on Monday released a months-old report that accuses the Obama administration of funneling cash to pro-democracy groups in Cairo after it was caught off guard by the uprising last year against longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak.

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Green groups fight new bill tied to 'zombie' Keystone pipeline

A plan by U.S. Republicans to tie approval of the Keystone XL pipeline to passage of a highway funding bill has sent American environmentalists scrambling — again — to try and derail the proposal.

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Xi Jinping, China leader-in-waiting, on key U.S. visit

China's Vice President Xi Jinping is starting a week-long tour of the United States in a key test of relations with the man on course to lead the rising Asian power for the next decade.

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