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Efforts to scale back the U.S. detention center at the Bagram military base are failing while conditions at the facility have drawn a strong complaint from the Red Cross.
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After suffering a pounding in a weekend debate, Mitt Romney struck back with a vengeance at his main rivals, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, at a Fox News forum.
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Over the past few days, tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenya's president, have fled the western part of the country because of ethnic violence.
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