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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - Jan. 6
06 Jan 2007 05:00:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Jan. 6. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared yesterday that "it is time to bring the war to a close" and warned President Bush that sending more troops to Iraq would be unacceptable to the Democratic majorities that have just taken over Congress.

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U.S. Marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq, according to eyewitness accounts that are part of a lengthy investigative report obtained by the Washington Post.

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MOGADISHU, Somalia - The revived Somali national army assembled here Friday in the sand-blown yard of the former parliament, a hollowed-out building splashed with grenade blasts and scrawled with apocalyptic graffiti.

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A Texas company has started producing batches of ready-made embryos that single women and infertile couples can order after reviewing detailed information about the race, education, appearance, personality and other characteristics of the egg and sperm donors.

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Sixty miles outside Buenos Aires construction crews soon will be swarming over a partially built concrete dome abandoned 12 years ago, resuming work on Argentina's long-delayed Atucha II nuclear power plant. They will be in the vanguard of surging interest in nuclear power worldwide.

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The obesity epidemic has spread to man's best friend, and so many dogs are getting fat that the government stepped in yesterday by approving the first doggie diet pill.

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