BAGHDAD, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Eyed with suspicion by the state but credited with dealing al Qaeda a heavy blow, Iraq’s largely Sunni Arab neighbourhood guards cautiously welcomed their transfer from U.S. to government control on Wednesday.
[News - Al Qaeda]
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October 1
White House backs revised bailout billWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House expressed hope on Wednesday the Senate would pass a revised $700 billion financial rescue package in the evening, after the House of Representatives voted down a bailout measure earlier this week.
[Reuters - Politics News]
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The first group of European Union cease-fire monitors has entered the buffer zone around Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, a Reuters reporter traveling with the patrol has reported.
[Radio Free Europe]
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