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The latest news on Election Polling, Tax Cuts, Immigration, Mine Safety, Financial Reform, Climate Change, NATO Fuels Convoys Attacked, Afghanistan, Mideast Peace Talks, Iraq, Recycling in Cairo, Haiti, Brazil Election, British Budget Cuts, and Select Op-

Drones Kill Germans. A suspected US drone strike has killed eight fighters in northwest Pakistan, with Pakistani intelligence officials saying that at least five of them were Germans.

Transportation System Failing. The United States is saddled with a rapidly decaying and woefully underfunded transportation system that will undermine its status in the global economy unless Congress and the public embrace innovative reforms, a bipartisan panel of experts concludes in a report released Monday.

Haiti. Increasingly, property owners here are seeking to dislodge tent camps, saying they are tired of waiting for the government to resettle the people or for the people to resettle themselves.

Quote of the day. "When you're in Taybeh, you understand God's sense of humor." Maria Khoury, organizer of an Oktoberfest celebration in Taybeh, West Bank, to promote Palestinian culture and commerce amid the Israeli occupation and to draw attention to the Palestinian Christian minority (Los Angeles Times)

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