Couric to report from Iraq and Syria
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NEW YORK  - "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric is on her way to Iraq and Syria Wednesday for a 10-day reporting mission that's been a closely guarded secret for several weeks.
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The State Department's second-ranking official is traveling to Syria to talk with officials there about the infiltration of insurgents across the Syrian border into Iraq.
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Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan  will urge the United States to take concrete action to crack  down on Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq, newspapers said on Sunday,  as a unilateral rebel ceasefire went into effect.
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US network CBS is hoping to revive struggling news ratings with the debut of presenter Katie Couric.
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The United States and their adversaries in Iran and Syria may for the first time since the Iraq war began meet face to face at a conference next month to discuss the situation in Iraq.
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U.S. Senator Bill Nelson met Syrian  President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday, a week after a U.S.  bipartisan panel recommended the Bush administration engage  Syria to help stabilize Iraq.
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U.S. President George W. Bush will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Jordan next week with grim new statistics showing record numbers of Iraqis were killed last month and many more fled the country.
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NEW YORK  - Katie Couric's one-year anniversary as anchor of "CBS Evening News" finds her in Iraq and Syria reporting from the front lines and not answering questions about how poorly the newscast has been doing in the ratings since she started.
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Katie Couric, who is scheduled to take over the anchor seat next week, will handle a segment honoring Bob Schieffer tonight.
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President Bush is to discuss the situation in Iraq with its Prime Minister Nouri Maliki in Jordan next week.
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Iraq will shut its borders with Iran and Syria for 72 hours and extend the hours of a nightly curfew in Baghdad as part of a U.S.- backed plan to rein in unrelenting violence, an official said on Tuesday.
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Sen. John Kerry, whose botched joke about U.S. troops in Iraq dealt a blow to his presidential ambitions, will travel to Iraq this weekend to meet with soldiers, political leaders and military officials.
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Envoys from the West and Islamic nations &#151; including Iran, Syria and the United States &#151; are expected to attend a conference next month on efforts to stabilize Iraq, a diplomatic adviser said Tuesday.
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A bipartisan panel recommended to President George W. Bush on Wednesday that the United States directly engage with Syria and Iran to help resolve the Iraq conflict, the White House said.
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The Iraq Study Group's long-awaited report on how the U.S. should overhaul its effort in Iraq will be released online on Wednesday, with members of the panel expected to testify on Capitol Hill the following day.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 3 (IPS) - U.S.-appointed Iraqi president Ghazi al-Yawar  begins a visit to Europe this week  amidst uncertainty over the  future of Iraq.
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The Iraq Study Group this week will advise President Bush to begin the biggest foreign policy course correction of his presidency. The group will call for rekindling peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis and holding an international conference that would lead to direct talks with Iran and Syria. Will Bush listen, or will stubbornness prevail?