Marathon Iraq talks in US Senate
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The US Senate is holding an all-night session as Democrats seek to force the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
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A vote on the Democratic-sponsored  Iraq resolution expected to hit the Senate floor next week will mark the first time Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has embraced a legislative deadline for withdrawing from the war-torn nation, a step she has consistently resisted to this point.
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BAGHDAD - Hours before congressional hearings on the progress of the US military buildup, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki addressed his own parliament yesterday, saying security has improved dramatically in the capital and Iraq is moving away from civil war.
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The US is attending Baghdad talks, along with Iran and Syria, to try to win regional support to stabilise Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- Senator John McCain took his controversial proposal for curbing Iraq's sectarian violence to Baghdad yesterday, calling for an additional 15,000 to 30,000 US troops and joining a congressional delegation in telling Iraq's prime minister he must break his close ties with a radical Shi'ite cleric.
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Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and her band of Senate moderates chatted amiably last weekend as they sat knee to knee in an armored van for a half-hour trip up a desert mountain to meet with Kurdistan President Mustafa Barzani.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Iraq war before the July Fourth recess, a strategy intended to show that Democrats are not giving up on efforts to bring troops home.
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The U.S. Senate continued debating the Iraq war in a rare session that was expected to run into Wednesday, when a showdown vote was set on a Democratic plan to withdraw combat troops by April 2008.
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President George W Bush faces fresh pressure over his Iraq policy as the US Senate debates war funding.
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Senator Charles E. Schumer spent New Yearâs Eve in Baghdad as he made his first visit to the war zone to meet with troops from his home state as well as military commanders.
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WASHINGTON -- With US casualties in Iraq climbing, lawmakers pressed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday about the scope of the insurgency, the training of Iraqi security forces, US troop levels in the fragile state, and an end game for US involvement.
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US Senate Democrats, thwarted in their bid to force a debate on President George W. Bush's planned US troop buildup in Iraq, were expected to step up their pressure on the administration in order to force it to change its strategy in the war.
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The following is a complete transcript of NBC&#39;s &quot;Meet the Press&quot; with Tim Russert, the president of the interim government of Iraq, Ghazi Al-Yawar, and US Senator Harry Reid (D-NV).
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Senate Democrats, facing a filibuster of a long-awaited debate on President Bush's Iraq policy, were scrambling today to bring a resolution of opposition to the Senate floor. But Republican demands for a vote on a simple resolution calling for full funding for U.S. troops in Iraq threatened to...
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Iraq's landmark election planned for January 30 should not be delayed even if all Iraqis are not able to participate, a senior US Senator said.
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Senators discussed the the overhaul of immigration laws on talk shows today after President Bush used his weekly radio address to urge members of both parties to support the bill.
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The US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld talks to US marines in a camp near the Iraqi town of Falluja. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters.