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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — For the second time in a week, Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman’s camp is labeling him the winner in Minnesota’s far-from-over Senate race.
Coleman leads Democratic challenger Al Franken by just 206 votes as the first round of tallying comes to a close Monday evening.
“Sen. Coleman remains the winner in this election [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — For the second time in a week, Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman’s camp is labeling him the winner in Minnesota’s far-from-over Senate race.
Coleman leads Democratic challenger Al Franken by just 206 votes as the first round of tallying comes to a close Monday evening.
“Sen. Coleman remains the winner in this election [...]

The US military has made several undisclosed attacks against Al-Qaida in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere under a secret order signed by the former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2004, according to the New York Times today.

It claims the order gave the US military broad authority to attack al-Qaida anywhere in the world, including countries not at war with the US.

Last month’s raid on Syria, in which eight people were killed, was cited as an example. The attack, which enraged the Syrians, was described as the first by the US on Syrian soil for years. But the New York Times claims there have been others raids into Syria under the so-called “Al Qaida Network Exord”, or executive order, as well as attacks in Pakistan.

The story, sourced to more than six unnamed officials, appears to back claims made by a former Bush administration official to Jonathan Freedland, who also said the US has made several raids on Syria, but Damascus has just kept quiet about it.

According to the New York Times, Rumsfeld’s order streamlined the approval process for such missions to take place. (But up to 12 raids were still vetoed by senior officials.)

Perhaps the order itself will be vetoed by Barack Obama under his bid to “unpick the most egregious acts of the Bush administration“. But given that, as Jonathan Steele wrote, Obama has refused to repudiate the so-called war on terror, maybe not.

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Row at holy shrine in Jerusalem sees police having to break up mass brawl between two sets of Christian monks

President Bush and Laura Bush welcome Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House on Monday.

(CNN) – President Bush and first lady Laura Bush welcomed President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, to the White House on Monday afternoon.
Bush and Obama held a private meeting in the Oval Office, while the first lady gave [...]