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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrats Sunday girded for the next battle to push the most sweeping US health care overhaul in a half-century through Congress, after handing President Barack Obama victory in a narrow House vote. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for the first time since US efforts to restart Middle East peace talks stalled, a White House official said. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqi MPs Sunday on approving a new law to govern 2010 general elections, saying it was an important step towards ensuring a lasting peace. Full Story »

FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - Investigators probing the massacre of 13 people at a Texas army base were Sunday trying to piece together the motive behind the shooting believed to be the act of a lone army gunman. Full Story »

BERLIN (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday used the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall as a rallying cry for a reinvigorated US-European push to free those oppressed by religious extremism. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas' Fort Hood military base was an act of "Islamist extremism." Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A top US army officer said on Sunday he did not have confidence in a hand-held device used by Iraq's security forces to detect explosives and stop suicide bombers passing through checkpoints. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Barack Obama this week heads to Asia for the first time as president, seeking to show the region and a rising China the United States is not in decline nor distracted by multiple crises elsewhere. Full Story »

KABUL (AFP) - With Hamid Karzai confirmed as Afghan president for another five years, the pressure is on Barack Obama to declare his plans for winning a war which commanders say is in danger of being lost. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Supreme Court will Monday wrestle with the merits of convicting juveniles who have not committed murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole -- a fate shared by 109 US prisoners, almost all of whom are non-white. Full Story »