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WASHINGTON – President Bush urged feuding Iraqi leaders on Monday to stop bickering and forge agreement on key positions in a unity government. The president reminded Iraqis that Americans had made “great sacrifices” and Iraqi voters had risked their lives to promote Iraq’s postwar development. “Americans and Iraqis alike are …

ROME – Challenger Romano Prodi‘s center-left coalition won a narrow victory in the Italian parliamentary election, official results showed Tuesday, but Conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to concede defeat. The Interior Ministry assigned Prodi’s coalition — an unwieldy alliance ranging from Catholics to communists — four Senate seats chosen …

DURHAM, N.C. – The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Saturday his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition would pay the college tuition of a black woman who alleges white members of the Duke University lacrosse team raped her. The 27-year-old woman, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she and another woman were …