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WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key administration posts:
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GENEVA - He's one of the titans of 20th Century architecture, but Le Corbusier is suddenly feeling the weight of history working against him.
GENEVA - The United Nations has toned down a report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period but left intact the suggestion that Rwanda's army may have committed genocide there in the 1990s.
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GENEVA - Swiss women for the first time captured most of the seats in the country's seven-member executive branch Wednesday, brushing aside Switzerland's history as one of Europe's last nations to grant women full suffrage.
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