Myanmar opens junta-dominated parliament (AFP)
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AFP - Myanmar's new junta-dominated parliament opened on Monday as lawmakers assembled in secrecy following a widely panned election for the country's first legislative session since the late 1980s. Read Full Story
Egyptian disappointment with U.S. likely to increase
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On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama stood before a large and enthusiastic audience at Cairo University to deliver a much-anticipated speech on mending U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Read Full Story
Axelrod on way out: `We’ve learned some lessons’ (AP)
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David Axelrod, outgoing senior adviser to President Barack Obama, is interviewed by the Associated Press in his West Wing Office at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Since early December, what's happened in the White House amounts to a presidential rediscovery in the eyes of Axelrod. He considers the last two months a template for the next two years and a re-election campaign in which, he promises, Obama will try to 'play big' all over the electoral map and reassemble a weakened coalition. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
AP - David Axelrod, protector of President Barack Obama's message, picked the right day to show up at a news conference. His boss wasn't just going off script. He was going off. Read Full Story
Clinton vows to pressure Haiti on election, but not cut off aid
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On her way to Haiti, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that the United States wouldn't cut aid to the economically and politically unsettled Caribbean nation -- despite major concerns about its recent and upcoming presidential elections. Read Full Story
Candidates predict victory in Mexico gov’s race (AP)
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AP - Both candidates for governor of the cartel-plagued state of Guerrero declared themselves winners Sunday evening as polls closed in an election shadowed by corruption scandals, political violence and the drug war. Read Full Story
Clinton presses OAS solution to Haiti impasse (Reuters)
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Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Haiti's leaders on Sunday to adopt an internationally backed solution to untangle an election dispute, saying the poor, earthquake-battered country needed a stable government to rebuild. Read Full Story
The President regains some momentum ahead of 2012 campaign (Intrade)
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Intrade - President Obama has enjoyed a good couple of months. After the Democrats took what he described as a "shellacking" at the polls in November's midterms, the President has overseen a largely successful (and civil) lame-duck session of Congress, responded sensitively to the shootings in Tucson, Arizona and given an optimistic state of the union speech. Read Full Story
Clinton: US has no plans to suspend aid to Haiti (AP)
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AP - The United States has no plans to halt aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti in spite of a crisis over who will be the nation's next leader but does insist that the president's chosen successor be dropped from the race, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday. Read Full Story
Obama calls foreign leaders about Egypt situation (AP)
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AP - President Barack Obama has been calling foreign leaders this weekend to spread word of the U.S. administration's desire for restraint and an orderly transition to a more responsive government in Egypt. Read Full Story
Clinton: Egypt must transition to democracy (AP)
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AP - The U.S. appealed for an orderly transition to lasting democracy in Egypt even as escalating violence in the American ally threatened Mideast stability and put President Barack Obama in a diplomatic bind. Read Full Story

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