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  US vice-president in Iraq to visit troops and meet prime minister The Canadian Press - 45 minutes ago

  BAGHDAD - U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Thursday to visit U.S. soldiers, just two days after all American combat troops withdrew from Baghdad and all of Iraq's cities and towns.

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  US gov's wife says she may be able to forgive affair The Canadian Press - 52 minutes ago

  COLUMBIA, South Carolina - South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she may be able to forgive her husband's much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman, but true reconciliation will take more time.

• Justice Department delays release of report on CIA detention, interrogation until late August The Canadian Press - 53 minutes ago

  WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public.

• Police say bus crash kills 23 in head-on collision near Lake Titicaca in Peru The Canadian Press - 54 minutes ago

  LIMA, Peru - Two buses crashed head-on Thursday on a mountainous road near Lake Titicaca in Peru, killing at least 23 people and injuring 50 more, police said.

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  Penthouse where Madoff and wife lived seized by US marshals, could be sold The Canadian Press - 55 minutes ago

  NEW YORK - Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's US$7-million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.

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