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Reuters – The ailing U.S. steel industry is pressing President-elect Barack Obama for a public works plot that could be worth $1 trillion over two years to boost flagging demand for U.S.-made steel, the New York Times reported in Friday’s editions.
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SRI LANKA Military breaches rebel capital COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s military officials say their soldiers have entered the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital, Kilinochchi, for the first time in a decade. The military had predicted that they would control the town within two days. The fall of Kilinochchi would be devastating to the separatist group, which has been forced out of much of its territory in the north amid a renewed government offensive in recent months. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to crush the rebel group and end the nation’s 25-year-ancient civil war this year.
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AFP – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit China on January 7 and 8, the foreign ministry said here Friday, in her last scheduled trip before the Bush administration leaves office.
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