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Argentine MPs increase farm taxes

added on 2008-07-05 22:00:10 (BBC News - News Front Page)

Parliament in Argentina approves controversial taxes on agricultural exports, which farmers have vowed to resist. ...more.

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'Fight continues' on abortions

added on 2008-05-21 17:30:10 (BBC News - News Front Page)

Pro-life campaigners have vowed to continue their fight to cut the abortion limit after the next election. ...more.

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Suspect 'vowed lesson for West'

added on 2008-04-14 18:30:14 (BBC News | UK | UK Edition)

The suspected leader of an alleged terror plot promised to teach the west a "lesson they will never forget", a court hears. ...more.

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US House passes surveillance law

added on 2008-03-15 04:30:04 (BBC News - News Front Page)

The House of Representatives in the US passes a wiretap law that President George Bush has vowed to veto. ...more.

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DHS Strains As Goals, Mandates Go Unmet

added on 2008-03-06 09:30:11 (Washington Post - Politics)

Stumping for President Bush's ill-fated immigration overhaul in 2006, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff vowed that his department would wrest "operational control" of the nation's borders away from human and drug traffickers within five years. ...more.

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Obama, Clinton In Key Face-Off

added on 2008-03-04 08:00:11 (Washington Post - Politics)

BEAUMONT, Tex., March 3 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to press on in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after critical primary tests in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, even as advisers to Sen. Barack Obama said the latest round of voting would do little to improve her standing in a... ...more.

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Bush Heads for Africa to Push Peace, Lobby for Expanded Relief Programs

added on 2008-02-15 09:30:12 (Washington Post - Politics)

President Bush vowed yesterday to use a week-long trip to Africa slated to start today to push for peaceful resolutions to conflicts in Kenya and Sudan, but he rebuffed calls to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing to pressure China into using its influence to stop the violence in Sudan's Darfur... ...more.

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Lawmakers, Bush Face Test Over Economy

added on 2008-01-14 10:00:10 (Washington Post - Politics)

After a year of bitter wrangling and partisan gridlock, President Bush and Democratic congressional leaders vowed before the holidays to try to work more closely in the new year. Now, with economic anxiety on the rise and experts warning of recession, the two sides face the first test of that... ...more.

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In a Lifeless Debate, Vows of a Spirited Sprint

added on 2007-12-13 10:30:13 (Washington Post - Politics)

DES MOINES, Dec. 12 -- Despite barely engaging each other in a final, lackluster Republican debate here, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee vowed Wednesday to wage a spirited fight in a presidential contest that has become a test of social conserv... ...more.

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