Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Morning News Roundup

Here's the top of the news and some stories of interest from the American and world press. I went light on the campaign coverage, since I don't think you'll have much difficulty finding that elsewhere:

• Pentagon provides detail on naval incident with Iranian fastboats in the Strait of Hormuz. (NY Times)
• Possible shakeups in Clinton campaign if she loses NH. (NY Times)
• Baltimore sues Wells Fargo over racially discriminatory loan practices that lead to foreclosures. (NY Times)
  
• US empowers new generation of Sunni leaders in Iraq. (WaPo)
• Ahmadinejad loses favor with Khamenei. (IHT)
• Private security contractors turn to Africa for recruits. (CSMonitor)
• ElBaradei to visit Iran this week. (People's Daily Online)
  
• Afghan government appoints former Taliban commander as district chief. (People's Daily Online)
• China has contingency plans to secure N. Korea nuclear arsenal in event of instability. (Times of India)
• Kosovo parties form coalition government. (ITAR-TASS)
  

As usual I'll be adding new items to the sidebar news wire over the course of the day. Think of it as the non-Drudge Report.

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