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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | FRI 25 Dec 2009 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | December 24, 2009 06:44 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare overhaul on Thursday, backing sweeping changes in the medical insurance market and new coverage for tens of millions of uninsured Americans.
| | | | December 25, 2009 08:48 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban on Friday issued a new video tape of a U.S. soldier captured this summer, which was condemned by the U.S. military as propaganda, and the decision to release it on Christmas day as cruel.
| | | | December 24, 2009 02:16 PM ET
 | CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is being treated for high blood pressure and dizziness, and was not hurt by another prisoner, a Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman said on Thursday.
| | | | | December 24, 2009 02:59 PM ET
 | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces clashed with supporters of dead dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Thursday, a reformist website said.
| | | | December 25, 2009 07:21 AM ET
 | VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on the world to abandon violence and vengeance on Friday and showed no sign of strain after an "unstable" woman lunged at him, forcing him to the ground, on Christmas Eve.
| | | | December 25, 2009 02:44 AM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday defended the role played by premier Wen Jiabao at climate change talks in Copenhagen this month after a barrage of international criticism blaming China for obstructing negotiations.
| | | | | December 24, 2009 09:20 PM ET
 | BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of pilgrims and dignitaries crowded into Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity for a Christmas Mass, where Latin Patriarch Fuad al-Tuwal urged visitors to return home bearing a message of peace for the Holy Land.
| | | | | December 24, 2009 12:19 PM ET
 | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq will scrap a policy early next year that has led to the punishment of some soldiers serving in Iraq for becoming pregnant, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday.
| | | | | December 24, 2009 07:30 PM ET
 | ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle arrived back in the United States on Thursday after being reunited in Brazil with his American father at the end of a five-year dispute that tested bilateral ties.
| | | | | December 24, 2009 02:22 PM ET
 | KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed eight Afghan civilians on Thursday when he detonated his explosives outside a guest house frequented by foreigners in southern Kandahar city, a police official said.
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Senate approves landmark healthcare overhaul
