Iraq Sunnis, al Qaeda join opposition.

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CARACAS, Venezuela — State governor Henrique Capriles won Venezuela’s first opposition primary vote by a wide margin on Sunday, emerging as the single candidate who will try to end President Hugo Chavez’s 13 years in power. Read full article > >

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Capriles wins Venezuela’s first opposition primary vote, will challenge Chavez

After initially telegraphing optimism about President Obama’s decision Friday to amend the religious exemption for mandatory birth-control and sterilization coverage, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has declared total opposition to any compromise on the issue. Read full article > >

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Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, one thing is increasingly clear: Boy, do the Republicans miss communism. For Republicans, being anti-communist didn’t merely mean opposition to the Soviets and their ideology. That kind of anti-communism was all but universal in the United States, from the Republican right to the small, democratic socialist left (and encompassing European socialists as well). For the 45 years after World War II, however, anti-communism was also the Republicans’ ultimate wedge issue in U.S. politics. Read full article > >

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Syria’s opposition dismisses assurances that President Assad is committed to ending the violence sweeping the country.

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DAMASCUS, Syria —Russia’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a Syrian commission has prepared a new constitution, to be voted on in a referendum, and added that President Bashar al-Assad is ready for a “dialogue” with opposition groups after months of a harsh and bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters. Read full article > >

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Russia says Assad still wants dialogue; shelling continues as more countries recall ambassadors

Iran invited young activists to Tehran for a conference on the “Islamic Awakening,” but the fact that no one was invited from Syria’s opposition disrupted the whole script.

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Effort to Rebrand Arab Spring Backfires in Iran

ON MAY 29, 2008, D.C. Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) met with representatives of a District business who were pressing their bid for the city’s lottery contract. Allegations have emerged, most recently in a report by D.C. Inspector General Charles J. Willoughby, that the council member offered to drop his opposition to the group’s bid if one of its members would agree to withdraw from a separate real estate deal with Metro, on whose board Mr. Graham sat. As this page reported Wednesday , Mr. Graham flatly denied that he ever made such an offer. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: E-mails renew questions about Jim Graham’s role in lottery contract

One of the raps on Mitt Romney is he’s not a natural. That he seems fake even when he’s rehearsed being real. One confirmation of this awkwardness may be in the way he is approaching his attacks on Newt Gingrich. Unlike Iowa, where he took the more traditional route of letting his super PAC do his dirty work, now he’s doing it, too. And not in the sunny persona of Ronald Reagan, who perfected the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger approach. Instead, it is as if Romney has memorized the opposition research books and is reciting as many attacks as he can fit into a sound bite. (Sound bites are allowed to drag on when they are more negative.) Gingrich is bad on Fannie Mae, bad on health care consulting, ethics, can’t get nominated, can’t win. Bad, bad, bad. Read full article > >

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One of the raps on Mitt Romney is he’s not a natural. That he seems fake even when he’s rehearsed being real. One confirmation of this awkwardness may be in the way he is approaching his attacks on Newt Gingrich. Unlike Iowa, where he took the more traditional route of letting his super PAC do his dirty work, now he’s doing it, too. And not in the sunny persona of Ronald Reagan, who perfected the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger approach. Instead, it is as if Romney has memorized the opposition research books and is reciting as many attacks as he can fit into a sound bite. (Sound bites are allowed to drag on when they are more negative.) Gingrich is bad on Fannie Mae, bad on health care consulting, ethics, can’t get nominated, can’t win. Bad, bad, bad. Read full article > >

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Opposition accuses Saleh of allowing attack.

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The failure of an Arab League mission and a government as defiant as its opposition is in disarray have thrust Syria into what increasingly looks like a protracted and chaotic conflict.

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Syria, in Deep Crisis, May Be Slipping Out of Control

KABUL — One week after President Hamid Karzai demanded that the United States hand over its military prison near Bagram airfield to Afghan officials by month’s end, opposition to the plan has emerged from human rights advocates appointed by Karzai. Read full article > >

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Karzai faces criticism over prison demand

LONDON — For the opposition Labor Party, this should be a shining moment. Under Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, unemployment is up, budget cuts are biting British wallets and the government’s veto of a new European Union economic treaty has left the country Read full article > >

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In Britain, opposition party leader struggles to find voice

Manchester, N.H. — Mitt Romney got virtually everything he needed out of the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. He won a decisive victory that put him in a dominant position to win the Republican presidential nomination, and he will move on to South Carolina with his opposition badly splintered and running out of time to stop him. Read full article > >

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