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• Israel's Netanyahu to arrive for 'historic' US mission

  01-03-2015 22:37
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was awaited in Washington on Sunday for a "historic" quest to stop an international nuclear deal with Iran sought by the United States. Netanyahu's controversial 48-hour visit has stoked discord with US President Barack Obama and brought bilateral relations to their lowest point in years. The speech by the Israeli leader aims to drum up last-minute support to halt a possible world deal with Iran over its nuclear program. It has infuriated
  
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• Netanyahu speech to Congress: Low point in US-Israel relationship?

  01-03-2015 22:08
  
  "Politics stops at the water's edge," Senator Arthur Vandenberg famously declared when he chaired the Foreign Relations Committee in the late 1940s – an ideal obviously not always met since those early post-war years. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress this week comes with a heavy dose of politics across global waters in both directions. The invitation to Mr. Netanyahu came from House Speaker John Boehner, who did not consult with President Obama, Secretary
  
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• Netanyahu Heads To US For 'Crucial Mission'

  01-03-2015 20:50
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to the United States where he will argue against a potential international deal over Iran's nuclear programme. Israel's prime minister is due to address Congress on Tuesday in a speech aimed at halting the possible agreement. He said it was an "historic" quest to stop the deal - but the Washington address has caused an uproar, exposing tensions between Israel and its most important ally, America. The speech was set up by congressional Republicans
  
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• John Kerry Doesn't Want Benjamin Netanyahu Visit to Become 'Some Great Political Football'

  01-03-2015 20:08
  
  Kerry echoed frustrations expressed by the White House that House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu was inappropriate. The White House has expressed anger with both the Republican-led House of Representatives and with Netanyahu’s office, not only for excluding them from the invitation process, but also for making the invitation so close to Israel’s elections on March 17 and the final stages of a potential American nuclear weapons deal with Iran. Yet, while departing Israel for
  
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• Can Scott Walker ride union-busting to the White House?

  01-03-2015 18:02
  
  Rand Paul may have won CPAC’s presidential straw poll for the third time in a row Saturday. His young libertarian legions turned out in force, as they had for Sen. Paul’s father, former Rep. Ron Paul. Among the activists at the annual three-day Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) – who generally fall to the enthusiastic right of the Republican spectrum – Gov. Walker came across as the strongest young challenger, not only to Democrats but to mainstream Republicanism. Although
  
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• Split over ‘tactics’ is to blame for DHS funding impasse, House GOP leaders say

  01-03-2015 16:51
  
  Fanning out across Sunday morning's talk shows, the top three House Republican leaders sought to portray Friday's embarrassing defeat of a Department of Homeland Security funding bill as the result of a dispute over the "tactics" of how to combat the president's executive orders on immigration — not as a sign of a more profound divide between conservative and moderate GOP factions.
  
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• Rick Perry questions Hillary Clinton’s ethical judgment

  01-03-2015 16:30
  
  Former Texas governor Rick Perry is raising questions about Hillary Clinton’s ethical judgment after reports that her family’s foundation received millions of dollars from foreign governments during her tenure as secretary of state.
  
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• Israel PM Netanyahu takes off on 'historic' US mission

  01-03-2015 14:21
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to Washington Sunday on what he said was a "historic" mission to try to stop a nuclear deal with Iran, an AFP correspondent reported. The controversial 48-hour visit will see the Israeli leader addressing a joint session of the US Congress in a bid to garner last-minute support to halt an emerging world deal with Iran over its nuclear programme, in a move which has infuriated the White House. "I'm going to Washington on a fatef
  
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• Obama to veto bill letting Congress weigh in on Iran deal

  01-03-2015 02:51
  
  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama would veto a bill recently introduced in the U.S. Senate allowing Congress to weigh in on any deal the United States and other negotiating countries reach with Iran on its nuclear capabilities, the White House said on Saturday. "The president has been clear that now is not the time for Congress to pass additional legislation on Iran.  If this bill is sent to the president, he will veto it," said Bernadette Meehan, a spokes
  
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