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AP - Two weeks before U.S. midterm elections, American officials unveiled a timeline Tuesday for Iraq's Shiite-led government to take specific steps to calm the world's most dangerous capital and said more U.S. troops might be needed to quell the bloodshed.

AP - As of Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006, at least 2,801 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,242 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

AP - The U.S. military and political chiefs in Baghdad were the latest top government officials to hint that the United States may shift course in the unpopular Iraq war, but if any real changes are afoot in Bush administration policy in Iraq, they are hard to discern.

AP - President Bush's political top gun Karl Rove gushes with optimism about Election Day. National security adviser Stephen Hadley says the Iraqis need to do more to secure their nation — and do it faster. Presidential confidant Dan Bartlett takes a few verbal punches at Democrats.

AP - The U.S. military would prevail in a war against North Korea but at a greater cost in lives than if the United States were not already fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.

AFP - The top US general acknowledged that US commanders have had to redo their timelines for handing over security to Iraqi security forces amid rising violence.

AFP - The top US general acknowledged that US commanders have had to redo their timelines for handing over security to Iraqi security forces amid rising violence.

AFP - The brother of an American football player who was killed as a soldier in Afghanistan and hailed as a hero for giving up his athletic career to fight the "war on terror" has lashed out at President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

AFP - The brother of an American football player who was killed as a soldier in Afghanistan and hailed as a hero for giving up his athletic career to fight the "war on terror" has lashed out at President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

Reuters - Words have never been a strong point for President Bush, who has even joked about his habit of mangling the English language.

AFP - The brother of an American football player who was killed as a soldier in Afghanistan and hailed as a hero for giving up his athletic career to fight the "war on terror" has lashed out at President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

AFP - The brother of an American football player who was killed as a soldier in Afghanistan and hailed as a hero for giving up his athletic career to fight the "war on terror" has lashed out at President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.

Reuters - The United States has the capacity to defeat any enemy with overwhelming power, despite the Iraq war, but a new conflict would involve more brute force and civilian casualties, the top U.S. general said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The British military hoped to withdraw troops from Iraq within about a year and London wanted to focus on the war in Afghanistan, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.

AP - President Bush's political top gun Karl Rove gushes with optimism about Election Day. National security adviser Stephen Hadley says the Iraqis need to do more to secure their nation — and do it faster. Presidential confidant Dan Bartlett takes a few verbal punches at Democrats.

AFP - US President George W. Bush said US forces would stay in Iraq as long as needed to win and conjured up an apocalyptic future he tied to a premature exit from the war-torn country.

AP - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called for an end to the bloody sectarian conflict tearing apart neighboring Iraq.