Last US troops out of Iraq make it home for Christmas
For Specialist Chancy Cotton, who was among the
first US troops to invade Iraq in 2003 and the last to leave last
weekend, four tours and nine years of fighting were more than
enough. The 31-year-old was among some 200 soldiers with the 1st
Cavalry Division who were given a raucous standing ovation Saturday
at their base in Texas,
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Hard-up German pensioners forced back to work
Germany, as Europe's top economy, may be seen as
the land of plenty but its senior citizens are increasingly being
forced to take a part-time job in their twilight years just to make
ends meet.
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Messages of peace as Christians celebrate Christmas
Tens of thousands of Christians flocked to
Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas as the pope at the Vatican called
for peace, humility and reconciliation. As the faithful crowded the
ancient town where the Bible says Jesus was born, Pope Benedict XVI
on Christmas Eve urged believers to look beyond the “glitter” of the
Christian holiday.
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