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Roger Federer's grand slam winning streak finally came to an end. The wife of a Fairfax county school administrator left a message on the answering machine of a student who called her husband at home...and it is all the rage on YouTube.
Top Stories >>The five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany have agreed on a draft resolution enacting a new round of sanctions against Iran -- including a new restriction on those exporting to Iran and a stricter ban on travel for Iranian nuclear scientists. It is unlikely that the resolution will be introduced in the Council until next month, at which time Iran has agreed to the IAEA to answer remaining questions on its nuclear program.>>Brazil announced yesterday that the rate of Amazon rainforest destruction increased roughly 400 percent from August to December 2007. President Lula da Silva has vowed a 25 percent increase in the region's police force.
>>U.S. Secretary of Defense Gates said that the U.S. was prepared to send troops to assist Pakistan in fighting militants. Meanwhile, police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have killed a top commander of the pro-Pakistani Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami militant group, who was the mastermind of three bombings in Uttar Pradesh last November.>>The EU member states' foreign ministers are expected to agree to a 1,800-person stabilization force for Kosovo on Monday, under the expectation that it will soon declare independence from Serbia. Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has said that it is only a matter of days.
>>Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi has resigned after losing a vote of confidence in the Senate. President Giorgio Napolitano is holding emergency meetings with political leaders in an effort to avoid snap elections.
>>Amid continuing violence, warring Kenyan political leaders met for the first time face to face, along with Kofi Annan, who is facilitating the negotiations. Even the most optimistic analysts agree that this is at best the first step in a long process.
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