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Ukrainian feminists say their country came a long way, legally and culturally, in the past decade. Now advocates are trying to address sexual assault, economic hardship and other effects of the war.

A Czech hobbyist who returned a Colorado veteran's bracelet he found at a former World War II prisoner of war camp finally got to meet the veteran, traveling halfway around the world to do so.

Four others were critically wounded and another person suffered minor injures, officials said.

The popularity of Duranguense music has made the link between Chicago and Durango, Mexico, more visible. But the connection is deeper than most creators and fans of the music know.

The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal is shaking up more than the House leadership. Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) steps down temporarily as chairman of the House Administration Committee after being named in Abramoff's guilty plea agreement. Ney insists he's done nothing wrong, and that he was pushed to quit his chairmanship by Republican leaders trying to limit damage from the Abramoff scandal. While Republican officials are portraying this as a bipartisan scandal, Abramoff is widely seen as the Republicans' problem.

Before the 2006 North American International Auto show opened this past weekend, more then 35,000 industry professionals and members of the media attended "Industry Preview Days." Steve Inskeep talks to Paul Eisenstein, publisher of the internet magazine The Car Connection.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr looks at the disconnect between American policy toward prisoner abuse by Iraqi police and militias, and American policy toward the treatment of prisoners it holds or has captured.

The election of Iraq's first parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein is a big step in the country's attempt to redefine itself. Security analyst Anthony Cordesman says its just a beginning.

Faced with a potential government shutdown, the Senate votes to raise the nation's debt limit for the fourth time in five years, to $9 trillion. That's about $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. The debt now stands at more than $8.2 trillion.

Ivo Daalder, senior fellow of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, talks with Michele Norris about the doctrine of pre-emptive war. Daalder is in Princeton, N.J., where he is attending a conference on the pre-emption doctrine.