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A tribesman walks through the rubble of a home damaged by artillery fire in Sanaa, Yemen.

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U.S. says Yemen's Saleh should step aside 'immediately'

The Obama administration, anxious to deny al Qaida's most dangerous offshoot more space in which to flourish, urged Yemen's wounded president on Monday to immediately step aside and clear the way for a transfer of power aimed at averting all-out civil war. » read more

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Iraq's Chalabi takes on Bahrain, loses first round

The mission sounded improbable: Could a high-profile Iraqi politician draw attention to Bahrain's crackdown on its Shiite Muslim majority by sailing a cargo ship loaded with Iraqi doctors, nurses and medicine into the unfriendly waters of the small Persian Gulf kingdom? » read more

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Commentary: Obama and immigration

Andres Oppenheimer: There is nothing astonishing about President Barack Obama's Republican critics claiming that he is taking U.S. Hispanics for a ride on immigration issues. What's surprising is that some of Obama's closest Democratic allies are beginning to say the same thing.

Special report: Chimp research

Chimpanzees at a federal primate facility are at the center of an impassioned debate between the National Institutes of Health and the animal-rights community.

Special report: Military Injustice

A McClatchy probe reveals mistakes by an analyst at the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Lab, near Atlanta, undermined hundreds of criminal cases.

Special report: Afghan contracts

The U.S. program to spend billions of dollars on Afghanistan's facilities is failing. Corruption, nepotism and mismanagement hobble the reconstruction.

Afghanistan and Pakistan

Read McClatchy coverage of Afghanistan and South Asia from correspondents in Kabul and Islamabad, as well as our national security team in Washington.

More on Camp Lejeune water

Scientists studying water contamination at Camp Lejeune have learned of another source of leaking fuel near a drinking well that served thousands of Marines and their families.

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Sarah Palin's emails to be released by Alaska on Friday

The state of Alaska on Monday announced the time and place for release of 24,199 pages of Sarah Palin's emails as Friday morning in Juneau. The long-delayed release will be available to media organizations and others paying for paper copies. But Juneau Sen. Dennis Egan is pushing for the state to also ship public review copies to Anchorage and Fairbanks. » read more

Israel prepares for more violence in Golan Heights village

Syria and Israel traded accusations Monday over the death toll in Sunday's shootings along the border here as Israeli troops prepared for what pro-Palestinian demonstrators were promising would be another attempt to storm across the border Tuesday. » read more

Austan Goolsbee to leave Obama's economic team

For the second time in less than a year, the White House is looking for a new head of the Council of Economic Advisers after Austan Goolsbee said late Monday that he's leaving the post to return to academia. His departure was announced just days after a dismal government jobs report and other indications that the recovery is faltering. » read more

Bahrain media charge that U.S. backs regime's overthrow

Bahrain's reformist Crown Prince headed to Washington Monday for top-level talks, official news media in the Gulf state stepped up a drumbeat of anti-American attacks, some even accusing of the U.S. administration of colluding with opposition leaders they claim are trying to overthrow the state. » read more

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McClatchy reporters are reviewing hundreds of thousands of documents provided by WikiLeaks, revealing insights on U.S. diplomacy around the world, the drug war, the Middle East, and the prison at Guantanamo (right), among other topics. Read our ongoing coverage here.

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