RIGA, Latvia, Sept. 10 (UPI) — Oskars Kastens, parliamentarian and until 2008 minister for social integration, represents a generation of youngish, competent and energetic…
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OXFORD, England, July 3 (UPI) — Gen. Wesley Clark has served the United States with honor for 45 years — 38 of them in…
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