September 25, 2007

Earlybird Roundup: Myanmar Sanctions, Chao Subpoena

United Nations. President Bush will address the General Assembly today, announcing sanctions against Myanmar and discussing literacy, poverty and development in Africa.

United Nations II. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders to take "unprecedented action" against global warming at a conference yesterday.

Administration. A House panel subpoenaed documents relating to the Utah mine collapse from Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.

Congress. The Senate yesterday approved a bill allocating $23 billion for water resource projects.

Iraq. A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people at a meeting between Sunni and Shiite leaders in Baquba.

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