About 70 percent of the money from international donors will pay public salaries, while 30 percent is expected to be used for development, food relief, and other assistance.
Republican and Democratic presidential candidates set off Sunday to make their final arguments in person to as many New Hampshire voters as they could find.
A plan that could authorize more aggressive operations follows concern that Al Qaeda and the Taliban hope to destabilize the Pakistani government, officials said.
AP - Hundreds of homes sat in as much as 8 feet of water Sunday following a canal rupture as freezing weather spread sheets of ice over yards and streets, hindering efforts to get the water to drain away.
AP - The leading Democratic presidential candidates clashed Sunday over each other's claim to be the true candidate of change in the final hours of the slushy New Hampshire homestretch. Clinton told voters they should elect "a doer, not a talker." Obama countered that his rivals are stuck in the politics of the past.
AP - An emboldened John McCain declared "I will win," and Republican rival Mitt Romney scrambled to prevent a second big race to slip away in the frenzied final hours before the New Hampshire primary.
Sen. Barack Obama has opened a double-digit lead in New Hampshire over Sen. Hillary Clinton just two days before that state's Democratic primary, a new CNN-WMUR poll found Sunday. Obama, who won last week's Democratic caucus in Iowa, now leads Clinton by 10 percentage points after being virtually tied in a previous poll.
Front-running presidential candidates in both parties sniped at one other Saturday night as they debated ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. Republicans John McCain and Mike Huckabee hit rival Mitt Romney for changing his position on key issues. Democrat Hillary Clinton criticized Barack Obama, seeking to paint him as a flip-flopper on key issues.
Six Republicans and four Democrats sparred over immigration, terrorism and each other's records during a double-feature debate in New Hampshire on Saturday, just three days before the Granite State holds the nation's first primary.
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