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Barack Obama is in Iraq this morning. After spening the night in Kuwait -- the Democratic presidential candidate and other congressional leaders headed for Baghdad. Obama has long called for the removal of one or two US brigades a month from Iraq. Hoping to end the war in a little more than a year.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Iran was not serious in weekend talks over its disputed nuclear program. Rice says Tehran will now face new sanctions unless it changes its behavior within the next two weeks. Iran continues to claim its nuclear program is strictly for power generation. The U-S did sent a senior diplomat to the meeting.

The Air Force says a B-52 bomber carrying six crew members has crashed off the island of Guam. The Coast Guard says two people have been recovered from the waters, but there is no word on their condition. The accident is the second for the Air Force this year on Guam.

Security concerns are now heightened in China after two separate explosions on a pair of public buses. The explosions happened within an hour of one another. Two people were killed in the blasts, another 14 were injured. Its unclear what or who caused the explosions.

the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.