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Attendees wave Chinese flags during a ceremony at Tiananmen Square to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing

Chinese Communist Party 100 years: Xi warns China won’t be bullied

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China’s president warns against bullying from foreign powers on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. And, two-term US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at the age of 88, with the controversial 2003 invasion of Iraq highlighting his career. Also, a First Nation Indigenous community in Canada finds the remains of an additional 182 children in unmarked graves near a Catholic-church run residential school.

A member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) takes his position during a patrol looking for militants of the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in a neighborhood in Ramadi, July 23, 2014.

Iraq is in serious trouble. Here’s how it got there

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A resident gestures as he talks to a U.S. soldier from 2nd Brigade combat team, 82nd Airborne on patrol in Baghdad's Adhamiya district January 5, 2008.

How wars end part I: Iraq

Conflict & Justice

Examining 10 years of US counterterrorism

Global Politics

Defense Secretary Robert Gates accused of ignoring sexual assaults

Global Politics

Donald Rumsfeld sued for alleged torture

Global Politics

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sued over the alleged torture of three U.S. citizens who worked as contractors in Iraq.

Pentagon Insider Steve Bucci Admits ‘Bad Assumptions’ About Iraq, 10 Years On

When Steve Bucci agreed to talk to The World about the invasion of Iraq I expected to run into lots of defensive deflection. Bucci was part of the inner circle at the Pentagon at the time of the invasion, as a military assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Iraq — 10 Years Later: ‘What We Did Wrong’

Lifestyle & Belief

The war in Iraq did not go according to plan. Instead, a stubborn insurgency was born, which morphed into a vicious sectarian conflict.

What’s Become of the Neoconservative Movement?

Global Politics

What’s become of the neoconservative movement that was in ascendancy during the first term of the George W. Bush administration.

The World

Tom Ridge: Former Homeland Security Head Turns Author

Global Politics

Tom Ridge became the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency formed in the months after the September 11 attacks. The Takeaway talks to him about his experiences in the Bush administration.