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(Reuters) AFRICA ETHIOPIA: TRUCE AND TROOPS In a possible setback for peace in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has threatened to keep its troops in southern Eritrea until Eritrea honors its truce commitments.

In a possible setback for the billionaire investor Fran?s Pinault's takeover plan for the utility Suez, President Jacques Chirac and Albert Fr?, Suez's biggest investor, said they supported a merger with Gaz de France.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In a possible setback for Mitt Romney's latest Presidential ambitions, a new poll reveals that a majority of Americans now regard the former Massachusetts governor as a stalker.

What now troubles Francois Heisbourg, who heads the Institute for Strategic Studies here, is a possible setback for the Start treaty, scheduled for completion at a Moscow summit in February.

By Andy Borowitz March 8 , 2013MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) — In a possible setback for the Administration's controversial drone policy, a new poll conducted by the University of Minnesota shows that a broad majority of Americans are opposed to being killed by a drone strike on U.S. soil.

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Participants said that no "fateful" decisions were made, but they were bracing for a possible setback in at least one Florida court and sorted through some options should the Florida Legislature award the state's 25 electoral votes to Mr. Bush on Dec. 12.

Participants said no "fateful" decisions were made at the meeting, but they said they were bracing for a possible setback in at least one Florida court and considered how to counter a possible pre-emptive move by the Florida Legislature in awarding the state's decisive 25 electoral votes to Gov. George W. Bush, even as the tabulation of ballots might show a win for Mr. Gore.

Now Moore aims to once again parlay a possible setback in Montgomery into defiant victory.

But many accounts of the weeklong diplomacy placed significant import on Obama's absence and the possible setback for his administration's pledge to "pivot" diplomatic and security resources from Europe and the Middle East to Asia.

Although the debate over the bill focuses on the possible setbacks for disadvantaged castes, it rarely addresses whether quotas for women are of themselves desirable.

Before they left for Moscow a senior Yard detective said: "We'll be welcomed with open arms, offered a nice meal and lots of vodka... and come home with next to nothing". In a further possible setback, a lawyer for a man regarded by the Yard as one of their best witnesses said he could not see them immediately because he was in hospital undergoing further tests for contamination with polonium-210.

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