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This week: Two weeks after President Obama announced combat operations over in Iraq, US soldiers engaged in combat in which civilians were killed; the Obama administration is being sued over a claim that it is withholding key data on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf; the US Food and Drug Administration is not going to require genetically-modified salmon to be labeled in stores; and the legitimacy of Afghanistan's elections are once again in doubt over questions of violence and voter disenfranchisement. These stories and more on The Global Report.

This week: A new report reveals that immigrants help to bolster the US economy, raising average wages and stimulating investment; former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was faced with a crowd of shoe-and egg-hurling protesters at the first stop of his book tour; one week after the supposed end to combat operations in Iraq, officials are saying the US will likely keep US troops there beyond 2011. At the same time, the private military contractor presence in Iraq has ballooned. These stories and more.

People in the Gulf Coast say they're getting sick from BP's oil dispersants while US officials reported a large increase in the numbers of endangered species injured or killed. Also, the United States wants Iraq to take responsibility for innocent civilians killed in U.S. military operations; NATO has left hundreds of Afghan familes homeless; and scientists tell Congress that Greenland may soon disappear entirely. These stories and more.

Afghanistan questions American silence about its ally Pakistan supporting the Taliban; leaked documents show the United States paying Afghan news media for positive coverage; President Barak Obama wants to double US weapons sales around the world; and oil and chemical dispersant from BP's disaster in the Gulf is now in the food-chain. These stories and more.