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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigned in Ohio on Sunday ahead of Tuesday's primary. Many analysts say the state is a must-win for Clinton if she wants to stay in the hunt for the nomination.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad begins a controversial visit to Baghdad. He will meet with the Shiite leaders of Iraq's government and visit holy cities south of the capital. Iraqi Sunni leaders complain that the visit is further proof of the growing Iranian influence in Baghdad.

As Russians vote in their Presidential election Sunday, current President Vladimir Putin's chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is the all-but-certain winner. But opposition leaders condemn the vote as a Soviet-style ritual that could leave Putin holding on to power from behind the scenes.

In economically troubled Ohio, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been trying to out-do each other in their opposition to NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Republican contender John McCain joined in with his views on NAFTA this week, too.

The sheer size of Barack Obama's crowds has been making headlines. But, as was seen in New Hampshire and California, big crowds and a sense of Obama-mania in the news doesn't necessarily translate into victories. Hillary Clinton won those states. Clinton's campaign team complains the media has not scrutinized Obama closely.

More than 20 million Kurdish people live divided between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. Ivan Watson has a reporter's notebook about the Kurds' relentless quest for an independent Kurdistan, and the infighting that characterizes the movement.

An Egyptian band made up of police officers has been invited to an Arab cultural center is Israel. But the men - all dressed in uniforms that you'd consider military in style if it weren't for their soft, powder blue color - are dropped off at the wrong town. Stranded out in the dessert with no Israeli money and significant language barriers, the men initially find the locals less that happy about their arrival. But the men, who look so desperately out of place, soon win the sympathy of a local restaurant owner (Ronit Elkabetz). She offers them food and finds them all a place to sleep as they await a driver to take them to the correct town.

We'll talk with Aliza Marcus, a journalist who has covered the area and written a book about it, to get the latest updates in Iraq.

Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, Sam Nunn and William Perry argue the only way to stop nuclear weapons from falling into terrorist hands is to get rid of all of them. This week the former statesmen and their supporters convened in Oslo, Norway, for a conference.

As Russians prepare to vote for a new president on Sunday, it's a foregone conclusion that Vladimir Putin's chosen successor Dmitri Medvedev will win in a landslide. The Kremlin appears to be so sure of Medvedev's victory that it has spent almost nothing on campaign advertising.