The US troops are going to draw back from Iraq within 4 months.

In a sharp setback for the White House, Senate Republicans failed to strike language from a massive emergency war spending bill which calls for the removal of US troops serving in Iraq to begin within 4 months.

The President of Guinea Lansana Conte has named a new government a month after appointing a new prime minister to end a series of strikes which brought the country to a standstill for several weeks. President Come announced members of the new cabinet on a television broad- cast after consultations with the Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate.