The presidential plane Air Force One flew over Iraq for about an hour before heading back to Washington.

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The La Liga giants will then compete in the Peace Cup in Spain, where their opponents include Aston Villa and Celtic, before heading to Canada, where they will face Toronto FC, and Washington, for a game against DC United.

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Washington and New York have never understood each other, and we could be heading for yet another of their periodic failures to communicate.

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