From China to Afghanistan is breaking news

Clinton flew from China to Afghanistan

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07:53 AM EDT Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Clinton makes unannounced trip to Afghanistan

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lands in Kabul following visit to China with President Barack Obama.

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Perhaps unannounced is what makes it breaking news. However, they often go unannounced so the bad guys cannot prepare an unwanted welcome.

I tried both "clinton visit afghanistan" and "clinton visit (afghanistan OR kabul)" Adding OR Kabul added about 100 messages to the stream -- 3235 up to 414. Almost all of the stream was about this visit with only a few at from before the 18th.

Stop search: At 14:30 p.m. January 1, 2009 444 messages were found. The Archivist trendline is

The .txt file ready for Excel is clinton visit (Afghanistan OR Kabul).txt