BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Iraq and Iran have agreed to exchange the remains of soldiers killed during the Iraq-Iran war that raged in the 1980s, the Iraqi government spokesman said.

Ali al-Dabbagh said both sides have set a preliminary date of November 15 for the exchange at a border post. The Iraqi government will receive the remains of 200 Iraqis from the Iranian side in exchange for the remains of 41 Iranians. Al-Dabbagh said that the Iraqi government will have funeral proceedings and official burials of those Iraqi soldiers.

This announcement comes after Iran and Iraq on October 16 signed "a memorandum of understanding aimed at clarifying the fate of persons missing in connection with the 1980-1988 war."

From Bill Mears
CNN Supreme Court Producer

MARSHFIELD, Vermont (CNN) - When Diana Winn Levine wants to play a guitar, she needs the assistance of her daughter, Jessamine.

While one strums, the other fingers the notes. It's an awkward arrangement but it works. At the end, Levine raises a empowering fist salute, but it's a phantom gesture. Her hand is not there.

Levine went to get treated for a severe migraine in April 2000, and weeks later left a hospital without her arm below the elbow. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the professional musician can keep a nearly $7 million jury award, in an important business case with broad implications for consumers and corporations alike. Arguments in the case are set for Monday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - Two separate suspected U.S. missile strikes killed 28 people in northwest Pakistan Friday, military sources and local and intelligence officials told CNN.

In the first strike, suspected U.S. missiles from two unmanned drones hit a village in North Waziristan, killing 21 people, local and intelligence officials said.

According to the officials, the attack occurred in a village in Mir Ali. The missiles hit a house, which then burned to the ground, the officials said. It was not immediately clear if those killed had been inside. Those killed were not identified.

Later, two suspected U.S. drones fired two missiles at a house in South Waziristan, killing seven people, locals and military and intelligence sources said.

Five of the dead were suspected to have been Arab fighters, a tribal chief said.

Five people were also injured in the attack, which occurred around 10:30 p.m. in a village near Wana, according to local and intelligence sources.

No other details were immediately available, and there was no immediate reaction from the U.S. military.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - A second suspected U.S. missile strike hit a
village in South Waziristan Friday, killing seven people, including five
suspected foreign fighters, military sources said.Earlier Friday, suspected U.S. missiles from two unmanned drones killed Twenty-one people in North Waziristan, local and intelligence officials said.

NEW YORK (CNN) - A New York Police Department transit officer was under arrest Friday for his alleged involvement in a brutal robbery crew which targeted large-scale drug traffickers along the East Coast.

The United State's Attorney's office has indicted three men, one of whom, Jorge Arbaje-Diaz, was a three-year veteran of the NYPD. Police previously arrested 15 alleged members of the gang in May.

Arbaje-Diaz is accused of participating in a "violent robbery crew responsible for more than one hundred armed robberies of narcotics traffickers," according to a U.S. Attorney's office statement.

The robberies netted at least 750 kilograms of cocaine and $4 million in drug proceeds over the course of five years.

Arbaje-Diaz was one of at least 18 members of the crew which accessed drug traffickers homes by posing as police officers. The gang is accused of handcuffing, torturing and threatening their victims with arrest if they did not reveal where they stashed their drugs and money.

(CNN) - If the Democrats reach their goal of capturing 60 seats in the Senate, North Carolina may be a major reason why.

Freshman Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole is trailing her Democratic opponent, Kay Hagan, by nine points, 53 percent to 44 percent, a new CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Friday suggests. Hagan had a smaller lead in other recent polls in North Carolina.

An already bitter contest turned uglier this week, when an ad by Dole's campaign suggested Hagan was "godless." The Dole campaign says it based its charge on Hagan's attendance at a fundraiser in the home of an advisor to the Godless Americans' political action committee, a group that promotes rights for
atheists.

Hagan, a state senator from Greensboro, returned fire, saying she was "absolutely appalled" by the ad, calling it "politics of the worst kind." She also filed a lawsuit to prevent the ad from running.

The poll in North Carolina was conducted before Dole's campaign commercial began airing.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Justice Department will deploy more than 800 federal observers and monitors to voting sites in 23 states to make sure voters' federal rights are not violated on election day.

While many of the problems that may occur in what is expected to be a record turnout next Tuesday will come under the purview of state and local officials since they have the primary responsibility for running elections, the federal government is responsible for making sure federal laws are not
violated.

The primary law in question is the Voting Rights Act, which bans intimidation based on race, color, or religion. The department will also investigate and prosecute cases of voter fraud.

Unlike in years past, the Justice Department announced last month it will not use any criminal prosecutors to monitor elections to allay concerns of some voting rights advocates including them would discourage some from voting.

The observers will come from the Office of Personnel Management while the monitors will be Justice Department employees. Usually the destinations chosen are ones where claims of discrimination have occurred in the past or where there are current allegations.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) - Suspected U.S. missiles from two unmanned drones killed 21 people Friday in northwest Pakistan, local and intelligence officials said.

According to the officials, the attack occurred in North Waziristan. North Waziristan, a region near the Afghan border, is rife with Islamic extremists.

(CNN) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will start advertising for the first time in rival John McCain's home state just days before the November 4 election, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters Friday.

Plouffe said the campaign will broadcast its positive spot, "Something," in Arizona.

"We're running a positive ad there. It's Sen. McCain's home state. We're cognizant of that," Plouffe said.

The latest CNN Arizona Poll of Polls, released Friday morning, finds McCain leading by 4 percentage points in his home state.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - The monthly Iraqi civilian death tolls from violence across the country have dropped in October, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said on Friday.

The official believes it is the lowest monthly Iraqi civilian death toll since the bombing of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra in February 2006, an event that caused widespread sectarian warfare.

Listing figures from the Interior, Health, and Defense ministries, the official said 278 civilians were killed and 464 wounded this month, compared to 359 killed and 705 wounded in September.

Twenty-two police were killed and 64 were wounded, compared to 56 killed and 145 wounded in September. Eighteen soldiers were killed and 40 were wounded, compared to 26 killed and 41 wounded in September.

The figures illustrate the drop in violence in Iraq.