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WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton refused to count herself out of the US presidential race on Tuesday as her hard-fought duel with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination faced the judgment of voters in Ohio and Texas.
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
I sat down with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad back in December when the U.S. Mission to the United Nations was preparing the draft resolution for this third round of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to dismantle its nuclear program. Between noshes of a chicken sandwich, Khalilzad talked about the […]
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Today’s news story, Governor again tells church it’s due $1 million, prompts a visit to the CoS archives:
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On the award winning sky.com news tonight – all the top stories online, including a discussion on the truly shocking YouTube video clip – apparently showing a gang rape.
The footage depicts a 25-year-old being attacked in front of her screaming young children. She says her drink was spiked. The offence is bad enough, the […]
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Before the primary and caucus season began in January, Mrs Clinton had double digit leads in the polls in both states.
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Babyshambles bass player Drew McConnell has revealed he has collaborated with the Strokes’ guitarist Albert Hammond Jr on a solo record.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat, McConnell said he had also recorded tracks with Fionn Regan: “I did four tracks a couple of months back with Albert Hammond Jr from The Strokes and Fionn […]
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A United Nations helicopter crashed while flying in bad weather in Nepal’s mountainous east, killing seven U.N. staff and three crew, U.N. officials said.
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March 4, 2008 — MOSCOW - Hours after Russia elected Dmitry Medvedev its new president, riot police yesterday cracked down on protesters. Police stormed through the crowd in downtown Moscow, tackling people and dragging them away. “I wouldn’t have thought my children would be growing up in a country that reminds me so much of […]
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, stumping in Texas this weekend for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, took a slap at Sen. Barack Obama’s stance on gay marriage.
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The Israeli daily Ha’aretz,
reporting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had pulled ground troops out of the Gaza Strip yesterday after “intensive fighting that [had] killed more than 100 people in recent days,” noted that Hamas, the Palestinian militant organization that has controlled that territory since last summer, had “seized the opportunity” of the Israeli […]
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Band members were punished if they hit a wrong note when playing for Saddam Hussein, but yesterday the music flowed with ease as they performed for the current Iraqi President and his guest President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran.Surprisingly, old British marching songs such as “The British Grenadiers†were the order of the day, a hangover […]
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I am cursing myself for missing it, but I cannot tell a lie: my talented colleague Leo Lewis spotted it first here. After a year under the leadership of the actor Tom Conti, the next prime minister of Japan looks most likely to be another icon of the British showbiz scene. You thought he’d died […]
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As silence fell after Black Rod issued his demand to the House of Commons summoning MPs into the Queen’s presence, a voice piped up from the backbenches.
“Oo shot the ‘arriers?” it demanded - no doubt a tasteless and ill-timed reference to the recent controversy over whether Prince Harry, the Queen’s grandson and a keen sportsman, […]
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Algunos lectores suponen ciertas cosas sobre mÃ, como mi opinión ante el polémico tema de inmigración. Y debido a ello, algunos han sugerido — en términos poco amables — que debo “regresar a México” — a pesar de que no vengo de allá.
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Let’s imagine, and this is purely hypothetical, that President Bush has already decided that he will not leave office in January 2009 without a satisfactory resolution of the Iranian nuclear problem. Let’s imagine that he has already determined that if he cannot obtain Iran’s agreement to dismantle its nuclear weapons program voluntarily and verifiably, then […]
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The Fourth of July came on Dec. 3 this year for the U.S. intelligence community.
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Many countries are grappling with the complex legal and social issues concerning migration. While Americans debate bilingualism, loyalty and homogeneity, some politicians in Germany fear that a failure to integrate immigrants into society through adequate language training may lead to social problems.
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MOSCOW, March 3 — The head of the only major Western vote-monitoring group that sent a team to Russia to observe Sunday’s presidential election severely criticized the process Monday, and drew a furious rebuttal from the country’s Central Election Commission.
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