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LONDON — Sen. John McCain charmed donors over fish pâté in London. Sen. Hillary Clinton sent her husband to Dublin and London to hug for dollars. Sen. Barack Obama rallied supporters in Beijing by teleconference and sent his wife to London to pan for campaign gold.
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BEIJING, April 19 — A small knot of Chinese protesters demonstrated outside the French Embassy on Saturday, denouncing calls for Tibetan independence and venting anger at those who tried to grab the Olympic torch from a disabled Chinese athlete during the Paris stretch of the relay.
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PANAMA CITY, June 4 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela’s foreign minister on Monday fired verbal broadsides at each other here over the closure of a television station in Venezuela that has been critical of the government.
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LIMA, Peru, Dec. 13 — Argentina’s new president berated the United States on Thursday for alleging that the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had tried to illegally funnel cash to her recent presidential campaign, labeling the accusations “garbage.”
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PUERTO PALOMAS, Mexico — Javier Emilio Pérez Ortega, a workaholic Mexican police chief, showed up at the sleepy, two-lane border crossing here last month and asked U.S. authorities for political asylum.
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NEW YORK — Pope Benedict XVI has said he would like to reach out to the Muslim community through dialogue, and Muslims were included in the pontiff’s meeting with interfaith leaders in Washington on Thursday night. But many Muslims in America remain wary, saying the pope has created the impression that he is insensitive to […]
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UNITED NATIONS — At his residence at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Zalmay Khalilzad displays a banged-up AK-47 assault rifle from Saddam Hussein’s arsenal: a souvenir from a war Khalilzad supported and a regime he helped topple.
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BAGHDAD, April 19 — Anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr threatened Saturday to launch an all-out war against the U.S.-backed Iraqi government if it continues a widespread crackdown on his followers.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China sought on Sunday to contain an outpouring of nationalism triggered by protests along the route of the Olympic torch relay, with state media urging people to channel their patriotism into “rational” expressions.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is attracting record numbers of young voters — but will a demographic known for low turnout vote in enough numbers to defeat Hillary Clinton in the graying state of Pennsylvania?
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“There are those who questioned whether or not the prime minister was prepared to go after militias that were associated one way or another with political elements in his coalition … and there have been questions from the Arab states,” Rice said. “I think he’s answering that question.”
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THE BIG day is Tuesday next: the place is Pennsylvania. If Hillary Clinton does extraordinarily well, she might still have a slim chance of winning the Democratic nomination, so she was giving no quarter in the debate last week where Barack Obama was being questioned about his patriotism.
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President Vladimir Putin yesterday denied that he is planning to marry a 24-year-old gymnast, and told journalists to keep their “snotty noses” out of his private life.
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MOSCOW (April 19) - A Russian capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut touched down 260 miles off target in northern Kazakhstan on Saturday after hurtling through the atmosphere in a bone-jarring descent from the international space station.
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416 children to be taken from their mothers. To be brainwashed by the American State. To be taught to lie, to steal and to hurt each other in a democratic fashion. Is this any better for them than living in a compound in harmony with their families, however peculiar those families may seem?None of […]
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CANBERRA - Australia’s government fears an outbreak of “football hooliganism” at the Olympic torch relay with thousands of pro-China and pro-Tibet activists massing for demonstrations, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said today.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Afghans are exercising voters registration for a country-wide democratic presidential elections for the first time in their history.
On October 9, 2004, the country’s first-ever direct election was held.
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And it’s all about — you guessed it — the protests against the Beijing Olympic torch, which have occurred in some degree or another along nearly every global stop. From Reuters:
“France on Wednesday played down calls in China for consumers to boycott French products and brands after pro-Tibet and […]