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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has set up Texas and Ohio as her firewall, but the results from Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama's most recent victories give her plenty of reason to worry whether it will hold up.
Obama won sweeping victories in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
In the United States, Democratic Senator Barack Obama goes into the next round of nominating primaries with the wind at his back and an opponent becalmed in a sea of trouble.
Senator Obama is expected to build on his string of victories over the weekend with success in the Maryland, Virginia ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
[Tom Lantos, 1928-2008 -- Lantos supported HR 2003 "Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007"]
Washington, DC - Congressman Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo, San Francisco), 80, passed away this morning due to complications from cancer at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.
Elected to office in 1980, Lantos was Chairman of the House Committee ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican voters showed Saturday they're not ready to crown Sen. John McCain as the party's nominee while Sen. Barack Obama moved ahead of Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for Democratic delegates.
Obama claimed victory in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington on Saturday, as well as in the Virgin ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Telegraph
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Russia will "always respond" to any moves made in the new "arms race".
"Russia will always respond to this new challenge," he said, promising "new weapons that have the same characteristics, and in some cases better characteristics, as those being built by other countries."
In ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
BBC - British detectives investigating the death of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto say she died from the effect of a bomb blast, not gunfire. Detectives from Scotland Yard were asked by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to examine the circumstances surrounding Bhutto's death in December.
Scotland Yard's account matches that ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
ROME (AFP) — Italy on Wednesday set snap elections in April that will probably return conservative media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi to power after he torpedoed efforts to overhaul the country's unpopular voting system.
President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament with "regret," having hoped that an interim government could be set up to ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Hillary Rodham Clinton called her hometown New York Giants’ surprise Super Bowl victory a “real omen” for her Super Tuesday chances.
However, the latest USA Today/Gallup poll shows that her closest competitor, Barack Obama, has erased what was once a double-digit lead for Mrs. Clinton. Now, Mr. ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is making an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo Inc., the Internet icon and one the best known Web portals, in a move to boost its competitive edge against Google Inc. in the online services market.
The unexpected announcement Friday comes as Yahoo and Microsoft ...
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