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Obama adviser quits after calling Hillary a ‘monster’
WASHINGTON, March 7: A key foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama resigned on Friday, after calling his White House foe Hillary Clinton a “monster” as the hyper-competitive Democratic race took another negative lurch....
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Basque killing halts Spanish poll campaign
MADRID, March 7: Spain’s main political parties cancelled closing campaign rallies on Friday, two days before an election, after a former councillor from the governing Socialist Party was shot and killed in the Basque Country....
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Western monitors barred from Zimbabwe election
HARARE, March 7: EU member states and the United States have been excluded from a list of observers who will be invited to monitor the March 29 general elections in Zimbabwe, the government announced on Friday....
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UN accuses US of racial discrimination
GENEVA, March 7: US law enforcement is guilty of discrimination in its use of racial profiling to target Arabs and Muslims since the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, a United Nations report said on Friday....
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UK cautions Israel on illegal settlements
LONDON, March 7: Britain warned Israel on Friday over the expansion of Jewish settlements, saying any building on occupied Palestinian lands, including in East Jerusalem, was illegal under international law....
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Celebration of attack ‘fairly disgusting’: US
WASHINGTON, March 7: The White House on Friday denounced what it called “fairly disgusting” celebrations in Gaza of a deadly attack on a Jerusalem school and implicitly criticized moderate Arab nations’ silence....
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Hamas claims responsibility
GAZA, March 7: Hamas movement claimed responsibility for a shooting attack at a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem that killed eight people, a Hamas official said on Friday....
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Is US evangelical vote in play?
DALLAS: Evangelical Christians who have greatly influenced recent US elections are seen playing a different but once again key role in this November’s White House race and analysts say both parties are keen to woo them....
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The plight of Democrats
LONDON: Well, that was the worst possible outcome for the Democrats and for all those, in America and beyond, yearning for change after eight failed years of Republican rule....
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US opens door to Hamas with Egypt mediation
BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has faced pressure for months to engage Hamas and this week she gave Egypt the nod to negotiate with them to end violence in Gaza....
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Changeable plastic mimics sea cucumber’s trick
CHICAGO: A new material inspired by a defence mechanism in sea cucumbers can change easily from hard and rigid to soft and floppy, a feature that may make it suited for medical implants, US researchers said....
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‘Merchant of Death’ who fuelled civil wars
LONDON/ BANKOK: If Viktor Bout did not exist, a thriller writer would have invented him. A former Russian lieutenant, he became one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, flying his ancient Soviet planes into battlefields from Liberia to Afghanistan....
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