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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt resumes its first free presidential election on Thursday after voting passed off mostly calmly on the first day apart from a stone-throwing attack on candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was premier for a few days before Hosni Mubarak fell. The race broadly pits...(more)
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Agency head apologises for Cartagena prostitution scandal, but senators don't seem convinced the incident was isolatedThe head of the US secret service went before Congress on Wednesday in an attempt to play down the Cartagena sex scandal, but his testimony appeared not to convince sceptical senators.Mark...(more)
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Two weeks after President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that he has "no problem with it." Powell, who is doing a series of television interviews to promote a new book, endorsed...(more)
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BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's interim leader Dioncounda Traore is due to fly to France on Wednesday for medical checks after he was attacked by protesters earlier this week, two diplomatic sources and an official at Bamako airport said.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., doled out attacks on President Obama tonight in a high-profile speech before South Carolina Republicans, laying out aggressive criticisms of the president as he called him the most “divisive figure” in American politics. “The president and his party’s...
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The state of Hawaii has verified President Obama's birth records to Arizona's elections chief after a back and forth that Arizona officials said could have ended without the incumbent's name on its November ballot.
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Republicans are rightly shamed by a Super Pac ad plan to tag Obama as a black radical. The irony is his very lack of radicalismNebraska has already supplied the right with a billionaire boogeyman: Warren Buffet, hero of the secretarial pool and worldly philanthropist. Now, the...(more)
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A suggested ad blitz funded by wealthy donors would have focused on the president's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright of ChicagoWASHINGTON — "Super PACs," the free-ranging groups formed to exploit a new era of unbridled campaign spending, have dominated the 2012 presidential race, buoying...(more)
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The leading opposition candidate in the Dominican Republic's presidential election conceded defeat on Tuesday but defiantly stood by his claim that the country's vote was plagued by irregularities. Hipolito Mejia, a former president and candidate for the Dominican Revolutionary Party, had failed...(more)
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pushed into second place behind opposition frontrunner Enrique Pena Nieto with just seven weeks to go before the vote, a poll showed on Tuesday. Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost the 2006 race to President...(more)
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A Congressional report says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession.
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Turnout is expected to be high in Wednesday's presidential election in Egypt, with voters keen to make historyEgypt has been through extraordinary times in the past 15 months, from the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, through spasms of shocking violence and parliamentary elections that saw triumphant Islamists...(more)
