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Voting fraud allegations mar Putin's presidential win
Sun,4 Mar 2012 03:49 PM PST
Reuters -  MOSCOW (Reuters) - A few days before Russia's presidential election, Sergei Smirnov received a phone call from a man who called himself Mikhail and told him the terms of the deal: you will vote for Vladimir Putin four times and receive 2,000 roubles ($70) in return. The sum was promised to dozens of other young men and women who met on Sunday outside a popular fast food joint on the southwest fringe of Moscow, waiting to be taken to various polling stations in the province that rings the capital. Smirnov, a journalist, said he found the group a few weeks prior to the election through a friend. ...
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Obama on Iran: 'I have Israel's back'
Sun,4 Mar 2012 10:45 AM PST
The Ticket -  President Barack Obama had a clear message Sunday in his speech to the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC): It's war. No, not against Iran. But against partisan politics, specifically the Republican line claiming the president hasn't supported Israel enough in its hardline position on Iran. Obama sharply escalated his warnings to Tehran that [...]
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Indiana baby found in field after tornado dies
Sun,4 Mar 2012 06:42 PM PST
Associated Press -  An Indiana toddler found in a field after violent tornadoes died Sunday after being taken off life support, ending a hopeful tale for survivors in the Midwest and South picking through the storms' devastation.
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Limbaugh comments overshadow GOP contest
Sun,4 Mar 2012 05:27 PM PST
Associated Press -  Intensifying debate over conservative social values — and Republican icon Rush Limbaugh — overshadowed the nation's economic concerns Sunday as the Republican presidential campaign hurtled toward Super Tuesday contests that could re-shape the nomination battle and shift the direction of the Grand Old Party.
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7-year-old boy survives brush with tornado in North Carolina
Sun,4 Mar 2012 05:39 PM PST
Reuters -  A 7-year-old boy was recovering on Sunday after a tornado sheared off the walls of his North Carolina home, snatched him from his bed and threw him 350 feet onto the embankment of a nearby interstate, the boy's grandmother told Reuters. Jamal Stevens suffered only minor injuries from the Friday twister that demolished his family's two-story home in Charlotte near Interstate 485, where Jamal was found by his family a few minutes after the twister struck his neighborhood. ...
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Video: Demonstrators interrupt Santorum in Okla. City
Sun,4 Mar 2012 03:31 PM PST
The Ticket -  OKLAHOMA CITY -- About 20 liberal demonstrators tried to shout down Rick Santorum while he delivered his stump speech on the steps of the state capitol building here Sunday, yelling "racist" and "fascist" at the Republican presidential candidate. The anti-Santorum faction began chanting "Get your hate out of our state" when the candidate started his [...]
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Calm weather offers respite after deadly storms
Sun,4 Mar 2012 08:14 PM PST
Reuters -  Calm weather gave dazed residents of storm-wracked U.S. towns a respite on Sunday as they dug out from a chain of tornadoes that cut a swath of destruction from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, killing at least 39 people. The fast-moving twisters spawned by massive thunderstorms splintered blocks of homes, damaged schools and a prison, and tossed around vehicles like toys, killing 21 people in Kentucky, 13 in neighboring Indiana, three in Ohio and one in Alabama, officials said. Georgia also reported a storm-related death. ...
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206 killed in Republic of Congo arms depot blasts
Sun,4 Mar 2012 04:41 PM PST
Associated Press -  Homes and buildings collapsed in the Congolese capital after an arms depot exploded Sunday, killing at least 206 people and entombing countless others in crushed structures including inside two churches ...
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Australian state toughens law for Muslim veils
Sun,4 Mar 2012 08:21 PM PST
Associated Press - Muslim women in Australia's most populous state will have to remove veils to have their signatures officially witnessed under the latest laws giving New South Wales officials authority to look under religious face coverings. Full Story | Top |
Source: U.S. to offer legal backing for 'targeted killing'
Sun,4 Mar 2012 08:08 PM PST
Reuters -  The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how U.S. laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with the matter said, months after a drone strike killed a U.S.-born cleric who plotted attacks from Yemen. Civil liberties groups have been pressuring the administration to offer justification for what has been described as a top-secret "targeted kill" program in which Americans who have joined al Qaeda or other militants are deemed legitimate targets to be killed overseas. U.S. ...
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Seventh advertiser pulls out of Limbaugh's show
Sun,4 Mar 2012 03:11 PM PST
Associated Press -  A flower company is the seventh advertiser to pull its ads from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh's radio program in reaction to his derogatory comments about a law student who testified about ...
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Venezuelan president reveals new tumor was cancerous
Sun,4 Mar 2012 06:15 PM PST
Associated Press -  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez revealed Sunday that a new tumor recently removed from his pelvic region was of the same type of cancer as a baseball-sized growth extracted from that part of his body about eight months ago.
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Greek police arrest suspected smugglers, seize treasures
Sun,4 Mar 2012 02:59 PM PST
Reuters - Greek police arrested 44 people suspected of smuggling ancient artifacts outside the country and recovered thousands of ancient coins and other treasures, the force said on Sunday. A 66-year-old man, suspected of being the leader of a smuggling ring, was arrested along with another 43 people, aged between 25 and 74, including pensioners and municipal workers, police said in a statement. Officers also seized more than 8,000 coins as well as jewelry, bronze statuettes and wooden icons, dating from the sixth century B.C up to the Byzantine period. ... Full Story | Top |
Colleague recalls journalist Anthony Shadid's last moments
Sun,4 Mar 2012 05:58 PM PST
Reuters - In his last moments, New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid knew that he faced danger from the horses that would lead him back to safety from Syria, over the border with Turkey. But he had little choice but to press on. "He will get through this as he did on the much more strenuous hike in, I thought," wrote Shadid's colleague Tyler Hicks in a front-page story in the New York Times on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
Cantor endorsement gives Romney a boost
Sun,4 Mar 2012 10:10 AM PST
The Ticket -  ATLANTA—Mitt Romney scored a major congressional endorsement Sunday, as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor backed the former Massachusetts governor's bid for the Republican nomination. Cantor is the first member of GOP leadership to endorse a Republican candidate, and his decision comes just two days before his home state, Virginia, is set to hold its primary [...]
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Poll: Santorum slightly ahead in Ohio before Super Tuesday
Sun,4 Mar 2012 07:29 AM PST
The Ticket - The weekend before Super Tuesday, an NBC-Marist Ohio poll of registered voters shows Rick Santorum edging out Mitt Romney, but just barely. The topline results: 34% for Rick Santorum 32% for Mitt Romney 15% for Newt Gingrich 13% for Ron Paul 1% other 6% are undecided The poll, conducted February 29 - March 2 with [...] Full Story | Top |
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