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Clinton hard-pressed to win Pennsylvania
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: Hillary Clinton must win Tuesday’s
Pennsylvania primary, but she needs to do more than simply scrape
past rival Barack Obama to rescue her rambling White House bid.
The New York senator is tipped for victory in
late opinion polls, but many observers think it will take a
double-digit triumph to stave off more calls for her to quit the
epic Democratic nomination race.
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Al-Qaeda to attack pro-Iraq war
countries
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CAIRO: Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri warned Tuesday in
his latest audiotape that the terror group still plans to target
Western countries involved in the Iraq War.
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Disney to produce nature documentaries
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LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney Studios Monday unveiled a new film label
that will specifically produce nature documentaries, with one of the
first film projects titled Earth and set for release on Earth Day
2009.
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Dalai Lama asks US aid for
Tibet improvement
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan: The Dalai Lama asked Washington for help Monday
in improving the situation in Tibet, in the highest level meeting
with the US administration since Beijing’s crackdown in his
homeland.
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BEIJING: China and France sought to patch up their
differences Tuesday amid anger over protests surrounding the Olympic
torch relay, but a Paris city honor for the Dalai Lama threatened to
scupper efforts. The tension was underlined with the
wheelchair-bound fencer Jin Jing saying that French President
Nicolas Sarkozy owed her an apology. On a visit to Shanghai on
Monday, French Senate President Christian Poncelet passed on a
letter from Sarkozy to the disabled athlete in which he condemned
the raucous demonstrations.
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