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Early
returns show strong lead
for Hun Sen in Cambodian vote
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PHNOM PENH: Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party won nearly 60
percent of the vote in early returns from weekend polls, according
to a partial count Monday by Cambodian election authorities.
Initial returns from 11 of the
nation’s 24 provinces showed that the ruling Cambodian People’s
Party (CPP) had won 59.8 percent of the 1.6 million votes counted so
far.
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Hundreds protest
immigration raid in small-town America
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POSTVILLE, Iowa: Led by 43 women
with electronic tracking bracelets on their ankles, hundreds of
people from around the country marched down main street here Sunday
to protest the biggest immigration raid in US history at a kosher
meat plant that has split this tiny Iowa town asunder.
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Obama to shift
focus on economy after overseas trip
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WASHINGTON: Democratic White
House contender Barack Obama was to shift the focus of his campaign
on the troubled US economy Monday, after basking in the adulation of
foreign crowds during last week’s trip.
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‘Dinosaur eel’
points to body armor of the future
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PARIS: An extraordinary fish that
inhabits muddy pools in West Africa and whose lineage can be traced
back 96 million years could be the model for light, bombproof body
armor for the soldiers of the future.
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AHMEDABAD, India: Indian leaders
appealed for calm Sunday as the army was called out after a wave of
bombings killed 45 people in Ahmedabad, a city rocked by deadly
Hindu-Muslim riots six years ago.
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