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WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton Saturday makes a last
stand in her ebbing White House bid, as the Democratic Party tries
to defuse a unity-sapping row over voided primary votes in Michigan
and Florida. The legal wranglings of the Democratic National
Committee’s rules panel in a Washington hotel will mark the latest
impropable twist in Clinton’s epic coast-to-coast nominating duel
with Barack Obama, now drawing to a close. The former first lady won
outlaw elections in both Florida and Michigan, which gatecrashed the
party’s set-in-stone nominating calendar—but the states were
punished and had their nominating convention delegates stripped.
AFP
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s deposed
monarch is willing to leave his pink-hued palace quietly to begin
life as a commoner but wants help with housing and protection for
his family, state-run media reported Saturday. “The king has
expressed his wish to respect the constituent assembly’s historic
decision and make a peaceful exit,” said Pradeep Aryal, secretary
at the now-dissolved Narayanhiti Palace secretariat, The Rising
Nepal reported. Aryal made the comment after the palace received a
letter Friday formally asking the unpopular ex-monarch to leave for
a private residence within two weeks, in line with the newly-elected
assembly’s vote Wednesday.
AFP
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