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Obama, Clinton hold hush-hush talks
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WASHINGTON: Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton held a
hush-hush meeting late Thursday as Obama kicked off his campaign for
the White House and amid speculation over his vice presidential
pick.
Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met tonight
and had a productive discussion about the important work that needs
to be done to succeed in [the election in] November,” their
campaigns said in joint statement, US media said.
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Indonesia skeptical on
ASEAN’s anti-terror plan
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JAKARTA: Indonesia is having second thoughts about ratifying the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Convention on
Counterterrorism, arguing key elements in the convention already
exist in national law, local media reported Friday.
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9/11 suspects demand for death penalty
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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba: The alleged mastermind of the September 11,
2001 attacks and two co-conspirators defiantly sought Thursday to be
sentenced to death at a US military hearing here, saying they had
long sought martyrdom.
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UN summit vows to stave off hunger by 2015
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ROME: A UN summit vowed Thursday to halve global hunger by 2015 and
take “urgent” action over the global food crisis, but only after
going into overtime at a fractious summit in Rome.
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Honeybees able to learn different ‘dialects’
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BEIJING: Honeybees are able to understand the foreign languages
communicated through the dances of bees from different continents,
scientists from China, Australia and Germany have found.
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Japan fetes Ainu as indigenous
people after centuries
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TOKYO: Japan on Friday for the first time recognized the Ainu as an
indigenous people, pledging to support the traditionally
nature-worshipping community that has endured centuries of
discrimination.
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Phoenix to dig into Mars soil
as search for life goes on
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WASHINGTON: The US Mars probe Phoenix was ready to dig its
backhoe-like arm into the Martian arctic soil for samples scientists
hope hold signs of the existence of water and life-supporting
organic minerals, NASA said Thursday.
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