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Puerto
Rico plays the starring
role in Clinton’s epic
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Puerto Ricans cannot vote for president in US
general elections, but their Caribbean archipelago has a starring
role on Sunday in White House hopeful Hillary Clinton’s long-odds
comeback bid.
Some 2.4 million electors have a
rare chance in the Democratic primary to make their voices heard in
top-level US politics, despite having little sway over the federal
government that rules them and no seats in Congress.
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Nepal set to evict
former king
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KATHMANDU: Nepal’s government
said Friday it has started an audit of palace property after an
historic assembly abolished the monarchy and gave Hindu
‘god-king’ Gyanendra a two-week eviction order.
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N. Korea shrugs
off Kim’s death rumors
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SEOUL: It is business as usual in
North Korea a day after rumors of the death of Kim Jong Il were
debunked, an official and an expert said Friday.
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Japanese man finds
woman living in his closet
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TOKYO: A Japanese man puzzled by
food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock
when he found out a woman had been living in his home for months
without permission, police said Friday.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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A Turkish currently rowing across
the Pacific Ocean as part of a human-powered circumnavigation is
expected to arrive in General Santos City, Philippines on June 2.
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