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Clinton steps up ad wars as poll lead evaporates
US: HILLARY CLINTON has turned up the heat on
Barack Obama ahead of next Tuesday's primaries in Texas and Ohio
with a television ad that mimics scare messages used by Lyndon
Johnson against Barry Goldwater and by Walter Mondale against Gary
Hart. p
Gazprom's tower to soar over city of Peter the Great
RUSSIA: If historic St Petersburg is an enduring
monument to the western tastes and vaulting ambition of its
creator, Peter the Great, then the latest makeover of Russia's
second city is testament to the political and financial power of
President Vladimir Putin. p
Ministry pulls Prince Harry out of combat zone
BRITAIN: Prince Harry's war in Afghanistan has came to an abrupt end following worldwide media coverage of his secret deployment there which was deemed to compromise his security and that of others serving alongside him. p
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McCain will have his work cut out to enthuse Republican right
US: CHRIS POHL came to the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington to peddle hats. As political gimmicks go, it was ingenious: a Russian ushanka, complete with fur ear flaps, stamped with a red hammer and sickle and interchangeable name tags - Hillary '08 or Obama '08. Twenty-five dollars. pMore than one in 100 adult US citizens now in prison
US: More than one in a 100 adult Americans are in prison, a higher rate of incarceration than at any time in US history that is pushing the budgets of several states to breaking point, a report warns. pFisherman swims 13km to safety
AUSTRALIA: A COMMERCIAL fisherman who swam for 12 hours to shore to raise the alarm after his trawler sank has been hailed as a hero in Australia. Michael Williams (39) made the 13km (eight miles) swim to a beach near Byron Bay and sparked an air search for his two crewmates. pIrish potato holds promise of better future for Malawi's hungry
MALAWI: In the village of Bembeke, they call it the Irish potato. Here, like everywhere else in Malawi, the Irish label is what locals use to differentiate between paler fleshed tubers and the orange hues of the more indigenous sweet potato. pIraq government agrees 'Chemical Ali' to be hanged
IRAQ: ALI HASSAN al-Majid, the notorious "Chemical Ali", who orchestrated the mass murder of Kurdish civilians in the 1980s, is to be hanged, the Iraqi government confirmed yesterday. pIsraelis backtrack on 'Shoah' remark
MIDDLE EAST: Deputy defence minister Matan Vilnai had Israeli officials scrambling to explain his remarks yesterday after he warned the Palestinians that they would bring a "bigger holocaust" upon themselves if they continued to step up rocket attacks on Israel. pAbbas seen as too fragile to strike deal and implement it
MIDDLE EAST: WHEN INFRASTRUCTURE minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer opens his mouth, a lot of people sit up and listen. This has less to do with Ben-Eliezer himself, and a lot more to do with the fact that the infrastructure minister is one of the people closest to defence minister and Labor Party leader Ehud Barak. The assumption is that when Ben-Eliezer speaks, he is often echoing the private thoughts of Barak. pClash of personalities at heart of Franco-German chill
FRANCE: WHEN THE Élysée announced this week that the next "Blaesheim summit" of French and German leaders, scheduled to take place on March 3rd, had been postponed until June 9th, there was an outbreak of soul-searching about the chill in Franco-German relations. pSuicide bomber kills 38 at Pakistan funeral
PAKISTAN: A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up among mourners at a police funeral, killing at least 38 people in northwest Pakistan yesterday on Friday, intelligence officials said. pSerb police officers in Kosovo refuse to work with Albanian colleagues
KOSOVO: SERB POLICE in Kosovo are refusing to work alongside their Albanian colleagues, in the latest stage in a Belgrade-led drive to divide the new state along ethnic lines. pTurkey ends ground invasion of Iraq
TURKEY: TURKEY'S MILITARY yesterday ended its incursion into northern Iraq, claiming it had achieved its objectives and rejecting suggestions that political pressure had forced it to bring its troops home early. pRock's Hall of Fame a paradise for the boys who never grew up
America: In downtown Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie, a giant glass pyramid pumps out old hits all day long as a steady stream of middle-aged men files inside. This is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the city's leading tourist attraction and a museum that documents the entire history of rock and roll - up until about 15 years ago. pIn short
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