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Indiana a must-win state for Clinton campaign
US: BARACK OBAMA and Hillary Clinton woke up
yesterday morning in hotels just a block away from one another in
Indianapolis, appeared simultaneously for an hour on rival
television talk shows, spent the afternoon at separate events in a
town two hours away and were due to address the same dinner last
night. p
Cyclone claims at least 350 victims in Burma
BURMA: A cyclone killed more than 350 people
in military-ruled Burma (also known as Myanmar), ripping through
Rangoon (Yangon) and the Irrawaddy delta, where it flattened at
least two towns, officials and state media said yesterday. p
'Chastened' Brown insists he will not stand down
BRITAIN: THE BELEAGUERED British prime minister Gordon Brown has said he feels "chastened" after presiding over Labour's worst local election results for 40 years. p
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Tories greet election of new London mayor with celebration and trepidation
BRITAIN: Many believe Boris Johnson may see his
mayoral triumph as a step to greater things, writes
Frank Millar pRice urges Israel to lighten travel restrictions on Palestinians
MIDDLE EAST: US SECRETARY of state Condoleezza Rice yesterday pressed Israel to ease travel restrictions on Palestinians and called Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank "particularly problematic". pBeijing in talks with Dalai Lama's envoys
CHINA: CHINESE CADRES and envoys of the Dalai Lama held landmark talks yesterday on resolving the Tibetan crisis, but condemnation of the exiled Buddhist leader in Chinese media begs the question of whether the negotiations are a public-relations stunt to soothe international concerns ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August. pIraqi reporter hauled from taxi and shot dead by gunmen
IRAQ: Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi reporter yesterday after hauling her out of a taxi in Mosul, a notoriously violent city in northern Iraq where journalists are often targeted and live in fear of their lives. p$30m lost in Taiwan 'dollar diplomacy' scandal
TAIWAN: Middlemen entrusted with funds to promote Taiwan have made off with the money, writes Jane Rickards in Taipei pAustrian who imprisoned daughter 'was a tyrant to his family'
AUSTRIA: JOSEF FRITZL, who imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years in his cellar in Amstetten, Austria, was a "tyrant" to his family, his sister-in- law has said. pJapanese premier's troubles deepen ahead of G8 summit
JAPAN: Hopes that Yasou Fukuda would heal his
party's fortunes are fading fast, writes
David McNeill in Tokyo pArroyo on personal mission to tackle food crisis
PHILIPPINES: Philippine president's critics say her hyper- activism is stoking sense of crisis, writes Bruce Wallace in Manila pBoys in car had suffered violent deaths
BRITAIN: POLICE HAVE launched a double murder investigation after the severely injured bodies of two young boys, believed to be brothers, were found in a car near a beauty spot on the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland. pMalaysia proposes travel curbs for women
MALAYSIA: Malaysian women's groups reacted with outrage yesterday to a government proposal to impose restricti ons on woman planning to travel overseas on their own. pObama turns on his pastor in a display of blatant expediency
OPINION CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER GUESS IT'S time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia "race" speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was not just believed. It was hailed, celebrated, canonised as the greatest pronouncement on race in America since Lincoln at Cooper Union. pIn short
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