Obama Wins Clinton Group’s Backing
By rights, a group that helped elect Bill Clinton president and counts Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of its leaders should be hostile territory for Barack Obama. But members of the Democratic Leadership Council seem ready to embrace Obama rather than risk squandering an opportunity for victory this fall.
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Ex-Khmer Minister In Genocide Trial
The 82-year-old has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Maoist regime's four-year rule in the late 1970s.
He is one of five former leaders of the Khmer Rouge being detained by the UN-backed tribunal.
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Mugabe Seeks AU’s Backing
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was welcomed by his peers Monday, strolling into an African Union summit where leaders were unlikely to criticize him despite Western calls for them to condemn his widely discredited re-election.
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Four Russians Killed In Sudan Plane Crash
A cargo plane burst into flames and crashed shortly after takeoff in Khartoum on Monday, killing four Russian crew and narrowly missing homes in Sudan's fourth fatal air accident in two months.
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Mongolia’s Ruling Party Wins Election
Mongolia's ruling party won a tough parliamentary election contested over how to share more of the country's natural wealth, according to preliminary results Monday.
The ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party which also governed the country when it was a Soviet satellite won 41 seats in Sunday's vote, said Battulga Bataa, chairman of the General Election Commission.
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Aussie Envoy’s Life Threatened
The Australian government has repeated its request for the Fijian government to provide better security for its diplomatic staff in the capital, Suva.
It follows a death threat against Australia's top diplomat in Fiji, the third in recent weeks.
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