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USA: WASHINGTON: BOSNIAN ARMS EMBARGO DEBATE
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In a harsh rejection of U-S President Clinton's Yugoslavia policy, the U-S House of Representatives voted Tuesday, 298-128, to lift the Muslim arms embargo.
Last week the Senate approved the bill 69-29.
Both margins are...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON: MEXICO FINANCIAL RESCUE PACKAGE VOTE
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President Clinton's financial rescue package for Mexico received another blow Wednesday when opponents won a Congress vote ordering the president to hand over documents relating to the deal.
In just over a month, the U-S plan...
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USA: WOMEN MAY HOLD KEY TO WHITE HOUSE IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
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Who holds the key to the White House?
In this year's U-S Presidential race the answer apparently is women.
Thirty years ago the crucial swing voter was a white, male factory worker. In 1996, that has changed.
Both...
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USA: SENATE CONFIRM MADELEINE ALBRIGHT AS SECRETARY OF STATE (2)
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U-S Senators have voted 99 to zero to confirm Madeleine Albright as Secretary of State and Senator William Cohen as defence secretary.
Former ambassador to the U-N, Albright will be the first woman to hold the job and the...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON'S LEWINSKY TESTIMONY VIDEO LATEST (3)
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Public opinion polls in the United States suggest President Bill Clinton may be getting a slight popularity boost from the airing of his four-hour video taped grand jury testimony.
Network TV polls out on Tuesday show the...
Bloomberg
Who's Unfriending Whom?
Nov. 17 -- It's National Unfriend Day, so we did some unfriending for the people who are too shy to do so. (Source: Bloomberg)
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ISRAEL: MIDDLE EAT PEACE TALKS: REACTIONS
East and West Jerusalem - January 20-21 2000East Jerusalem - Jan 211. Wide shot of East Jerusalem2. Exterior Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre3. Set up shot Ghassan Khatib, Palestinian political analyst and former peace...
Bloomberg
Hillary Clinton Needs a Good Sparring Partner: Reid
Oct. 20 -- Mercury Managing Director Morris Reid discusses Hillary Clintons White House ambitions with Bloomberg's Mark Barton, Anna Edwards and Manus Cranny on Countdown. (Source: Bloomberg)
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FRANCE: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. LIONEL JOSPIN WINS FIRST ROUND
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Socialist Lionel Jospin's supporters are still celebrating Monday after their candidate's surprise win in the first round of the Presidential elections.
Brokers were however less enthusiastic.
The stock market dipped-...
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Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are following up last night's debate in Cleveland with more campaign appearances around Ohio. The AP's Mark Carlson reports.
HEADLINE: Economy, jobs top concern for Ohio voters
CAPTION: As Ohioans get ready for their primary election, the economy is getting lots of attention. Many local workers say their ideal presidential candidate will be able bring jobs...
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The AP's Beth Fouhy describes the impact of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton standing side by side in New Hampshire, which provided the image many Democrats needed to see after their long, bruising primary battle
HEADLINE: AP First Person: Obama, Clinton unite
CAPTION: The AP's Beth Fouhy describes the impact of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton standing side by side in New Hampshire, which provided the image many Democrats needed to see after...
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USA: ARGUMENTS CONTINUE IN CLINTON/PAULA JONES CASE
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Neither side was predicting which way a federal appeals panel would rule after Tuesday's arguments in the Paula Jones case.
Lawyers for Jones told the panel a lower judge was wrong in throwing out the case - but President...
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Russia - Preparations for Clinton's visit
President Bill Clinton has started his two day summit with Boris Yeltsin. His visit coincides with one of the worst political and financial crises in Russia in years. On the eve of Clinton's visit, the Russian parliament, or Duma,...
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UK: BIRMINGHAM: G8 SUMMIT: FINAL DAY
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Leaders of the world's most powerful nations ended their annual summit on Sunday with an appeal to Pakistan not to respond to India's underground nuclear tests.
Rumours have circulated around the Birmingham G-8...
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MIDDLE EAST: FATWA RULING
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In a clear message to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat not to make concessions to Israel, the highest Muslim Clerk in Jerusalem, Sheik Ekrema Sabri, issued a Fatwa or a religious ruling on Sunday.
The Fatwa forbids...
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Indonesia - Riots And Demonstrators In US Embassy
East Timorese students defiantly stretched a sit-in on U.S.
embassy grounds in Jakarta into a second night on Sunday. The
students, camped out since early on Saturday, were demanding U.S.
aid to free their jailed guerrilla leader hero....
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RUSSIA: YELTSIN WARNING TO US OVER POSSIBLE STRIKE AGAINST IRAQ
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President Boris Yeltsin warned U-S President Bill Clinton on Wednesday that the U-S may provoke a world war if the Americans use force against Iraq.
It was Russia's most critical statement so far concerning the possibility...
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UK: DOLLAR RISES AS TRADERS CELEBRATE CLINTON'S RE-ELECTION UPDATE
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The dollar rose on world currency markets Wednesday as traders celebrated Bill Clinton's victory in the US elections.
Analysts said Clinton's re-election combined with the retention of the Republican's majority in Congress...
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Hillary Clinton meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai
1. Wide of U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai sitting at photo-op
2. Close-up of Clinton
3. Close-up of Karzai talking
4. Wide of Clinton and Karzai meeting
U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton held...
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Iraq-Reactions to possible renewed US army strikes
People on the streets of Baghdad reacted on Sunday (25/1) to the
possibility that there could be renewed US military strikes
against Iraq because of President Saddam Hussein's refusal to
let UN weapons experts inspect certain sites.
WS...
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MIDDLE EAST: ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN CRISIS LATEST (2)
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has declared that his army is preparing for a regional war in case of violence initiated by the Palestinians.
The comment comes after Barak emerged from talks with his Foreign Defence...
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RUSSIA: REACTION TO PUTIN'S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
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Leading Russian politicians on Saturday welcomed the debut state of the union address by President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian leader had told them that only a strong, unified government with a clearly defined division of...
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Germany - Climate conference
A United Nations conference on global warming began in Bonn on
Wednesday (22/10), to prepare proposals for a world
environmental summit on reducing greenhouse emissions.
As a way of getting across the message that burning too much
fossil...
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Preview ahead of smoking ban for public places
1. Wide of Cafe la Habana
2. Wide of interior cafe
3. Various of people smoking inside restaurant
4. Close cigarette ashtray with lit cigarette burning
5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Rogelio Barrera, Retired teacher:
"I come here to read and...