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• Activists stage dolphin die-in at Japanese embassy in US

  - 2008-09-03

  WASHINGTON AFP — Environmental and animal rights activists dressed as dolphins Wednesday staged a die-in in Washington to protest what they called the "horrific butchering" of thousands of dolphins by Japanese fishermen every year. Animal welfare activists accuse Japan of brutally slaughtering some 20,000 dolphins and small whales every...

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• Bush 'energized and excited' by McCain VP choice

  - 2008-08-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush said Friday he was excited by Republican White House hopeful John McCain's surprise choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. "I applaud Senator McCain for selecting Governor Palin. This decision is yet another example of why the American...

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• Bush declares emergency in Louisiana, Texas

  - 2008-08-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush on Friday declared a state of emergency in Louisiana and Texas in the face of killer Hurricane Gustav, freeing up aid from Washington three years after Hurricane Katrina. The move empowers federal authorities to lead all disaster relief efforts "to save...

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• US mulls scrapping nuclear pact with Russia

  - 2008-08-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — The White House said Thursday that it was considering scrapping a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia. "I don't think there's anything to announce yet, but I know that that is under discussion," spokeswoman Dana Perino said when asked whether...

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• US transferred foreign detainees for interrogation: NY Times

  - 2008-08-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US military secretly has sent more than 200 foreign detainees captured in Iraq and Afghanistan to be interrogated in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries over the past few years, The New York Times reported Thursday. The daily wrote that the program bears many similarities...

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• Obama's Biden balancing act

  - 2008-08-24

  WASHINGTON AFP — Barack Obama's call to political bruiser Joseph Biden is an admission that his own meteoric rise and crusade for change are undercut by inexperience and fragile bonds with blue-collar Democrats. The choice cemented the Democratic presidential ticket in the early hours of Saturday when the presumptive...

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• US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program

  - 2008-08-24

  WASHINGTON AFP — The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will become dependent on flights to the ISS by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft when...

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• Biden, a national security veteran

  - 2008-08-23

  WASHINGTON AFP — Barack Obama's running mate, Senator Joseph Biden, 65, brings decades of national security experience to the Democratic White House ticket, an area where the presumptive nominee is seen as lacking. As charman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, the new vice presidential nominee has met many...

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• Iraq-US pact puts troop pullout by 2011: negotiator

  - 2008-08-22

  BAGHDAD, AFP — Negotiators have finalised a deal which will see the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by 2011, ending an eight-year occupation, the top official in the Iraqi team told AFP. Under the 27-point deal all American combat troops will be withdrawn from Iraqi cities by...

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• Obama talks energy with man who funded 2004 attacks on Kerry

  - 2008-08-17

  WASHINGTON AFP — Barack Obama met Sunday with oil tycoon turned alternative energy advocate T. Boone Pickens, who funded devastating attacks on 2004 Democratic White House pick John Kerry. "He's got a lot longer track record than that," the current Democratic presidential candidate said when asked how it felt...

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