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| Obama, Romney spar over economy during debate |
Washington, Oct 4: Republican challenger Mitt Romney put up a tough fight against President Barack Obama as the two sparred over jobs, taxes and healthcare in the first presidential debate.
US presidential debates are a time-honoured tradition, with the first nationally-televised presidential debate being held in 1960.
Taking the offensive right from the word go in the 90-minute... |
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| Obama still ahead in polls as Romney scores in debate |
Washington, Oct 4: President Barack Obama is still ahead in national polls even as critics across media and snap polls declared Republican challenger Mitt Romney the winner in their first presidential debate.
In the first of the three debates on Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, ahead of the November 6 poll, commentators suggested Romney’s performance was energetic and poised while t... |
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| US presidential debates over the decades |
Washington, Oct 4: US presidential debates are a time-honoured tradition, with the first nationally-televised presidential debate being held in 1960.
US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney held their first debate on Wednesday night in Denver, Colorado. The debate was hosted by veteran PBS journalist Jim Lehrer.
Xinhua said that debates were time-hono... |
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| US senate panel slams counterterror programme |
Washington, Oct 4: A US government programme designed to boost security after the 9/11 attacks has instead encroached on the personal lives of citizens while providing almost nothing of value, a scathing Congressional report said on Wednesday.
The report by the US senate permanent subcommittee on investigations finds more than 70 “fusion centers” created by the Department of... |
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| US targets possible suspects in Libya attacks |
Washington, Oct 4: The US is compiling information about possible militant targets in Libya suspected in the attack last month on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Detailed information about the suspects is being assembled by the US military’s top-secret Joint Special Operations Command, senior US military and counte... |
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| Spiking legal with moral? What a cocktail, says Pakistan daily |
Islamabad, Oct 4: A Pakistani judge granted bail to a brothel owner on the condition that she attends daily classes at a mosque for a month, a ruling that prompted a leading daily to note that “spiking the legal with the moral” was a “mixture too heady even for these times of most ingenious experiments”. “Pure in name and known for its abstinence, Pakistan must nevert... |
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| Afghan presidential poll to be held in 2014, says Karzai |
Kabul, Oct 4: The Afghan presidential election will be held in 2014 in accordance with the country’s constitution, President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday, denying reports that foreign troops' withdrawal and insecurity will suspend the poll. “I am convinced and the government as well as the people of Afghanistan are firmly determined to hold the presidential election in 2014 in accorda... |
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| Canadian jailed for pushing elderly man off cliff |
Toronto, Oct 4: A man in Canada has been sentenced to jail for nine months for throwing an elderly birdwatcher off a cliff in Canada. Joshua Skinner (30) pleaded guilty to assaulting Roy Prior (78) and Jason Easton, who came to Prior’s rescue, The Vancouver Sun reported. The Victoria provincial court heard Skinner, who was going through a breakup with his girlfriend, took two bottles o... |
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| China's heir apparent challenged to solve Tibet crisis |
Washington, Oct 4: Tibetan activists have asked Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the heir apparent to the country’s leadership, to find a lasting solution to the Tibet problem. In a report, the activists have challenged Xi to take “immediate steps towards a just and lasting resolution to the occupation of Tibet, or face greater international condemnation and domestic instability&r... |
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| Colombian president fine after successful cancer surgery |
Bogota, Oct 4: Surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ prostate was a complete success, his medical team said on Wednesday. Santos is recovering at Bogota’s Santa Fe Foundation hospital, where the operation was performed, urologist Felipe Gomez said. In his first remarks to reporters, Gomez said surgeons found what they expected to discover b... |
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| Raunchy video creates stir in US varsity |
London, Oct 4: A top American university has slammed an amateur porn model for performing a solo sex act in a law school’s library and filming it. The video was later posted on a college message board to be viewed by thousands. Ivy League Cornell Law School was dragged into the controversy after the blonde got raunchy on campus, The Sun reported on Thursday. The 43-minute duration sex-tape, ... |
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