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Top Democrat calls for audit of Iowa caucuses as problems delay final tally
WASHINGTON/MANCHESTER: Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez yesterday called for an audit of the Iowa caucuses after an array of problems delayed results from the party’s first 2020 presidential nominating contest and created uncertainty about their accuracy. The leader of
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Trump’s trial is over but the final verdict is not yet in
WASHINGTON: In Hollywood, it is called a false ending – where the story appears to be heading to a close but is not yet over. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial ended yesterday with a conclusion that was unsurprising – his
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Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank protest: medics
HEBRON: Israeli troops shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian who was taking part in a violent protest yesterday against US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, witnesses and medical officials said. Mohammed al-Hadad was the first Palestinian killed in unrest since Trump
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US Speaker Pelosi ripped up Trump’s speech because it ‘shredded the truth’
WASHINGTON: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi had not planned to tear up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech but decided to do so after she could not find a page “that didn’t have a lie on
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Canada urges Iran to send downed plane’s black boxes to France
OTTAWA: Canada pressed Iran yesterday to send the black boxes from a crashed airliner immediately to France where the data can be analysed, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement. Iran’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday it would
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Plane skids off runway in Istanbul, killing three and injuring 179
ISTANBUL: A Pegasus Airlines plane flying into Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport skidded off the end of the wet runway and broke into three pieces after landing yesterday, killing three people and injuring 179 others, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. Speaking
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Joe Biden says he’s ‘not going anywhere’ after poor Iowa showing
SOMERSWORTH: Former US Vice President Joe Biden vowed yesterday to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called the “gut punch” he took in Iowa, where partial results show the political veteran lagging in fourth place.
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Bernard Madoff is dying, seeks early release from prison
NEW YORK: Bernard Madoff is dying of kidney failure and has fewer than 18 months to live, and is seeking to end his 150-year prison sentence for masterminding what prosecutors have called the largest Ponzi scheme ever. In a court
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Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas dies at 103
Kirk Douglas, the cleft-chinned movie star who fought gladiators, cowboys and boxers on the screen and the Hollywood establishment, died yesterday at the age of 103, his son Michael Douglas said. “It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and
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Australia receives a bittersweet bushfires reprieve with floods, cyclone
SYDNEY: Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bushfires today, with heavy rain deluging many areas and a tropical cyclone forecast to hit the country’s northwest over the weekend. The Bureau of Meteorology issued severe thunderstorm
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