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Monday, June 15, 2009

Iran’s day of anguish

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Protester set fires and smashed store windows on Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities.

Anti-riot police lashed back and the regime blocked Internet sites used to rally the pro-reform campaign.

Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest the worst in a decade in Tehran as “not important.”

He said Friday’s vote was “real and free”and insisted the results showing his landslide victory were fair and legitimate.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Clintons join Biden to back Obama

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Hillary and Bill Clinton launched a campaign blitz of the blue-collar heartland that will decide the White House race, beseeching their supporters to make Barack Obama president.

The couple, making their first double-barrelled campaign appearance for Obama on Sunday, dominated Democratic politics for a generation, but now are supporting players, after reconciling Hillary Clinton's bitter nominating defeat.

"This election is too important to sit on the sidelines of history," said the former first lady, calling on her legions of working class and women voters to take up the banner of the man who beat her "It took a Democratic president to clean up after the last president George W. Bush, it's going to take a Democratic president to clean up after this President Bush," Clinton said in a working-class corner of swing-state Pennsylvania.

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