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Obama Campaign Looks To Push Turnout Over 50 Percent, Says Race Won't Be A Problem (U.S., 76 articles)
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The Democrats' seemingly unending battle to pick a nominee for the White House is taking a toll on the public, with growing numbers saying this year's presidential campaign is too negative and has lasted too long. In a statement put out by the Obama campaign this afternoon, deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand suggested the campaign hoped to push turnout in the general election above 50 percent. Last night the Obama campaign released a memo to superdelegates arguing that Hillary Clinton is not the strongest Democratic general election candidate against John McCain, as her campaign has claimed. The argument is based on the inclusion of the vote totals in Florida and Michigan, two states Clinton won, and the exclusion of the results from caucus states, where accurate vote counts are not kept. Florida and Michigan's delegates were stripped because the states held their primaries before the national party permitted; the candidates did not campaign in the two states, and in Michigan, Obama's name wasn't on the ballot. Hillary Clinton's campaign team issued a memo saying that " Senator Obama's failure to do well raises questions about his ability to win the large, swing states that Democrats need to win in November.
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Torch relay draws support for China (World, 41 articles)
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Olympic torch bearers dashed past sporadic protests Saturday as heavy security marked the Japanese leg of the world relay - streets lined by thousands of riot police and closely monitored by helicopters overhead. The global torch relay ahead of the Beijing Games in August has provoked protests against China's rights record, especially in Tibet, as well as patriotic rallies by Chinese who say the West has vilified Beijing unfairly. BANGKOK, Thailand Thai authorities beefed up security in Bangkok's historic center, deploying 2,000 police to protect the Olympic flame from protesters ahead of the torch relay Saturday.
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Israeli officials: Hezbollah has dramatically increased rocket range :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (World, 28 articles)
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" Today is a day of joy and happiness that our people were deprived of in the past century said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, adding that the Palestinians still have a long path toward statehood. Just after sunrise, the last column of tanks rumbled out of Gaza, passing through the Kissufim crossing into Israel. Israeli soldiers then raised the flag, removed from Gaza's military headquarters, on the Israeli side of the border.
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Al-Sadr looks like powerful peacemaker :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (World, 39 articles)
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The American military said 21 suspected gunmen were killed in Shiite militia strongholds late Tuesday, while Iraqi officials said 15 civilians were among the dead, including two women. In Baghdad, clashes between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen in the Sadr City district killed two men and wounded 18 other people, police said Wednesday. BAGHDAD The Iraqi government has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during last month's offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.
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North Korea helped Syria build nuclear reactor: U.S. (World, 27 articles)
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Syria's ambassador to the United States said Friday that the CIA fabricated pictures allegedly taken inside a secret Syrian nuclear reactor and predicted that in coming weeks the U.S. story about the site would implode from within. Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday they believe it was a secret nuclear reactor meant to produce plutonium, which can be used to make high-yield nuclear weapons. When the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday rolled out evidence to support allegations that North Korea had helped Syria build a nuclear reactor, officials said they had "low" confidence that Syria was developing the reactor to produce nuclear weapons.
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