Posted by Mai on 5th November 2008
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Obama elected 44th and first black President of US
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama wrote his name indelibly into the pages of American history Tuesday, engineering a social and political upheaval to become the country’s first black president-elect in a runaway victory over Republican John McCain.
Less than an hour after sealing his hold on the White House, Obama, the country’s 44th president, and his wife Michelle stepped onto the stage holding the hands of their two daughters at a massive victory rally in Chicago’s Grant Park.
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Posted by Mai on 3rd November 2008
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McCain no stranger to hopelessness
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
WASHINGTON – John McCain knows what hopelessness feels like.
He attempted suicide as a Vietnam prisoner of war. His young political career took a head-on blow in the Keating Five scandal. He’s gone three rounds with melanoma. His quest of the presidency has been pronounced dead more than once.
Hopelessness, McCain says on the campaign trail, is “an enemy who defeats your will.â€
“I felt those things once before,†he says of his years in Vietnam. “I will never let them in again.â€
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Posted by Mai on 7th October 2008
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China cancels series of military, diplomatic contacts with US
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned multibillion dollar US arms sale to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press.
Beijing has notified the US that it will not go forward with several senior level visits and other cooperative military-to-military plans, said Marine Maj. Stewart Upton, a Defense Department spokesman, on Monday.
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Posted by Mai on 5th October 2008
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Pope decries godless societies
Monday, October 6, 2008
ROME – Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people’s lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities.
Benedict celebrated a Mass in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to open a worldwide meeting of bishops on the relevance of the Bible for contemporary Catholics.
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Posted by Mai on 4th October 2008
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US experts: Tiny bits of melamine OK in most foods
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tiny traces of melamine, the chemical that has set off a global food safety scare, are not harmful in most foods, except baby formula, US government experts said Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday its safety experts have concluded that eating a minuscule amount of melamine – 2.5 parts per million – would not raise health concerns, even if a person ate food every day that was tainted with the chemical.
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Posted by Mai on 3rd October 2008
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Female green card applicants required to get STD vaccine
DALLAS (AP) — A new requirement that girls as young as 11 be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus before they can become legal U.S. residents is unfair, immigration advocates say.
The federal rule added Gardasil to the list of vaccinations that female immigrants ages 11 to 26 must get before they can obtain “green cards.’’ The series of three shots over six months protects against the strains of the human papillomavirus blamed for most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts. But the vaccine is one of the most expensive on the market and controversial.
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