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• Former HP chief Fiorina in near certain 2016 bid

  29-03-2015 22:02
  
  Former Hewlett Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina said Sunday she is more than "90 percent" likely to seek the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. Fiorina, a former advisor to defeated Republican candidate John McCain in the 2008 White House race, told "Fox News Sunday" she was in the process of putting a team and campaign warchest together. Fiorina, 60, headed Hewlett Packard for six years until 2005, when she was forced to resign after the company�
  
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• Boehner, Heading to Israel, Slams Obama’s Treatment of Netanyahu

  29-03-2015 21:51
  
  The speaker’s comments follow White House criticism of Netanyahu for remarks the prime minister made just days before his reelection suggesting he no longer supported a Palestinian peace deal.
  
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• White House showed 'reprehensible animosity' to Netanyahu: Boehner

  29-03-2015 19:41
  
  The Obama administration has displayed "reprehensible animosity" towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, House Speaker John Boehner says. Netanyahu's recent election victory dramatically exacerbated a diplomatic crisis with Washington, bringing his thorny relationship with US President Barack Obama into sharp focus. In a bid to ramp up votes, Netanyahu had veered sharply to the right, vowing there would be no Palestinian state on his watch, promising to increase settlem
  
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• Indiana governor defends religious freedom law

  29-03-2015 19:30
  
  By Alina Selyukh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Indiana Governor Mike Pence on Sunday defended a new state law that opponents worry may support discrimination against gay people, saying he had no plans to add extra protections but would consider new suggestions from state legislators. Pence, speaking on ABC's "This Week," sought to counter criticism from protesters who have spilled onto the streets of Indianapolis and others, including some corporations, after signing the Religious Freedo
  
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• White House showed 'reprehensible animosity' towards Netanyahu

  29-03-2015 19:00
  
  The Obama administration has displayed "reprehensible animosity" towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, House Speaker John Boehner says. Netanyahu's recent election victory dramatically exacerbated a diplomatic crisis with Washington, bringing his thorny relationship with US President Barack Obama into sharp focus. In a bid to ramp up votes, Netanyahu had veered sharply to the right, vowing there would be no Palestinian state on his watch, promising to increase settlem
  
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• White House tells Iran to 'live up to rhetoric'

  29-03-2015 17:56
  
  The White House challenged Iranian negotiators on Sunday to "live up to their rhetoric" and strike a nuclear deal with world powers before a March 31 deadline expires. Iran and six world powers have reached tentative agreement on key parts of a deal sharply curtailing Tehran's nuclear ambitions, Western diplomats said in Lausanne, where negotiators are racing to nail down an accord by midnight Tuesday. The Iranians must "basically live up to their rhetoric, that they are not
  
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• O'Malley: Presidency 'not some crown' families should share

  29-03-2015 17:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Potential Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said Sunday that the country needs fresh perspectives for confronting its problems and criticized the prospects of the Clinton and Bush families yet again seeking the White House.
  
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• Battling nightmare infections: US CDC's plan to beat supberbugs

  29-03-2015 14:16
  
  By Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - With painstaking effort, a group of Chicago hospitals has managed to cut by half the number of infections caused by an especially deadly type of superbug. Now U.S. health officials want that kind of campaign to go national. The White House on Friday told the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to slash rates of infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria by 2020 as part of a plan to prevent patient deaths and curb
  
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• U.S. to submit plans to fight global warming; most others delay

  29-03-2015 12:13
  
  By Alister Doyle and Valerie Volcovici OSLO/WASHINGTON - The United States will submit plans for slowing global warming to the United Nations early this week but most governments will miss an informal March 31 deadline, complicating work on a global climate deal due in December. The U.S. submission, on Monday or Tuesday according to a White House official, adds to national strategies beyond 2020 already presented by the 28-nation European Union, Mexico, Switzerland and Norway. Together, they acc
  
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• Hillary Clinton’s darkest days detailed in new book about White House staff

  29-03-2015 12:00
  Those living inside the White House live under such a microscope that during their lowest moments, it has been hard for them to find privacy inside their own home.
  
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• Policeman honoured for hunting Boston Marathon bombers shot in face

  29-03-2015 07:30
  
  Washington, March 29 (IANS) A policeman honoured for helping pursue the terrorists who attacked runners and spectators at the 2013 Boston Marathon has been shot in the face and is in an induced coma, authorities said. Officer John Moynihan, 34, was wounded in Boston on Friday night during a routine traffic stop, Efe news agency cited police Commissioner William Evans as telling a press conference. On his part, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh condemned the attack and said "these acts of violence have no
  
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• Indian-American mother seeks return of her abducted children

  29-03-2015 06:06
  
  Washington, March 29 (IANS) Recounting her heartrending tale of woe, an Indian-American mother turned to US lawmakers for help to get back her two children allegedly abducted to India by her ex-husband six years ago. "Help me to make my voice heard in a way that shall be meaningful and allow me to be reunited with my children who need the love and nurturing of their mother," said Bindu Philips testifying before a House panel with a few other parents of abducted children. A subcommittee of the Ho
  
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• 'Dangerous accord' with Iran worse than Israel feared: PM

  29-03-2015 01:50
  
  Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced as "dangerous" a nuclear accord that world powers are negotiating with Iran, saying it goes beyond what his government had feared.
  
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