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13.05.2008
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton scored a landslide Tuesday in West Virginia, a victory that did little to stop Barack Obama's march to the Democratic nomination but highlighted concerns about his ability to attract white, working-class swing voters.
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13.05.2008
PICHER, Okla. - No government money will be awarded for rebuilding any of the 114 homes levelled by a deadly tornado that tore through one of the country's most polluted areas, state and federal officials said Tuesday on a tour of the region.
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13.05.2008
MIANYANG, China - The 20-year-old waitress was camped outside a restaurant, a borrowed pink down jacket offering little protection against the dank spring night. She fought off sleep, fearing that an earthquake aftershock would bury her.
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13.05.2008
BEIJING - Within 24 hours of China's deadly quake, some 20,000 troops converged on the disaster area to help dig out the dead and injured, and military planes and trucks ferried in another 30,000 reinforcements.
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13.05.2008
JUYUAN, China - The high school students were settling in to afternoon arts and humanities classes when the massive quake struck. The school collapsed so rapidly - one floor "pancaking" atop another - that there was practically no time to escape.
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13.05.2008
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's government will give victims of an erupting volcano cash, tax relief and financial help rebuilding their farms and businesses in a bid to get them to return to their homes, the interior minister said Tuesday.
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13.05.2008
YANGON, Myanmar - Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city.
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13.05.2008
UTAPAO AIR BASE, Thailand - Flying into Yangon, U.S. marine Cpl. Bryan Hampson looked out the windows of his C-130 cargo plane at an expanse of marshland covered with a thick, brown blanket of water.
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13.05.2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese army has announced that troops will use force if needed to impose law and order in the country.
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13.05.2008
PITTSBURGH - Americans facing rising gasoline and diesel prices are cycling about, saddling up, singing out and, sometimes, going to extremes.
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