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White House race has lost all credibility - American presidential race

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White House race has lost all credibility - American presidential race

EVEN if you leave aside the absurd fact that an American presidential race where the two frontrunners — Jeb Bush and Hilary Clinton — represent long-tailed dynasties that have already had their feet under the Oval Office table for two decades, the tremendous sums committed to succeeding President Barack Obama hardly show democracy, or at least American democracy, in an inspiring or reassuring light.

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FRESH from his unauthorised odyssey to Iraq, American teen Farris Hassan had a steak dinner and a night of seclusion, but he won't be going out with friends just yet, his mother said yesterday.

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MAYBE it was the time the taxi dumped him at the Iraq-Kuwait border, leaving him alone in the middle of the desert.

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Police investigating shadowy anarchist groups suspected of sending letter bombs to European Commission President Romano Prodi and other EU officials arrested a suspect in Sardinia today.

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