For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might hold him back.
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Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio’s past
A suicide vehicle bomb tore through the parking lot of a military compound in an eastern Syrian city on Saturday, killing nine people in the latest in a series of blasts in recent months targeting security installations, the country’s state media reported.
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CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug gang killers dumped the headless bodies of 49 people on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said. …
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Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico
Utah Republicans denied U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch a clear path to a seventh and final term Saturday, forcing the 78-year-old lawmaker into a June primary with 37-year-old former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist. Hatch fell short of the outright nomination by fewer than three dozen votes from the nearly 4,000 delegates at the party convention.
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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch forced into primary fight
Israel’s newly elected opposition leader pledged in two interviews published Thursday to work for social reform, saying he would “restore dignity” to the country’s working class.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s yuan could become a reserve currency in future if the country undertakes further economic reform, International Monetary Fund managing director, Christine Lagarde, said in a speech on Sunday. The IMF chief, speaking to a gathering of leading Chinese policymakers and global business leaders, added that China needed a roadmap for a stronger, more flexible exchange rate system. …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economic policy priority is to maintain relatively fast growth, but Beijing cannot lower its guard against inflation risks, the head of the country’s top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, said on Sunday. “First of all, we need to maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth — development is the key for resolving all problems in China,” Zhang Ping, NDRC chief, said in a speech. …
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The Christian Science Monitor – As attacks on allied forces in Afghanistan continued Sunday in the wake of Quran burnings by American troops, US officials reaffirmed their commitment to the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and to preventing Al Qaeda advances in the country.
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US officials urge ‘stay the course’ in wake of Afghan violence
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Reuters – After stumbling with remarks suggesting he was indifferent to America’s poor, Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney was endorsed on Thursday by one of the country’s most famous wealthy businessmen – real estate mogul and reality television star Donald Trump.
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AP – On the same day that retired Air Force Lt. Col. Luke Weathers Jr. took his resting place among other war and military heroes, his real-life story as a World War II aviator played out on movie screens across the country.
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Tuskegee airman buried at Arlington
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