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  • `Pinguino` or `pinguina`? Argentina`s version of Clintons

    02/06/2007 1:16:50 PM PST · by Kitten Festival · 3 replies · 487+ views
    MercoPress (Uruguay) ^ | 6 Feb 2007 | Staff
    Argentina`s first couple, a power pair often compared to Bill and Hillary Clinton, won`t say whether it will be a his or hers candidacy in this year`s presidential election. President Nestor Kirchner boasts soaring approval ratings amid an economic recovery. His wife, Sen. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is also popular — and unlike Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, she established her own political career long before her husband became president. With both Kirchners doing well in the polls, they`ve been floating the idea that she should run to succeed him while he`s still in office. Cristina Kirchner flew off without her...
  • Youths set passenger bus alight in Paris

    10/22/2006 9:04:39 PM PDT · by Eurotwit · 77 replies · 1,840+ views
    The Age ^ | October 23, 2006 - 9:49AM | The Age
    A band of up to 30 youths forced passengers out of a bus in a southern Paris suburb in broad daylight, set it on fire and then stoned firefighters who came to the rescue, a police official said. Police cordoned off the neighbourhood in Grigny, in the Essonne region, after the attack, which came five days before France marks the one-year anniversary of the start of three weeks of fiery riots by poor suburban youths. District police chief Jean-Francois Papineau called Sunday's bus attack "deliberate". He said the vehicle was forced to stop at a road block at about 2...