MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina, January 17, 2012 Mitt Romney’s Republican rivals attacked his record as a private businessman on Monday night in the first of two debates before a pivotal weekend primary in South Carolina, where a Romney victory in next Saturday’s balloting could seal his lock on the Republican nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in the November general election. The President weighed down by a struggling American economy is seen as ...
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MOTIHARI/MUZAFFARPUR: Asserting that central funds did not belong to the Congress, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for their statement on central assistance to Bihar saying they had not done any special favour. "They should know that central funds do not belong to the Congress. It is hard-earned money of tax payers and people of the country," Advani said without naming Singh and Gandhi. "There is a ...
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The incoming prime minister, Viktor Orban, left, vowed Monday to defend Hungary from the ascent of a far-right party and its black-clad paramilitary branch, which have railed against the Roma community and called the capital “Jewdapest.” Mr. Orban, 46, the leader of Fidezs, the party that defeated the incumbent Socialists in first-round parliamentary elections on Sunday, said he was unhappy over the rise of the far-right party, Jobbik, which won 16.7 percent of the vote. “No radical party ...
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