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Obama ahead of Romney in poll
AFP, Washington
US President Barack Obama received a significant popularity bounce from his party convention last week and now leads the White House race by a small but clear margin, polls indicated Monday.
One polling expert working for Republican challenger Mitt Romney dismissed the convention bump as a "sugar-high" that would dissolve once the harsh realities of the president's failed economic policies have sunk back in.
But a CNN/ORC survey of likely voters gave Obama 52 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Romney, who also fell behind in August in terms of fundraising, the first time he has trailed in
French ex-PM
into police custody yesterday for questioning by magistrates investigating a suspected financial scam involving a luxury hotel network.
Villepin, who served under former President Jacques Chirac, as his chief-of-staff, foreign minister and ultimately prime minister from 2005 and 2007, was questioned about his links with a man sus-
No extradition of Iraqi VP: Turkey
Reuters, Istanbul
Turkey will not hand over Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces a death sentence against him in Baghdad, and he can remain in Turkey as long as he needs to, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday.
"I'll say it very clearly. We will be willing to host Mr. Hashemi as long as he wants, and we will not hand him over," Erdogan told a news conference in
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Reuters, Paris
French former Prime Minister and one-time presidential hopeful Dominique de Villepin was taken
Somalia MPs elect new president
AFP, Mogadishu
Lawmakers on Monday chose Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as Somalia's new president after the 56-year-old lecturer got the majority of votes in a second round run-off, beating outgoing president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
Sharif had earlier in the day sounded confident of victory in the vote, which UN brokers have billed as a major milestone in stabilising the war-torn nation.
Many sceptical observers had voiced fears that the vote would simply return the same corruption-tainted leadership but dark horse Mohamud, an academic and activist, won 190 votes against 79 for the outgoing president, who had been seen as the likely winner until late in the day.
Yemen minister survives car bomb
AFP, Sanaa
Yemen's Defence Minister Mohammed Nasser
Ahmed yesterday survived a car bomb attack that hit his convoy near the government headquarters, but 10 people were killed, including seven guards, a security official said.
The attack came a day after defence ministry news website 26sep.net said that second in command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
Saeed al-Shehri was killed in an army operation in