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AP – Israeli media are reporting that Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party has signed a coalition agreement with the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party.
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El Salvador’s former guerrillas, behind the bespectacled face of a former TV journalist, took a slim lead in presidential elections Sunday that threaten to oust conservatives who have ruled since a civil war, early official returns showed. Mauricio Funes, plucked from outside the ranks of the rebel group-turned-political party Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, would become the latest in a wave of leftist leaders to take power in Latin America. With 33 percent of the vote counted, Funes had 51 percent, compared with 49 percent for Rodrigo Avila of the ruling conservative Arena party, said Walter Araujo, president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.
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Written by on Sunday, March 15th, 2009 in Latest News.
Nevada sports books have picked North Carolina as a slight favorite to win the NCAA tournament this year, assuming point guard Ty Lawson is OK to play. Oddsmaker Dan O’Brien of Las Vegas Sports Consultants says the Tar Heels will likely get 5-2 odds in many books, or may be 2-1 favorites in casinos where many bettors have gambled on them.
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