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October 10th, 2009 SAMALKHA - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Saturday criticized opposition leaders for their comments on his visits to Dalit homes, saying they are isolated from the poor and downtrodden. Addressing his first election rally for the Congress in Haryana, Gandhi said: "'Hamara naara kisi tv key ad se nahin, balki gaon ki jhuggi se aaya hai.

October 7th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The media had thrust a Dalit "frame" on his visits to poor areas of the country, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Wednesday while stressing that he did not believe in the caste system and only saw people as human beings. "I see myself going to a human being's house.

October 7th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The media had thrust a Dalit "frame" on his visits to poor districts of the country, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Wednesday while stressing that he did not believe in the caste system and only saw people as human beings. I see myself going to a human being's house.

September 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday said his country wants to further bolster the existing strong bilateral ties with China and to enhance the strategic economic cooperation between the two countries. Pakistan "attaches high value to its relations with china and takes pride in the success story of China", Zardari said while speaking to Chinese ambassador in Pakistan Luo Zhaohui who visited the president here Saturday, Online news agency reported.

August 19th, 2009 US senator visits Vietnam at end of SE Asian tourHANOI, Vietnam — U.S. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia is visiting Hanoi on the last leg of a Southeast Asian tour.

August 15th, 2009 PRETORIA - The special relationship that India has with South Africa has been moulded by history, a shared vision, and participation in the struggle against oppression and injustice and the quest now for a better world, Indian High Commissioner Rajiv Bhatia said here Saturday. Bhatia was speaking at an Independence Day reception at the Indian High Commission here for local and expatriate Indians, including several dignitaries.

July 25th, 2009 SPIN METER: Few health exec visits to WH publicWASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama's promise of transparency on his health care overhaul, few White House meetings with medical industry representatives on a list recently released by his administration were made public at the time, an Associated Press review found. Obama, when asked about the meetings at his news conference Wednesday evening, said that "on the list of health care executives who've visited us, most of the time you guys have been in there taking pictures, so it hasn't been a secret." "Frankly, these have mostly been at least photo sprays where you could see who was participating," he added.

July 23rd, 2009 Angelina Jolie visits displaced IraqisBAGHDAD — Angelina Jolie on Thursday visited a settlement for displaced Iraqis in northwest Baghdad in her role as a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR. The actor met four families whose members said their children could not go to school and they could not afford to pay for medical treatment, the U.N.

June 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The governor of the US state of South Carolina, who had been missing for a week, finally turned up Wedensday and admitted to an affair with an Argentinian woman. Mark Sanford, a Republican, vanished June 18 without telling either his family or staff where he was headed.

June 9th, 2009 Bill Gates visits World Health OrganizationGENEVA — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is visiting the World Health Organization to discuss the agency's work on polio, AIDS and the swine flu outbreak. Spokeswoman Fadela Chaib says Gates is seeing WHO Director-General Margaret Chan and other senior officials for a "working meeting" Tuesday.

June 5th, 2009 Obama visits Buchenwald site, lays roseWEIMAR — President Barack Obama says the Buchenwald concentration camp "is the ultimate rebuke" to those who deny the Holocaust. Obama on Friday visited the Nazi-era camp where 56,000 people died.

May 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will hold his first talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month on the Middle East peace process, the White House said Tuesday. Obama will meet with Netanyahu at the White House on May 18 followed by visits from Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on May 26 and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on May 28.

May 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on President Pratibha Patil Tuesday on the eve of the fifth and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. 'Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on President Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.

April 29th, 2009 Iran's defense minister visits VenezuelaCARACAS, Venezuela — Iran's defense minister has held talks with officials in Venezuela seeking to strengthen military ties. Iran's official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday that Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammed Najjar met with Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez, who is also the acting defense minister.

April 28th, 2009 Doing the math on Obama's 100 daysPresident Barack Obama marked his 100th office on Wednesday, but it's hardly the only digit that matters to the new administration. Some highlights of Obama's first 100 days, by the numbers: $3.6 trillion — Total spending in Obama's proposed federal budget for 2010.