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As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues high-level talks with Mexico's leaders this week, her comments about responsibility in the U.S.-Mexico drug trade have struck a chord with officials familiar with U.S. anti-drug efforts.

Mexican federal police have been deployed openly in Ciudad Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas.

Clinton said the United States' "inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border" was a major contributor in Mexican violence along the border.  She went on to say that the United States has "a co-responsibility."

In an interview Wednesday on "American Morning" with CNN anchor John Roberts, former Drug Enforcement Agency special agent Robert Strang talked about the three-pronged approach needed to curb drug use in America and the need to bust distribution rings. Strang is also CEO of Investigative Management Group.

The following transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity:

John Roberts, CNN anchor: Everybody's blaming Mexico for [the U.S. drug trade], but the secretary of state yesterday said, 'Hey, the United States shares a lot of the blame because of the pent-up demand here, the insatiable demand for drugs.' Do you agree with her?  Watch Clinton say, "We have to do a better job" Â»

Robert Strang, former DEA special agent: Let's face it, the average first drug use is 12 years old in our country. That means kids that are in the sixth grade are trying drugs for the first time. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, all these drugs are coming across the border because we demand them. We have the cash to pay for them, and we really are pretty much the No. 1 consumer in the world for these drugs.

Roberts: Is the United States doing enough to try to curb demand? The Office of National Drug Control Policy, I don't remember much coming out of it during the Bush administration, and I haven't seen anything come out of it in the Obama administration.

Strang: We're trying all the time. I'm on the board for D.A.R.E. America, and that is teaching kids about the dangers of drugs and violence in schools. And constantly, we're trying to get money federally for this program and police officers go into the school. They teach the kids. It's a wonderful program in those trouble years, the fourth, fifth and sixth grade especially, and we need to have a little bit more money in this area.

amFIX: React to Strang's comments about U.S. anti-drug effort

There's three things, John: It's treatment, it's enforcement and it's education. And it's like a three-legged stool. If all three things don't work, it's going to fall down. So, we can send all of the agents in the world down to the border. We can seize all the coke, heroin, methamphetamine that we want. If we don't have treatment on demand, and if we're not educating our kids in our country about the dangers of drugs, the problem's going to grow.

Roberts: When you see the Department of Homeland Security prepared to spend these hundreds of millions of dollars on border security, what do you think?

Strang: I'm happy that they're doing something. This is a small piece of the enforcement operation. The best thing to do is like the case that we saw three weeks ago, when the DEA announced 750 arrests involving 250 cities between Mexico and the United States, mostly in the U.S., this huge distribution network.

Because when you dismantle those networks that constantly are putting drugs from the cartels to the street, when you can put those guys in jail, when you take their assets, then you have an impact.  Watch how drugs from Mexico enter U.S. Â»

Roberts: But would you like to see them take some of that money, and you know, they take, I think, what, $700 million, and they throw it at the border. Would you like to see them take some of that money, maybe even just a fraction of it, and throw it into prevention programs?

Strang: Absolutely. Instead of going to some of the financial institutions, I'd like to see it go for the drug problem. I'd like to see enforcement, treatment and prevention. I'd like it to be evenly divided, and I really think we could have an impact on the problem. We've got to look at this a different way. And I think that it's a combination of these things, and we're moving in that direction. Let's hope that we make some headway here.

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GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- Palestinian militants declared Sunday that they would stop attacks on Israel for a week, a statement that came hours after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a unilateral cease-fire in the country's assault on Hamas in Gaza.

An Israeli soldier holds up an Israeli flag after leaving Gaza on Sunday.

The Palestinians demanded that Israel remove all troops from Gaza within the week, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha said from Egypt.

The agreement appears to cover all Palestinian armed factions, not only Hamas.

"We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip," Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official in Syria, said on Syrian TV. "And we demand that Israeli forces withdraw in one week and that they open all the border crossings to permit the entry of humanitarian aid and basic goods for our people in Gaza."

There is no mutual agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians -- each side has made its own unilateral declaration of a cease-fire.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, called for the cease-fire to hold so aid could get into Gaza.  Watch how a family in Gaza is coping with the violence Â»

"We hope that it continues and that the situation calms down and that humanitarian aid delivery begins immediately to our people," he said at a summit in Egypt.  Watch how a reporter finds Gaza in chaos Â»

During 22 days of fighting, more than 1,200 people have died, all but 13 of them Palestinians.  Watch clean-up efforts in Gaza City Â»

The Palestinians and Israel continued to skirmish for several hours Sunday after Israel said it was stopping its offensive against Hamas. Palestinians fired at least 19 rockets into Israel on Sunday -- including at least two after the Palestinian cease-fire declaration, according to Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld. At least three people were lightly wounded. Israeli military aircraft retaliated, firing missiles and destroying a rocket launcher, a military spokesman said.

Shortly before the rocket attacks, Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Israeli forces in northern Gaza, the military said. Troops returned fire.

Separately, Palestinian medical sources said 23 bodies were pulled from rubble in Gaza.    Watch doctors tend to wounded civilians Â»

Olmert said Sunday the Israeli offensive had achieved its goals but that the Israel Defense Forces reserved the right to respond to any Palestinian violence against Israelis.

"IDF forces are in the Gaza Strip and many other units, which are surrounding Gaza from all sides, are closely observing every corner and listening to every whisper, ready for any response that they might receive from their commanders if and when the violations continue, as they have this morning," he said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, before the announcement of the Palestinian cease-fire.

Israel pulled some troops out of the Palestinian territory as it called a halt to its operation against Hamas, but others remained.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN they would be there for a matter of days, not weeks.

International leaders are in the region for talks on the crisis. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French President Nicolas Sarkozy hosted a summit Sunday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, bringing together leaders from Europe and the Middle East.

Olmert told the gathering that, if the cease-fire holds, "the government of Israel has no intention to stay in the Gaza Strip. We are interested in leaving Gaza as soon as we can."

He said Israel would "continue to do whatever is possible to prevent the humanitarian crisis in Gaza," and expressed sorrow for the deaths of innocent civilians. "It wasn't our intention to fight them or to harm them, to hurt them or to shoot at them," he said.

German Premier Angela Merkel underscored the international community's preferred outcome in a news conference in Egypt: "The two-state solution is the only solution we have."

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic, which  holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, later in Jerusalem.

A top aide to Barack Obama said the president-elect would move swiftly to work on the Middle East after he is sworn in on Tuesday.

"The events around the world demand that he act quickly, and I think you'll see him act quickly," David Axelrod told CNN. But he refused to promise Obama would name a Middle East special envoy "on day one."

Israel said it launched the offensive in Gaza to stop the firing of rockets -- primarily the short-range homemade Qassam rockets -- from the territory into southern Israel by Hamas fighters.

"We welcome any alleviation of violence, with cautious optimism and hope that these declarations of cease-fire will lead to the end of fighting," said Charles Clayton, national director of World Vision Jerusalem, an aid group. "We call on all parties to stop attacks, including Hamas' rocket strikes against Israel, and refrain from further hostilities."

He called for "unhindered and safe humanitarian assistance to the desperate civilian families of Gaza who have lost their homes and businesses and are struggling amid shortages of food, supplies, healthcare and fuel."

He further called for an end "to the 18-month blockade of the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza," saying it has "devastated the economy, halted services, and rendered the people of Gaza entirely dependent on humanitarian aid."

CNN's Arie Bell and Karl Penhaul contributed to this report.

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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria's ailing president has broken two months of silence to assure his countrymen that contrary to speculation he is alive and intending to return to power soon.

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua this week gave his first media interview since being admitted to a hospital in Saudi Arabia in late November where he is being treated for acute pericarditis, an inflammation of tissue around the heart.

His absence has created a power vacuum in Africa's most populous country, as Yar'Adua has not formally handed his presidential duties to Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan.

In a phone interview with the BBC from his hospital bed Tuesday, President Yar'Adua said he was recovering from his treatment.

"At the moment I'm undergoing treatment. I'm getting better from the treatment. I hope that very soon there will be tremendous progress to allow me to get back home," he said.

"As soon as my doctors discharge me I'll return to Nigeria to resume my duties," he added.

Yar'Adua's interview coincided with demonstrations in the nation's capital, Abuja, where protesters demanded a constitutional order on his absence and "evidence about his true state of health," Voice of Nigeria reported.

The Nigerian Senate is seeking also information on the president's whereabouts and health.

It passed a resolution Tuesday asking Nigeria's "secretary to the government of the federation" to brief it on Yar'Adua's status, Voice of Nigeria reported. The Senate had earlier considered sending a delegation to Saudi Arabia.

"In arriving at its decision, the Senate expressed concern that there had been no formal communication to the National Assembly" -- as required by the nation's constitution -- "(to) empower the vice president to act and perform the functions of the president," Voice of Nigeria reported.

Some senators also pushed for an amendment to a law stating that a presidential letter to the National Assembly about an absence is optional, the news organization reported.

Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe told CNN he has not spoken to Yar'Adua since he left for Saudi Arabia. But he also said he has no need to talk to the president while he is recovering.

Yar'Adua's illness was diagnosed in November after he complained of chest pain following prayers at a mosque in Abuja. He was taken to King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre in Jeddah, where he had his last checkup in August, his doctor said.

He said at the time he did not intend to resign while in Saudi Arabia.

In addition to internal discord over its missing president, the oil-rich nation has faced some international heat after one of its citizens allegedly attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day.

Nigeria was then cited as a country from which enhanced security measures would be enforced for passengers on U.S.-bound flights. A senior U.S. administration official said Nigeria fell into the U.S. Transportation Security Administration category of "state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest."

Another notable worry for the government is its handling of militants who have wrestled with the government over oil. On Tuesday, police announced that four Shell contractors had been abducted. Hundreds others have been kidnapped over recent years.

CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report.

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text: ailing

text: president

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text: broken

text: two

text: months

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text: assure

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text: of

text: tissue

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text: heart

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text: power

text: vacuum

text: in

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text: most

text: populous

text: country

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text: handed

text: his

text: presidential

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text: interview

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text: BBC

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text: announced

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text: Shell

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text: been

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text: Hundreds

text: others

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text: been

text: kidnapped

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text: CNN

text: 's

text: Christian

text: Purefoy

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: what country is the president from?

answer: Nigeria

text: Nigeria

question: what has his absence done?

answer: created a power vacuum in Africa's most populous country,

text: created a power vacuum in Africa's most populous country,

question: What has his absence created?

answer: a power vacuum

text: a power vacuum

question: What did Nigeria's president say?

answer: "At the moment I'm undergoing treatment. I'm getting better from the treatment. I hope that very soon there will be tremendous progress to allow me to get back home,"

text: "At the moment I'm undergoing treatment. I'm getting better from the treatment. I hope that very soon there will be tremendous progress to allow me to get back home,"

question: Who said he is alive and recovering from treatment?

answer: President Yar'Adua

text: President Yar'Adua

question: What has created a power vacuum in the African country?

answer: His absence

text: His absence

question: What do the Senate and Protesters want?

answer: a constitutional order on his absence

text: a constitutional order on his absence


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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The highly fortified International Zone in Baghdad came under fire the same day that Vice President Joe Biden paid a surprise visit, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.

Vice President Joe Biden talks to the media Tuesday in Baghdad's fortified International Zone.

Biden was not injured, according to CNN's Chris Lawrence, who was traveling with the vice president. But at least one round seems to have landed in the U.S. Embassy grounds, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill said.

The zone houses the embassy and many government buildings. Lawrence said he heard the blasts but saw no damage.

CNN's Cal Perry said he heard four loud "booms." Warning alarms were sounded, and security was stepped up in the International Zone, which is informally known as the Green Zone.

It is not clear what weapons were fired or if Biden was near the location where the rounds hit. For security reasons, reporters traveling with the vice president are not allowed to report his location.  Watch as Lawrence reports on the attack Â»

A U.S. military spokesman said he could confirm only that one round hit, and he said it did not land in the International Zone.

"Initial reports indicate one round of indirect fire impacted near the International Zone, not in it," Lt. Col. Phillip Smith, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, told CNN.

But Hill told reporters that some sort of projectile landed in the east end of the embassy complex. He said the projectile was the reason for a "duck-and-cover" alarm that journalists traveling with Biden heard during a briefing by top U.S. officials in Baghdad.

The alarm sounded intermittently throughout almost the entire 35-minute briefing by Hill and the top U.S. general in Iraq, Ray Odierno, Lawrence said.

Odierno and Hill did not seem concerned, he said. No one jumped up or tried to run out of the building. They paused if they were talking when the alarm sounded, and picked up when it stopped.

There was an "all-clear" as the briefing ended.

Hill said it is kind of unusual to get this type of attack now. He said they used to happen 10 to 12 times a day, but now are few and far between.

Biden's visit was widely reported on Iraqi television, Perry said.

He is in Iraq to meet with the country's leaders and visit U.S. troops, his office said.

Journalists on the plane with the vice president were not told where they were going until after they were on the way.

Biden was due to sit down with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, as well as Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and other officials.

He was greeted at the airport at dusk by Gen. Odierno, Ambassador Hill and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.  Watch Biden arrive in Iraq, greet troops Â»

He flew by helicopter to the International Zone. Biden, Hill, Odierno and Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg, who is traveling with Biden, then went into a meeting.

They did not speak to reporters.

This is Biden's third trip to Iraq this year, after visits in July and January.

"The president has asked the vice president to provide sustained, high-level focus from the White House on Iraq, and this trip is part of that mission," the White House said in a statement issued as Biden arrived.

The United States is less than a year away from its goal of withdrawing all combat troops from Iraq.

Hill has said the next 12 months are "very critical" to establishing security in Iraq, but the goal of withdrawing most U.S. troops by August 2010 is "absolutely achievable."

Biden said Odierno is "optimistic" that Iraqi forces will be ready in time to allow U.S. withdrawals to go ahead as planned, according to Lawrence.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

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question: What is not clear?

answer: weapons were fired or if Biden was near the location where the rounds hit.

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(CNN)  -- Peruvian President Alan Garcia left Singapore on the eve of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit after reports surfaced that an air force officer was accused of spying for the Chilean government, Peru's foreign minister said Saturday.

"We do consider, from the information that have received, that we need an explanation and sanctions to those involved," Foreign Minister Jose Antonio GarcÃa Belaunde told CNN en Espanol Saturday.

He added that he does "not have all the elements of the story here in Singapore," but confirmed that the suspect is "under arrest and in the hands of the judicial power in Peru."

Garcia and his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet had planned to attend a workshop Saturday with other world leaders, but the Peruvian leader canceled his agenda to return to Lima. However, there were no plans for a bilateral meeting between leaders from both countries, Belaunde said, dismissing reports that there had been such a session scheduled for Sunday.

Belaunde said he has spoken to Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez Amunategui about the case, but that his counterpart would not have information until he returns to Santiago.

Meanwhile, a Chilean spokeswoman dismissed the espionage allegations.

"Chile does not spy," Carolina Toha, spokeswoman for Chile's Interior Ministry. "Chile takes international relations as a serious matter."

APEC's 21 member nations -- ranging from Thailand to United States, Chile to China -- represent more than half of the world's economic output. The forum sees its goal as "facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region."

Chile and Peru have a history of animosity, having fought in the War of the Pacific from 1879 to 1883. Hard feelings linger to this day.

The two nations nearly came to war in 1975 when left-wing Peruvian leader Juan Velasco, who was backed by Cuba, wanted to invade Chile, which was led by right-wing Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The invasion was called off and Velasco was deposed in a coup a short while later. Tensions rose again when Peru discovered a Chilean spy mission, but war was averted.

More recently, tensions between the two South American nations flared in December after the revelation that Peru's top army general said at a party that Chileans in neighboring Peru would be sent back in coffins or body bags.

At the time, Peruvian Defense Minister Antero Flores-Araoz said relations between the two nations will be repaired, calling the incident involving Peruvian Gen. Edwin Donayre "a bump in the road." Bachelet had made similar assertions.

Also last year, the World Court agreed to look at an issue concerning Peruvian claims to a disputed maritime area.

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(CNN) -- Despite Hillary Clinton's landslide victory in Kentucky, Barack Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama's share of the state's 51 delegates was enough put him over the threshold, according to CNN estimates.

Obama is expected to pick up at least 14 delegates in Kentucky, and by CNN estimates,  that will give him 1,627 of the 3,253 pledged delegates at stake in all of primaries and caucuses.

Obama will also pick up a win in Oregon, CNN projects, giving him the larger share of the state's 52 delegates.

Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, said getting the pledged delegate majority was an "important milestone," but not the end of the trail.

Neither candidate is expected to reach the  2,026 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.

That means the race is likely to be settled by "superdelegates" -- party leaders and officials who will cast votes at the Democratic convention in August.

Speaking in Iowa, where he won the first-in-the-nation caucuses, Obama told supporters, "it was in this great state where we took the first steps of an unlikely journey to change America."  Watch Obama say he's in reach of the nomination Â»

"The skeptics predicted we wouldn't get very far. The cynics dismissed us as a lot of hype and a little too much hope. And by the fall, the pundits in Washington had all but counted us out. But the people of Iowa had a different idea," he said.

Obama continued to look to the general election, focusing his attacks as he has for the past week on Sen. John McCain, while commending Clinton for "her courage, her commitment and her perseverance."

Obama said McCain's policies don't represent change.

"This year's Republican primary was a contest to see which candidate could out-Bush the other, and that is the contest John McCain won," he said.

McCain's camp accused Obama of launching "the tired old political attacks of a typical politician, not the 'new politics' he's promised."

"Without a doubt, Barack Obama is a talented political orator, but his naive plans for unconditional summits with rogue leaders and support for big tax hikes on hardworking families expose his bad judgment that Americans can ill-afford in our next president," spokesman Tucker Bounds said in a statement.

After Kentucky's results came in, Clinton thanked her supporters for handing her a win "even in the face of some pretty tough odds."

"Tonight we have achieved an important victory," she said in Louisville.

"It's not just Kentucky bluegrass that's music to my ears. It's the sound of your overwhelming vote of confidence even in the face of some pretty tough odds."  Watch Clinton vow to keep going Â»

Clinton beat Obama across all age groups, income groups and education levels in Kentucky.

Eighty-nine percent of Tuesday's voters in Kentucky were white, according to the exit polls. Among them, Clinton won 72-22 percent. Nine percent of the voters were African-American and they overwhelmingly broke for Obama, 87-7 percent.

The exit polls from Kentucky also suggest a deep division among Democrats.  Watch how Clinton's win could affect the race Â»

Two-thirds of Clinton's supporters there said they would vote Republican or not vote at all rather than for Obama, according to the polls.

Forty-one percent of Clinton supporters said they'd cast their vote for McCain, and 23 percent said they would not vote at all.

Just 33 percent said they would back Obama in the general election, according to the polls.

Those numbers are even worse for Obama than in West Virginia one week ago, where 36 percent of Clinton voters said they would back him in the fall.

Obama on Tuesday downplayed the idea that his party will have trouble unifying once there is a nominee.

"Some may see the millions upon millions of votes cast for each of us as evidence that our party is divided, but I see it as proof that we have never been more energized and united in our desire to take this country in a new direction," he said.

"More than anything, we need this unity and this energy in the months to come, because while our primary has been long and hard-fought, the hardest and most important part of our journey still lies ahead."

Obama leads Clinton in the number of states won and in the popular vote in the primary and caucus contests this campaign season, but he has been careful not to declare victory in the Democratic contest.

Obama doesn't have enough delegates to capture the nomination outright; Clinton still has a chance, if a slight one, to win the nomination if enough of the roughly 800 superdelegates were to back her.

"I'm going to make [my case] until we have a nominee, but we're not going to have one today, and we're not going to have one tomorrow, and we're not going to have one the next day," Clinton said Monday in Kentucky.

She argues that she leads in the popular vote, but her argument is debatable.

For Clinton to claim such a lead, primary states but not caucus states -- which Obama mostly won -- would only be counted, plus the popular vote totals in Florida and Michigan.

Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates for scheduling their primaries too early, in violation of Democratic Party rules. Obama's name wasn't on the Michigan ballot, and he received no votes in that state's contest.

Clinton also argues that she's won the states that she contends would stack up stronger against McCain in the general election.

"The states I've won total 300 electoral votes. If we had the same rules as the Republicans, I would be nominee right now," she said. "We have different rules, so what we've got to figure out is who can win 270 electoral votes. My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes."

CNN's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.

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text: getting

text: the

text: pledged

text: delegate

text: majority

text: was

text: an

text: important

text: milestone

text: but

text: not

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: the

text: trail

text: Neither

text: candidate

text: is

text: expected

text: to

text: reach

text: the

text: delegates

text: needed

text: to

text: win

text: the

text: Democratic

text: nomination

text: That

text: means

text: the

text: race

text: is

text: likely

text: to

text: be

text: settled

text: by

text: superdelegates

text: party

text: leaders

text: and

text: officials

text: who

text: will

text: cast

text: votes

text: at

text: the

text: Democratic

text: convention

text: in

text: August

text: Speaking

text: in

text: Iowa

text: where

text: he

text: won

text: the

text: first

text: in

text: the

text: nation

text: caucuses

text: Obama

text: told

text: supporters

text: it

text: was

text: in

text: this

text: great

text: state

text: where

text: we

text: took

text: the

text: first

text: steps

text: of

text: an

text: unlikely

text: journey

text: to

text: change

text: America

text: Watch

text: Obama

text: say

text: he

text: 's

text: in

text: reach

text: of

text: the

text: nomination

text: Â

text: The

text: skeptics

text: predicted

text: we

text: would

text: n't

text: get

text: very

text: far

text: The

text: cynics

text: dismissed

text: us

text: as

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: hype

text: and

text: a

text: little

text: too

text: much

text: hope

text: And

text: by

text: the

text: fall

text: the

text: pundits

text: in

text: Washington

text: had

text: all

text: but

text: counted

text: us

text: out

text: But

text: the

text: people

text: of

text: Iowa

text: had

text: a

text: different

text: idea

text: he

text: said

text: Obama

text: continued

text: to

text: look

text: to

text: the

text: general

text: election

text: focusing

text: his

text: attacks

text: as

text: he

text: has

text: for

text: the

text: past

text: week

text: on

text: Sen.

text: John

text: McCain

text: while

text: commending

text: Clinton

text: for

text: her

text: courage

text: her

text: commitment

text: and

text: her

text: perseverance

text: Obama

text: said

text: McCain

text: 's

text: policies

text: do

text: n't

text: represent

text: change

text: This

text: year

text: 's

text: Republican

text: primary

text: was

text: a

text: contest

text: to

text: see

text: which

text: candidate

text: could

text: out

text: Bush

text: the

text: other

text: and

text: that

text: is

text: the

text: contest

text: John

text: McCain

text: won

text: he

text: said

text: McCain

text: 's

text: camp

text: accused

text: Obama

text: of

text: launching

text: the

text: tired

text: old

text: political

text: attacks

text: of

text: a

text: typical

text: politician

text: not

text: the

text: new

text: politics

text: he

text: 's

text: promised

text: Without

text: a

text: doubt

text: Barack

text: Obama

text: is

text: a

text: talented

text: political

text: orator

text: but

text: his

text: naive

text: plans

text: for

text: unconditional

text: summits

text: with

text: rogue

text: leaders

text: and

text: support

text: for

text: big

text: tax

text: hikes

text: on

text: hardworking

text: families

text: expose

text: his

text: bad

text: judgment

text: that

text: Americans

text: can

text: ill

text: afford

text: in

text: our

text: next

text: president

text: spokesman

text: Tucker

text: Bounds

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: statement

text: After

text: Kentucky

text: 's

text: results

text: came

text: in

text: Clinton

text: thanked

text: her

text: supporters

text: for

text: handing

text: her

text: a

text: win

text: even

text: in

text: the

text: face

text: of

text: some

text: pretty

text: tough

text: odds

text: Tonight

text: we

text: have

text: achieved

text: an

text: important

text: victory

text: she

text: said

text: in

text: Louisville

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: just

text: Kentucky

text: bluegrass

text: that

text: 's

text: music

text: to

text: my

text: ears

text: It

text: 's

text: the

text: sound

text: of

text: your

text: overwhelming

text: vote

text: of

text: confidence

text: even

text: in

text: the

text: face

text: of

text: some

text: pretty

text: tough

text: odds

text: Watch

text: Clinton

text: vow

text: to

text: keep

text: going

text: Â

text: Clinton

text: beat

text: Obama

text: across

text: all

text: age

text: groups

text: income

text: groups

text: and

text: education

text: levels

text: in

text: Kentucky

text: Eighty

text: nine

text: percent

text: of

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: voters

text: in

text: Kentucky

text: were

text: white

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: exit

text: polls

text: Among

text: them

text: Clinton

text: won

text: percent

text: Nine

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: voters

text: were

text: African

text: American

text: and

text: they

text: overwhelmingly

text: broke

text: for

text: Obama

text: percent

text: The

text: exit

text: polls

text: from

text: Kentucky

text: also

text: suggest

text: a

text: deep

text: division

text: among

text: Democrats

text: Watch

text: how

text: Clinton

text: 's

text: win

text: could

text: affect

text: the

text: race

text: Â

text: Two

text: thirds

text: of

text: Clinton

text: 's

text: supporters

text: there

text: said

text: they

text: would

text: vote

text: Republican

text: or

text: not

text: vote

text: at

text: all

text: rather

text: than

text: for

text: Obama

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: polls

text: Forty

text: one

text: percent

text: of

text: Clinton

text: supporters

text: said

text: they

text: 'd

text: cast

text: their

text: vote

text: for

text: McCain

text: and

text: percent

text: said

text: they

text: would

text: not

text: vote

text: at

text: all

text: Just

text: percent

text: said

text: they

text: would

text: back

text: Obama

text: in

text: the

text: general

text: election

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: polls

text: Those

text: numbers

text: are

text: even

text: worse

text: for

text: Obama

text: than

text: in

text: West

text: Virginia

text: one

text: week

text: ago

text: where

text: percent

text: of

text: Clinton

text: voters

text: said

text: they

text: would

text: back

text: him

text: in

text: the

text: fall

text: Obama

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: downplayed

text: the

text: idea

text: that

text: his

text: party

text: will

text: have

text: trouble

text: unifying

text: once

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: nominee

text: Some

text: may

text: see

text: the

text: millions

text: upon

text: millions

text: of

text: votes

text: cast

text: for

text: each

text: of

text: us

text: as

text: evidence

text: that

text: our

text: party

text: is

text: divided

text: but

text: I

text: see

text: it

text: as

text: proof

text: that

text: we

text: have

text: never

text: been

text: more

text: energized

text: and

text: united

text: in

text: our

text: desire

text: to

text: take

text: this

text: country

text: in

text: a

text: new

text: direction

text: he

text: said

text: More

text: than

text: anything

text: we

text: need

text: this

text: unity

text: and

text: this

text: energy

text: in

text: the

text: months

text: to

text: come

text: because

text: while

text: our

text: primary

text: has

text: been

text: long

text: and

text: hard

text: fought

text: the

text: hardest

text: and

text: most

text: important

text: part

text: of

text: our

text: journey

text: still

text: lies

text: ahead

text: Obama

text: leads

text: Clinton

text: in

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: states

text: won

text: and

text: in

text: the

text: popular

text: vote

text: in

text: the

text: primary

text: and

text: caucus

text: contests

text: this

text: campaign

text: season

text: but

text: he

text: has

text: been

text: careful

text: not

text: to

text: declare

text: victory

text: in

text: the

text: Democratic

text: contest

text: Obama

text: does

text: n't

text: have

text: enough

text: delegates

text: to

text: capture

text: the

text: nomination

text: outright

text: Clinton

text: still

text: has

text: a

text: chance

text: if

text: a

text: slight

text: one

text: to

text: win

text: the

text: nomination

text: if

text: enough

text: of

text: the

text: roughly

text: superdelegates

text: were

text: to

text: back

text: her

text: I

text: 'm

text: going

text: to

text: make

text: my

text: case

text: until

text: we

text: have

text: a

text: nominee

text: but

text: we

text: 're

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: one

text: today

text: and

text: we

text: 're

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: one

text: tomorrow

text: and

text: we

text: 're

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: one

text: the

text: next

text: day

text: Clinton

text: said

text: Monday

text: in

text: Kentucky

text: She

text: argues

text: that

text: she

text: leads

text: in

text: the

text: popular

text: vote

text: but

text: her

text: argument

text: is

text: debatable

text: For

text: Clinton

text: to

text: claim

text: such

text: a

text: lead

text: primary

text: states

text: but

text: not

text: caucus

text: states

text: which

text: Obama

text: mostly

text: won

text: would

text: only

text: be

text: counted

text: plus

text: the

text: popular

text: vote

text: totals

text: in

text: Florida

text: and

text: Michigan

text: Florida

text: and

text: Michigan

text: were

text: stripped

text: of

text: their

text: delegates

text: for

text: scheduling

text: their

text: primaries

text: too

text: early

text: in

text: violation

text: of

text: Democratic

text: Party

text: rules

text: Obama

text: 's

text: name

text: was

text: n't

text: on

text: the

text: Michigan

text: ballot

text: and

text: he

text: received

text: no

text: votes

text: in

text: that

text: state

text: 's

text: contest

text: Clinton

text: also

text: argues

text: that

text: she

text: 's

text: won

text: the

text: states

text: that

text: she

text: contends

text: would

text: stack

text: up

text: stronger

text: against

text: McCain

text: in

text: the

text: general

text: election

text: The

text: states

text: I

text: 've

text: won

text: total

text: electoral

text: votes

text: If

text: we

text: had

text: the

text: same

text: rules

text: as

text: the

text: Republicans

text: I

text: would

text: be

text: nominee

text: right

text: now

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: have

text: different

text: rules

text: so

text: what

text: we

text: 've

text: got

text: to

text: figure

text: out

text: is

text: who

text: can

text: win

text: electoral

text: votes

text: My

text: opponent

text: has

text: won

text: states

text: totaling

text: electoral

text: votes

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Paul

text: Steinhauser

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: who is winning

answer: Oba

text: Oba

question: Who captured the majority of pledged delegates?

answer: Barack Obama

text: Barack Obama

question: Which state is Clinton winning?

answer: Kentucky,

text: Kentucky,

question: what is the majority

answer: pledged delegate

text: pledged delegate

question: Who are Kentucky voters more likely to back?

answer: Hillary Clinton's

text: Hillary Clinton's


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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- The "bongs" of London's Big Ben stopped on Saturday for up to six weeks as the clock's chimes were shut down for maintenance work.

The London landmark is undergoing maintenance work ahead of its 150th anniversary in 2009.

At 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) the bells of the landmark Westminster clock tower were silenced for the final phase of a program of work ahead of the clock's 150th anniversary in 2009.

An hour later, Londoners and tourists saw the unusual spectacle of workers abseiling down the south clock face to clean and repair it. Both hands of the clock were turned to 12.

An electric system will keep the clock moving while work takes place on the mechanism.

The stoppage will be the longest suspension of Big Ben since 1990. There were previous stoppages of both the hour and quarter bells in 1956 and 1934.

The 96 meter (315 ft) clock tower of Britain's parliament is popularly known as Big Ben, although the name actually refers to the 13.5 tonne Great Bell inside. E-mail to a friend

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question: What stopped on Saturday?

answer: The "bongs" of London's Big Ben

text: The "bongs" of London's Big Ben

question: What have been shut down for maintenance work?

answer: The "bongs" of London's Big Ben

text: The "bongs" of London's Big Ben

question: When is the anniversary of Big Ben?

answer: 2009.

question: What is meant by bong?

answer: clock's chimes

text: clock's chimes

question: How long is the maintenance for?

answer: up to six weeks

text: up to six weeks

question: How long are the chimes off?

answer: up to six weeks

text: up to six weeks

question: What will be the longest suspension of Big Ben since 1990?

answer: six weeks

text: six weeks