and Olivia Rondonuwu
Reuters
JAKARTA — Traffic in Indonesia's capital snarls so badly during rush hour that even motorbikes face gridlock and to get ahead a group of commuters have taken up an extreme sport: cycling to work.
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The severe flooding is a major (...)
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Obama will be named this week as the (...)
BY accusing Barack Obama of playing the race card, John McCain hopes to shuffle the deck in a White House campaign that is scarcely begun, much less settled.
In so doing, the Republican made at least two political calculations.
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