Reuters World News Highlights

BOSTON – Mitt Romney’s campaign told his Republican presidential rivals yesterday they could not catch him and nudged them to quit the race even though he failed to deliver a knockout blow in the biggest round of nominating contests.
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PARIS – France voiced scepticism yesterday that a planned revival of talks between six world powers and Iran would succeed, saying Tehran still did not seem sincerely willing to negotiate on the future of its contested nuclear programme.
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MOSCOW – Opponents of Vladimir Putin branded his election victory an insult to the Russian people yesterday, trying to inject life into protests which risk fading after his return to the Kremlin.
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NEW YORK – Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim retained his position atop Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires yesterday with an estimated worth of $69 billion, placing him ahead of Bill Gates at $61 billion and Warren Buffett at $44 billion.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan – Six British soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, British military officials said yesterday, taking the British toll to 404 since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban.
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TOKYO – Three months after Japan’s March 11 triple disaster, a long-time expert on the country arrived in Tokyo to research a book he intended to entitle “Rebirth of a Nation.”
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CARACAS – Venezuela’s opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles will stick to his non-confrontational campaign despite violence at a recent rally and constant government taunts, his chief strategist says.
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BOTUM SAKOR, Cambodia – It was once the unspoiled jungle home for tigers, elephants, bears and gibbons. But today Botum Sakor National Park in southwest Cambodia is fast disappearing to accommodate a much less endangered species: the Chinese gambler.
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MOSCOW – A female suicide bomber has killed at least five policemen by blowing herself up at a traffic police post in the restive Dagestan region of southern Russia.