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Tunisia's president likely to get 5th term

Oct. 25, 2009
Tunisia's president was expected to achieve another landslide victory in elections Sunday despite timid measures by authorities to let the nascent opposition have its say. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is running for a fifth, five-year term, after taking power in a...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler