Fed Cup: Czech Republic beat Russia to retain title

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsGbLN19bY2dcO_iEj7x-CLDSccA_ho1CsnyMILbGPnrC7Ge3_K6OYzqeC585SsNangEr3aSWBkAQVLTQ0llwnGvh8seXTHpbiCEiNONjXgO8qzCZfysKJkRXw7n0ITI6HwNEJNXqwjt4/s1600/_86699415_pliskova_strycova_epa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDsGbLN19bY2dcO_iEj7x-CLDSccA_ho1CsnyMILbGPnrC7Ge3_K6OYzqeC585SsNangEr3aSWBkAQVLTQ0llwnGvh8seXTHpbiCEiNONjXgO8qzCZfysKJkRXw7n0ITI6HwNEJNXqwjt4/s640/_86699415_pliskova_strycova_epa.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="story-body sp-story-body gel-pica" id="story-body" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #121212; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px 80.6563px 1.5rem 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="sp-story-body__introduction" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Defending champions the Czech Republic won a dramatic decisive doubles rubber against Russia to secure a fourth Fed Cup title in five years.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Resuming at 1-1, Maria Sharapova put Russia 2-1 up with a 3-6 6-4 6-2 win over Petra Kvitova.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karolina Pliskova beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 6-4 to level things.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the decider, Pliskova and Barbora Strycova beat Elena Vesnina and Pavlyuchenkova 4-6 6-3 6-2 to secure a 3-2 win for the Czechs.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The match lasted more than two hours, with Russia gaining an early advantage before the Czech pair fought back to secure victory.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's the first experience for me in the Fed Cup so I'm really happy how we made it and we both played really good," said world number 11 Pliskova.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It's definitely one of the biggest wins in my career. I was trying to focus on my serve and it was working so I'm really happy for that."</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Czechs have won the Fed Cup nine times overall, including Czechoslovakia's five before its split in 1993.</div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Strycova added: "I'm speechless, it was unbelievable."</div><figure class="sp-media-asset " style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; clear: right; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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Fed Cup: Czech Republic beat Russia to retain title

Defending champions the Czech Republic won a dramatic decisive doubles rubber against Russia to secure a fourth Fed Cup title in five years....

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Doting mother

<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the first case of its kind, a female chimpanzee has been observed caring for an infant with severe disabilities in the wild.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The young chimpanzee was discovered in <a href="http://www.tanzaniaparks.com/mahale.html" style="background: transparent; color: #008e9b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mahale Mountains National Park</a> in Tanzania. Known as XT11, she lived for 23 months. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">She was the sixth child of her 36-year-old mother, Christina.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkiDkO650iuX2jA8DzLt0cuiZgPoLUKR7G4njMXJK1E16WCp9JCk-MGBtExjSbGfTTiaRrK_8AdNj5yXUM7n1IAMnLLqWVP-e4gIYX7o5ifBCAjMoOKa87PWdUihFhLynLDMK3CgcRsPg/s1600/p037tyg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkiDkO650iuX2jA8DzLt0cuiZgPoLUKR7G4njMXJK1E16WCp9JCk-MGBtExjSbGfTTiaRrK_8AdNj5yXUM7n1IAMnLLqWVP-e4gIYX7o5ifBCAjMoOKa87PWdUihFhLynLDMK3CgcRsPg/s1600/p037tyg1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Physically, XT11 was similar to a captive chimpanzee that had symptoms similar to Down Syndrome.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It seems likely that XT11 only lived as long as she did because of the care provided by her mother, and that she would not have survived without it. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10329-015-0499-6" style="background: transparent; color: #008e9b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Reporting in the journal <em>Primates</em></a>, researchers say that the mother "responded to XT11's abnormal behaviours, limited abilities and needs".</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">She was not observed eating any plants, so she remained completely dependent on her mother's milk long after a baby chimp would usually have been weaned.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2Ly8PGVk1MLYwfg2Dp2jBrzr4yEWLnCDSKXaRFJBfpibDhMTi7cmtEZH2FwnW5I3P_s8LgWCg7hTnMRH36x4UoPPaY3N8u_UXRsBS6riqezdCpNdi8RlgYvHk4qcom4bZLQos7l5anNa/s1600/p037tylj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2Ly8PGVk1MLYwfg2Dp2jBrzr4yEWLnCDSKXaRFJBfpibDhMTi7cmtEZH2FwnW5I3P_s8LgWCg7hTnMRH36x4UoPPaY3N8u_UXRsBS6riqezdCpNdi8RlgYvHk4qcom4bZLQos7l5anNa/s1600/p037tylj.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We suspect that her feeding limitations were due to her lack of motor ability and that she might have suffered from a lack of nutrition because of her milk diet, at least in her latter life," the authors report.</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As well as her limited physical abilities, XT11 had an abdominal hernia on her stomach (see above), spinal damage and an extra, inactive finger on her left hand.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Her eyes looked empty, her mouth was often half open, and she was unable to sit without support.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">She was able to hold onto her mother's hair, but her feet did not have enough strength to grip, so she mostly dangled.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusvvFCVKuddWqhrWMTkVLQNl4A5IqBcdDr-7XA945_9dKkeB-AWROK497_ndzvZbY_chiN7v83gF6XkF8RWaaMJ-OtYqZp2NUTUs3qXd1WC6ZnmbM98cWRV_uWiUP8iLRUD6WNDjsdg2K/s1600/p037tyrc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusvvFCVKuddWqhrWMTkVLQNl4A5IqBcdDr-7XA945_9dKkeB-AWROK497_ndzvZbY_chiN7v83gF6XkF8RWaaMJ-OtYqZp2NUTUs3qXd1WC6ZnmbM98cWRV_uWiUP8iLRUD6WNDjsdg2K/s1600/p037tyrc.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em;"><span style="font-size: large;">Caring for a disabled infant forced Christina to change her behaviour. She stopped fishing for ants in trees, because she needed her hands free to carry XT11.</span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"The mother of a severely disabled infant probably experiences more stress than other mothers because she must provide intensive care for longer," the authors write.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Occasionally, XT11's 11-year-old sister helped out: she played with her, groomed and carried her.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"There were some cases where the mother spontaneously gave the infant to the elder daughter. This is quite unusual for a mother to do," says <a href="http://www.wrc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/nakamura/en/" style="background: transparent; color: #008e9b; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Michio Nakamura</a>, co-author of the study from Kyoto University, Japan. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"While the elder sister was taking care of the disabled infant, the mother climbed on a tree to feed on fruits," he told BBC Earth.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But when her sister had her own child, this extra care stopped.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">XT11's relatives were not allowed to groom or carry her, which is unusual. The mother may have understood that it would not be safe for others to carry her child, as they did not fully understand her needs.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cause of her death is unclear. It may have been due to complications brought on by her limited diet.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVDqawSzcsy_PHMK-sw3qF33ZUylisLlXzz5I_caTC_wT_dzPCL6_WsFhlaw1h2XXX6ILdl8jaWXYcVfKmS_5BJjFqLCjM41ymRyotfkn6rmIAQgcnCx6lVIEdg1RbFZgqiYB4IQT9_16/s1600/p037tyy6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVDqawSzcsy_PHMK-sw3qF33ZUylisLlXzz5I_caTC_wT_dzPCL6_WsFhlaw1h2XXX6ILdl8jaWXYcVfKmS_5BJjFqLCjM41ymRyotfkn6rmIAQgcnCx6lVIEdg1RbFZgqiYB4IQT9_16/s1600/p037tyy6.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although it is not uncommon for primates to be born with disabilities, only two chimpanzee infants with disabilities have been observed previously.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both were captive. They were neglected or rejected by their mothers, so humans helped to care for them. One died at 17 months: the other reached 24 months but only after receiving several blood transfusions.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That such care has now been witnessed in the wild, in our closest living relatives, hints that this behaviour has a long evolutionary history. Our common ancestor with chimpanzees may have displayed similar levels of care. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.1px; line-height: 1.55556em; margin-left: 82.6563px; margin-right: 20.6563px; margin-top: 1.55556em; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Our observation that the elder sister took care of the disabled infant might shed light on how non-maternal care to disabled individuals evolved," says Nakamura.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /><b><br /></b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Source by : BBC</b></span></div>

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France TGV crash: Children on board derailed train

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bUQ1aoGtwD4cfAg2anWdPAeKlNEYLry5YvlaZJ4xW2F8sJpi0pPz_AUx6S3GzpCxUXUXTj8gc-R4uJ3IFpMitNM-ea6qQOFlUl6Y9AaLjDWSxd5i48a0VNkkJkQ21vDAA9gFmM2RbfzN/s1600/_86697048_86697047.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bUQ1aoGtwD4cfAg2anWdPAeKlNEYLry5YvlaZJ4xW2F8sJpi0pPz_AUx6S3GzpCxUXUXTj8gc-R4uJ3IFpMitNM-ea6qQOFlUl6Y9AaLjDWSxd5i48a0VNkkJkQ21vDAA9gFmM2RbfzN/s1600/_86697048_86697047.jpg" /></a></div><div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Several children were on board when a high-speed train derailed during a test run in France, killing 11 people, the rail company SNCF has said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Five people are still missing and more than 30 were injured in the TGV crash near the eastern city of Strasbourg.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Investigators are trying to determine who the children are and why they were on board when access was meant to be restricted to technicians.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not clear whether children were among the dead.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"That's not a practice that the SNCF recognises," said company chief Guillaume Pepy. "A test train is a test train".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SNCF said it was possible that railway workers' children were on board when the train crashed, reportedly at around 350km/h (217mph).</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Excessive speed has been blamed for the crash, the first fatal accident since TGV trains began operating in 1981.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The train ended up partially submerged in a canal under a bridge.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_5BQU88RI6p68WpdQ-Tm9sWn89At8zLQdQpIoNb2w0jHCRLOIntndXMG91IEv1eBd6QWFhcgH3POJ772x0WatLn_7wko5_aWNuNn3vAidJQh1M0CX6nBdpYDqlrCrGZXd3YcNVRq9JTJ/s1600/_86697789_030132709-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_5BQU88RI6p68WpdQ-Tm9sWn89At8zLQdQpIoNb2w0jHCRLOIntndXMG91IEv1eBd6QWFhcgH3POJ772x0WatLn_7wko5_aWNuNn3vAidJQh1M0CX6nBdpYDqlrCrGZXd3YcNVRq9JTJ/s1600/_86697789_030132709-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeolL6_zZ6dbbsLRvu9tY5wKsG2WOuyAVrwqxA1lfZQZ4kexqZjSqns20tdtxqj-SSyYU-rNgHvwdvOMCGkVE-N0VRYT5Dh9ZbS7wshjte8PmXoiBZO0q8xI6pxMCAjigber_T8ukVOzm/s1600/_86697791_030132580-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeolL6_zZ6dbbsLRvu9tY5wKsG2WOuyAVrwqxA1lfZQZ4kexqZjSqns20tdtxqj-SSyYU-rNgHvwdvOMCGkVE-N0VRYT5Dh9ZbS7wshjte8PmXoiBZO0q8xI6pxMCAjigber_T8ukVOzm/s1600/_86697791_030132580-1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Source by : BBC</b>

France TGV crash: Children on board derailed train

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G20 summit: Russia Syria action 'raising refugee numbers'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5zlk9_0EBuIlltBw0Nw-NF7bOi-j2MiivtH4sNqqsteWyvu4fiJ74FmDyvqi4aUsl4zoc9Y9huLZFnCTFLBPVkHMIQgVPLapMRUzIQ8AxC8N1lwd8PBrZWHM9z4vDlaFYn0nDeZ5Swre/s1600/_86696833_86696832.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv5zlk9_0EBuIlltBw0Nw-NF7bOi-j2MiivtH4sNqqsteWyvu4fiJ74FmDyvqi4aUsl4zoc9Y9huLZFnCTFLBPVkHMIQgVPLapMRUzIQ8AxC8N1lwd8PBrZWHM9z4vDlaFYn0nDeZ5Swre/s640/_86696833_86696832.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.375;">Russian military action in Syria is increasing the number of refugees trying to reach Europe, European Council President Donald Tusk has said.</span><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 23px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking at a G20 summit in Turkey, Mr Tusk said Russia should focus more on Islamic State (IS) militants and not against "moderate Syrian opposition".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Russia has been carrying out air strikes it says target IS.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But many in the west fear the real aim is to keep Moscow's ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in power.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The G20 summit of world leaders is primarily focused on economic matters, but the two-day meeting in the coastal province of Antalya has been overshadowed by <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34825080" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the deadly attacks in Paris</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IS said it was behind the series of assaults that left 129 dead, and Mr Tusk said cooperation between the US and Russia in their action against IS in Syria was "crucial".</div><h2 class="story-body__crosshead" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">'New wave of refugees'</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We need not only more cooperation, but also more good will, especially from Russian action on the ground in Syria," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It must be focused more on Islamic State and not, because we cannot accept it, against the moderate Syrian opposition."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He warned the Russian operations would "only result (in) a new wave of refugees. And we have some signals that in fact it's started.''</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnn3zvHqWkwVWR9QspWGIhCSQ-XOrtZbFGQBob1Zmy2DUtfSpaghs_teo2ZSvrG1OVz7z2WIJeUxSrXGa7wnReLQy4qpcIjsBPQ_OTftibZniDONXHOIm6dQLj6-um7540DR3Bzo1tacg/s1600/_86696831_86696830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnn3zvHqWkwVWR9QspWGIhCSQ-XOrtZbFGQBob1Zmy2DUtfSpaghs_teo2ZSvrG1OVz7z2WIJeUxSrXGa7wnReLQy4qpcIjsBPQ_OTftibZniDONXHOIm6dQLj6-um7540DR3Bzo1tacg/s640/_86696831_86696830.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IS controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, two countries that have been major contributors to the unprecedented number of refugees arriving in Europe this year.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">US President Barack Obama said the killings in Paris were an "attack on the civilised world", pledging to "redouble" efforts to bring about an end to Syria's civil war.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He shared a handshake with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he has differed with on the way to resolve the conflict. The US and its allies insist Mr Assad must stand down as part of a political solution to the crisis.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The two men have been holding talks on the sidelines of the G20, television pictures showed.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin-top: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Source by : BBC</b></div>

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A third-term Democrat? Hillary Clinton battles history

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQSvLhMEu4eldvmRVXQy-lhyphenhyphendLqiOUoCNRzy6oV9iFgLApi_PkGODzhP1mD9wLfyrURFr-Q02JQrTlObhteXZLto0ngoXhDW3i7GOkIpubiFqI-0kE5jpL3itqWgCH1RuQCKh3pMfx2fY/s1600/BBn2b3R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGQSvLhMEu4eldvmRVXQy-lhyphenhyphendLqiOUoCNRzy6oV9iFgLApi_PkGODzhP1mD9wLfyrURFr-Q02JQrTlObhteXZLto0ngoXhDW3i7GOkIpubiFqI-0kE5jpL3itqWgCH1RuQCKh3pMfx2fY/s640/BBn2b3R.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span class="attribution" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.992px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0.8rem 0px 0px;">© Kevin Lamarque/Reuters</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.992px;"> Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) listens to U.S. President Barack Obama speak during a meeting with members of his cabinet at the White House in Washington Nov. 28, 2012.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.992px;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Hillary Clinton likes to tell voters what she’s not doing: running for President Obama’s third term.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">That’s to downplay what she is doing: asking voters to pick a Democrat to occupy the Oval Office for 12 consecutive years.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Americans have agreed to do that just once in the past 179 years, and those unprecedented reelections of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the last as World War II neared its end, helped spark a constitutional amendment on term limits. The last nominee to win a third consecutive term for their party was Republican George H.W. Bush in 1988. </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">But one of her biggest long-term challenges will be convincing a fickle electorate that her presidency would represent something different than the past eight years — while still warmly embracing Obama’s legacy to keep enthusiasm high among the president's core supporters who propelled him twice to White House victories.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Democrats should not only defend this record and protect this record, they should run on the record," Vice President Biden said in announcing last month that he would not be the one to do so.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Whether or not that strategy is followed, Clinton will be challenged to pull off what Al Gore couldn't in 2000 and John McCain couldn't in 2008. </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"She has a lot of fancy footwork to do,’’ said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University. "People typically get fatigue over one party and decide to give another party a try.’’ With Republicans taking aim at Obama's policy in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks, foreign policy could become particularly challenging for Clinton, Obama's former secretary of State who's long favored a more muscular approach in Syria.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Here's what may determine if she'll succeed:</div><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI Semilight', 'Segoe WP Semilight', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">History and demographics</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Of course, there are many reasons why history may be a bad guide for 2016. Clinton would be the first female nominee of either major party. As the wife of a former president and the nation’s former top diplomat, she is also one of the most well-defined candidates in presidential history.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">There are also major demographic shifts. In the last six elections, Republicans have won the popular vote just once, in 2004, as voter concerns about national security and the war in Iraq were tantamount. Since then, about six more percentage points of the white vote has disappeared, according to Census figures.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"They can’t win with George Bush’s coalition in 2016,’’ said says Joe Trippi, a Democratic strategist who was former Vermont governor Howard Dean’s campaign manager in 2004.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"All the arguments about 'well no one’s ever done it … all those things happened in a world that was literally a 90% white vote.’’</div><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI Semilight', 'Segoe WP Semilight', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Approval ratings</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Approval ratings of Clinton and Obama — specifically their peaks and valleys — have closely tracked for much of the past two years, according to an analysis from FiveThirtyEight. Though Clinton's numbers remained higher than Obama's throughout, the two have converged since she announced her candidacy.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">That’s not necessarily a good thing.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">An August Monmouth University poll found just 27% of registered voters would vote for Obama for a third term if he could run for one; among Democrats, 43% want someone else.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"Obama is exerting a significant drag on her,’’ said Larry Jacobs, a presidential politics expert at the University of Minnesota.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"That helps to explain why she’s trailing most of the Republican candidates,’’ he said.</div><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI Semilight', 'Segoe WP Semilight', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">The Obama economy</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Of all the issues, the economy will prove the most vexing for the 2016 candidates, and especially so for Clinton.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Obama is credited with bringing the nation out of the most severe financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the latest jobless rate has dipped to 5%. Still, Americans are very pessimistic about the future and wages remain stubbornly stagnant.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">According to a recent NBC/<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wall Street Journal</em> poll, just 27% of Americans feel they are getting ahead financially. Sixty-four percent say the country’s on the wrong track.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"She’s got to be careful not to overpraise Obama’s economic record but talk about building on it,’’ said Brinkley. Democrats have long reminded voters that they inherited an economic crisis. But it’ll be harder to blame Bush, who left office eight years ago, for it in this election.</div><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI Semilight', 'Segoe WP Semilight', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">The black vote</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Both of Obama’s elections relied heavily on unprecedented African-American turnout.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">With white working-class voters on the march to the Republican Party, Clinton will be hard pressed to recapture her party’s previous levels of support from this critical demographic. That means she needs African Americans, and possibly even as much as Obama did.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"If she starts trying to dilute the Obama presidency or reject programs like his historic trade pact, Obama could campaign for her but say 'I’m not going to the mat for her,’’’ said Brinkley.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">"To bring out the African American vote Barack Obama almost has to go on a frenzied campaign. Being lukewarm won’t do the trick.’’</div><h2 class="presto-h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI Semilight', 'Segoe WP Semilight', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.8rem; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.214; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1rem;">Republicans already have their talking points</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Clinton’s approach could be irrelevant.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Republicans have made clear they’ll link her to Obama every chance they get, particularly on Obamacare, given her record as first lady of trying, and failing, to pass a broad health-care overhaul.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">And given her status as Obama's first-term secretary of State, they’ll also emphasize criticism of the president's policies toward Russia, Libya and Syria. "Hillary Clinton has a Barack Obama problem,’’ says a memo written last year by the Republican outside group America Rising PAC.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Clinton is already showing how she plans to talk about Obama. </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In her stump speech, she says she wants to build on Obama’s successes, including Obamacare, by expanding its focus to prescription drug costs.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">In Saturday's second Democratic debate in Des Moines, Clinton said "I think President Obama deserves more credit than he gets for what he's gotten done in Washington despite the Republican oppression," repeating an applause line she often gives on the campaign trail. </div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">At a South Carolina forum last week, she also said  "I want to build on the progress he’s made, but I want to go further."</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">She's also put some distance between herself and a few of his policies. She recently said she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, and she supports a no-fly zone over parts of Syria. If Clinton wins the nomination, she'll face increasing pressure to outline how she'd differ from Obama in her approach to the Middle East.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">At the South Carolina  forum, Clinton saluted the president she hopes to succeed, but sought to present herself as having a different charter.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;">Obama's "principle challenge was saving us from the terrible financial crisis he inherited,’’ Clinton said. "For me this is about how do we have a New Deal. How do we give everybody new chances?"</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.992px; margin-bottom: 1.9rem; padding: 0px;"><b>Source by : msn</b></div>

A third-term Democrat? Hillary Clinton battles history

© Kevin Lamarque/Reuters  Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) listens to U.S. President Barack Obama speak during a meeting w...

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