NEW YORK: Just as speculation rises over Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions, daughter Chelsea hinted that she too could enter politics. With ex-president Bill Clinton as her father and the former secretary of state and would-be first female president as mother, Chelsea has politics in her blood. So far, the 33-year-old has kept out of the family business. However, a foray into television journalism and frequent appearances on conference stages are rapidly increasing her prominence. Asked by NBC television if she would consider a political future, Chelsea Clinton said: “Right now I’m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative.” But, she added: “If at some point that weren’t true and I thought I could make a meaningful and measurably greater impact, I’d have to ask and answer that question.”
Italy’s Bersani meets Berlusconi
ROME: Italian centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani met his centre-right rival Silvio Berlusconi yesterday to discuss the election for the next president of the Republic, offering hope of a breakthrough in the deadlock left by elections in February. “It was a good meeting but we’re at the beginning,” Enrico Letta, deputy leader of Bersani’s Democratic Party, told reporters in parliament. He said the meeting had focused only on the election of the next president, not on any possible deal to form a government.
Bolshoi star sues theatre in attack row
MOSCOW: A star dancer at the Bolshoi ballet yesterday launched legal action against the venerable Russian theatre in a bitter row over interviews he gave following the acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, 39, is a big-haired media personality who has taken part in celebrity television shows and makes no secret of his dislike for the Bolshoi Theatre management led by long-term director Anatoly Iksanov. Yesterday, his lawyer Svetlana Volodina went to a Moscow court to demand the theatre cancel official reprimands against him that leave him at risk of being fired.
13 people shot dead in Serbian village
VELIKA IVANCA: Thirteen people, including a two-year-old child, were shot dead when a gunman went on pre-dawn killing spree in a tiny Serbian village, police said. The 60-year-old war veteran, identified as Ljubisa Bogdanovic, shot most of his victims in the head as they slept before trying to kill himself and his wife. He said the victims who died — six men, six women and the child — include Bogdanovic’s mother and his 42-year-old son.
Norwegian teen raped in Cape Town
CAPE TOWN: A Norwegian teenager has been raped and robbed at gunpoint by two armed men in South Africa’s top tourist city of Cape Town, police said yesterday. Police said the 19-year-old exchange student was with a South African male friend when they were attacked at the 300-metre-high Signal Hill. They were forced into their car and ordered to drive to a nearby residential area known as Summer Greens. “En route to Summer Greens, the female was raped by both suspects,” regional police spokesman Andre Traut said. The couple were also robbed of their personal effects. No arrests have been made yet. Agencies
