WASHINGTON: Bitter rivals in the 2008 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kept smiling at each other in a joint interview to CBS that Clinton said would have seemed “improbable” years ago. “It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. I’m going to miss her,” Obama said in a televised excerpt from the CBS “60 Minutes” programme that will air today. The interview, conducted at the White House on Friday, comes as Clinton prepares to step down and the Senate confirmation process moves forward for Senator John Kerry, Obama’s pick to replace her. “A few years ago it would have been seen as improbable (to have a joint interview) because we had that very long, hard primary campaign,” Clinton said in the excerpt. “And then President Obama asked me to be secretary of state and I said yes. And why did he ask me and why did I say yes? Because we both love our country.”
Northern Ireland flag protests continue
BELFAST: Northern Irish police were pelted by petrol bombs for the first time in almost two weeks on Friday after more protests at the removal of the British flag from Belfast City Hall. Masked youths clashed with police on the streets of east Belfast on an almost nightly basis for six weeks after local councillors voted to end a century-old tradition of flying the flag, enraging some pro-British loyalists. The worst violence had calmed in recent days and most demonstrations on Friday passed off without major incident. But later in the evening, some people hurled stones, bottles and petrol bombs at police. There were no arrests or injuries.
Canada plane found after Antarctic crash
WELLINGTON: Rescuers yesterday found the wreckage of an aircraft that went missing in Antarctica with three Canadians aboard, with officials describing the crash on the steep mountainside as “not survivable”. The Twin Otter disappeared in a remote mountain range on Wednesday while on a supply run from the South Pole to Italy’s Antarctic base at Terra Nova Bay. After efforts to reach the plane were frustrated for four days due to bad weather, helicopters late on Saturday reached the crash site in the Queen Alexandra mountain range. “The site of the crash is at a height of 3,900 metres (13,000 feet) at the northern end of the Queen Alexandra Range,” the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand said. Agencies
