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China Daily | Updated: 2014-08-13 07:42

United States

Clinton criticizes Obama policies

Hillary Rodham Clinton made her most aggressive effort yet to distinguish herself from her former boss, President Barack Obama, rebuking his cautious approach to global crises and saying the US doctrine has to go beyond "don't do stupid stuff". Clinton laid out a foreign policy vision ahead of a possible run for president in a weekend magazine interview. Asked for her organizing principle, she replied, "Peace, progress, and prosperity. This worked for a very long time".

Uganda

Leader wants new anti-gay law

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wants to issue a watered-down version of a divisive anti-gay law, stripping out tough penalties for consenting adults, a ruling party lawmaker said on Tuesday. The original version of the law passed in February punished gay sex with long prison terms and alarmed Western donors, some of whom withheld aid in protest. Uganda's constitutional court overturned it on a technicality this month. Homosexuality remains taboo in many African societies where some religious groups have branded it a corrupting Western import.

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