About three thousand delegates from around China are in Beijing for this year's meeting of the National People's Congress.

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Inside the meeting place, delegates voted for the party's presidential candidate.

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South Africa's President Jacob Zuma Wednesday opened the World Economic Forum on Africa telling delegates that they were meeting in difficult times.

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Attending the meeting were delegates from Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Michigan and Wyoming.

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The news came as the political conference season was getting under way with Liberal Democrat delegates meeting in Bournemouth.

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Yet President Obama still considered the group important enough to pay a house call to its annual House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, in recognition of the fact that while the AMA may not be able to dictate the terms of what type of health overhaul can pass Congress, it could still help gum up the process.

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