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    • WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (AFP) Dec 19, 2009
     US President Barack Obama returned to snow-covered Washington early Saturday after clinching an "unprecedented" 11th-hour deal on climate change in Copenhagen.

    Obama landed at Andrews Air Force Base just outside Washington around 1:10 am (0610 GMT).

    He had raced back to Washington to avoid the worst of a winter storm barreling through the northeastern United States that threatened to dump up to two feet (61 centimeters) of snow on the last weekend of the Christmas holiday shopping season.




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