Portal:Current events/2008 January 3

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• 2008 United States presidential election:
• Voters in Iowa go to the polls for the first caucus to determine presidential nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7170064.stm (BBC News)]
• Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Democratic caucus. [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/03/iowa.caucuses/index.html (CNN)]
• Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee wins the Republican caucus. [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/03/iowa.caucuses/index.html (CNN)]
• Senators Christopher Dodd and Joseph Biden withdraw their candidacy. [https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080104/ap_po/dodd (AP via Yahoo! News)]
• Benazir Bhutto assassination: President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf denies any role in Benazir Bhutto's death. [http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/pakistan.elections/index.html (CNN)]
• The price of gold reaches a new record of $865.35 per troy ounce in the a.m. London Gold Fixing, breaking the previous high of 21 January 1980. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210035134/http://lbma.org.uk/2008dailygold.htm (LBMA)]

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