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Losing ground in Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:52 PM PDT
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in WestervilleBEDFORD HEIGHTS/BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (Reuters) - The race for president focused squarely on the battle for working-class votes on Wednesday, as Republican Mitt Romney scrambled to make up ground on Democratic President Barack Obama in the crucial battleground state of Ohio. On a day when the rivals held dueling events across the state, Romney mixed empathy for the unemployed - at one point, he said his "heart aches" for the jobless - with attacks on Obama's trade policy toward China. Foreign trade is a sensitive subject in a state where thousands of manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. ...


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Nigeria says its push on Boko Haram Islamists paying off
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:51 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Nigeria's "robust" approach to neutralizing a threat posed by Islamist sect Boko Haram using military force, holding indirect talks with the group and improving education in the north is paying off, the Nigerian president said on Wednesday. Boko Haram, which wants to carve out an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has been blamed for more than 1,000 deaths since its insurgency intensified in 2010. The United States has designated three of Boko Haram's senior members as terrorists. In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the U.N. ... Full Story
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Clinton says U.S. to ease Myanmar import ban
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:49 PM PDT
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U.S. Secretary of State Clinton reads her notes during Security Council meeting in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Myanmar President Thein Sein on Wednesday that the United States would take steps to ease the U.S. ban on imports from the country, a major boon to the Southeast Asian nation as it emerges from years of political and economic isolation. "In recognition of the continued progress toward reform and in response to requests from both the government and the opposition, the United States is taking the next step in normalizing our commercial relationship," Clinton told Thein Sein in a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. ...


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Florida governor puts execution on hold, orders mental health exam
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:34 PM PDT
Reuters - TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Florida's governor on Wednesday asked a panel of psychiatrists to determine whether a convicted murderer scheduled to be executed next month understands why he has been sentenced to death. Governor Rick Scott ordered the October 16 execution of John Errol Ferguson be put on hold and agreed to let a three-doctor panel decide if the death row inmate is sane and aware he is about to be executed by lethal injection. ... Full Story
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Insight: In U.S. soldier's death, a window into Afghan insider killings
Wed,26 Sep 2012 05:07 PM PDT
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Handout photo of U.S. Army specialist AndersWASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - In the weeks before his death, 21-year-old Mabry Anders had grown increasingly worried that he might not come home from Afghanistan. The Army specialist was battling insomnia and would send brief, worried messages back to his family. "He talked to me in the day, which would be in the middle of his night," his father, Dan Anders, said. "He didn't sleep. He was just worried." There were good reasons for concern. ...


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Google exec questioned over Brazil election video
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:59 PM PDT
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File photo of Google Inc's logoSAO PAULO (Reuters) - Google Inc's most senior executive in Brazil was questioned by police and released on Wednesday after the company failed to take down a YouTube video attacking a mayoral candidate in alleged violation of electoral law. Google is appealing the charges against Fábio José Silva Coelho, who was brought in by federal police in São Paulo and released after he agreed to cooperate with the case, according to a police statement. "Google is providing clarification to legal authorities," a spokesman for the company in São Paulo said on Wednesday. ...


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University of California settles pepper spray suit for $1 million
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:51 PM PDT
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A University of California Davis police officer pepper-sprays students during their sit-in at an "Occupy UCD" demonstration in DavisDAVIS, California (Reuters) - University of California officials have agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a pepper-spraying incident last year that came to symbolize law enforcement aggression against anti-Wall Street protesters, attorneys said on Wednesday. Video of the confrontation, which showed seated student protesters being pepper-sprayed by campus police at the University of California campus at Davis, was replayed widely on television and the Internet, sparking outrage among faculty and activists. ...


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Arizona man arrested for fake grenade launcher stunt
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:37 PM PDT
Reuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) - Police have arrested an Arizona man who filmed his 16-year-old nephew walking city streets dressed in a sheet and carrying a fake grenade launcher in an apparent bid to test police responses after the Denver theater shooting, authorities said on Wednesday. Michael David Turley, 39, was arrested on Monday over the making of the video, in which an unidentified narrator says he aims to "find out how safe I really am" in Phoenix following the July Denver shooting that killed 12 people and wounded 58. ... Full Story
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Sudan, South Sudan to resume oil exports, no wider deal
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:31 PM PDT
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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir sits with South Sudan's Cabinet Affairs Minister Deng Alor at the meeting table at the Sheraton hotel in Addis AbabaADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan reached a border security deal on Wednesday that will restart badly needed oil exports, but failed to solve the other main conflicts left over when Africa's largest country split last year. The deal, reached after more than three weeks of negotiations, will throw both economies a lifeline. It should for now prevent any resumption of the kind of fighting that broke out along the border in April - the worst violence since South Sudan seceded in July 2011 under an agreement that ended decades of civil war. ...


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Texas-Mexico border bridge reopens after "safety" scare
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:23 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas, have reopened one of the city's two border crossings to Mexico which had been closed for several hours due to safety concerns, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said. The agency said local authorities reopened Bridge II, which handles commercial traffic to and from the city of Piedras Negras, Mexico, at 4:20 p.m. local time. The commercial crossing was shut down nearly six hours earlier over safety concerns which local news media said were prompted by the discovery of a "suspicious device. ... Full Story
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Libya's congress gives new PM ultimatum to name government
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:23 PM PDT
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Libya's Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagur speaks at a news conference in TripoliTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya's ruling congress on Wednesday said it threatened to dismiss the new prime minister if he fails to name his new Cabinet by October 8. A spokesman for the congress told reporters the ultimatum was given after Prime Minister-elect Mustafa Abushagur asked to extend the period in which he can form a government by 10 days. Abushagur, elected by the congress on September 12, was due to present his government list to the national assembly for approval by September 28. ...


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Obama flubs line on jobs, says he's "channeling" Romney
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:16 PM PDT
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U.S. President Barack Obama greets supporters at the end of his election campaign rally at Kent State UniversityKENT, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama flubbed a line during a campaign speech on Wednesday, mistakenly saying he wanted to export U.S. jobs, before correcting himself and jokingly blaming Republican rival Mitt Romney. In the middle of remarks to an enthusiastic crowd in the battleground state of Ohio, Obama was describing a five-point plan to boost employment and lay a "stronger foundation" for the U.S. economy when he stumbled at a crucial word. "I want to see us export more jobs," Obama said, before catching himself quickly and saying, "Export more products. ...


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Pennsylvanians give governor low marks on Sandusky probe: poll
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:08 PM PDT
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett makes remarks concerning Penn State University during a news conference near State College PennsylvaniaPHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Most Pennsylvania voters give Governor Tom Corbett fair or poor marks for his investigation, as state attorney general, into reports that former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing children, a poll showed on Wednesday. Only 17 percent of the state's voters think Corbett, who served as Pennsylvania's top prosecutor for two terms before becoming governor in 2011, did a good or excellent job investigating what became a scandal that shook college football, according to the Franklin & Marshall College Poll. ...


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Clinton tells Myanmar president U.S. to ease import ban
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:08 PM PDT
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U.S. Secretary of State Clinton reads her notes during Security Council meeting in New YorkNEW YORK (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Myanmar President Thein Sein on Wednesday that the United States would take steps to ease the U.S. ban on imports from the country, a major boon to the Southeast Asian nation as it emerges from years of political and economic isolation. "In recognition of the continued progress toward reform and in response to requests from both the government and the opposition, the United States is taking the next step in normalizing our commercial relationship," Clinton told Thein Sein in a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. ...


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Gay couple sues after photo used in Colorado campaign mailers
Wed,26 Sep 2012 04:01 PM PDT
Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - A New Jersey gay couple sued a conservative group for copyright violation on Wednesday claiming the organization used their images in negative political campaign advertisements without their permission. Brian Edwards and Thomas Privitere, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed suit against the Virginia-based Public Advocate of the United States, which paid for fliers used to target two Republican candidates in Colorado this year. ... Full Story
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Ads flood last weeks of campaign - and so does negativity
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:54 PM PDT
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in WestervilleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 2012 presidential race, now entering its most intense phase, has already set records for the number of ads and their negativity, according to experts. Among the reasons: more money than ever to spend by a larger number of spenders, like "Super PACs," which are outside groups formally unaffiliated with campaigns. ...


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In Ohio, Romney says his "heart aches" for jobless
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:53 PM PDT
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in WestervilleWESTERVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed empathy for unemployed Americans on Wednesday in what appeared to be an effort to repair the damage from comments he made in a leaked videotape that has sent his poll numbers on a downward slide. "I've been across the country. My heart aches for the people I've seen," Romney told an enthusiastic crowd in Westerville on the second day of a bus tour across a state considered a must-win for him in the November 6 election. ...


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Lack of access in Syria hinders humanitarian aid: EU
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:49 PM PDT
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A woman walks on rubble as she crosses a street after checking her damaged house in in Aleppo's district of Bustan Al-BashaUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Escalating violence in Syria and limited access to civilians in need hinder the distribution of humanitarian aid in the country, the European Union's crisis chief said on Wednesday. An 18-month uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule has killed approximately 27,000 people, according to Syrian activists. The revolt has escalated into an armed insurgency with sectarian overtones that could drag in regional powers. The European Union estimates 2.5 million Syrians need humanitarian assistance, compared to 1 million in March. They include 1. ...


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Army general removed from Afghanistan faces sex charges
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:44 PM PDT
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Handout photo of Brigadier General Jeffrey SinclairWINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A decorated Army general is facing charges of forcible sodomy and engaging in inappropriate relationships stemming from allegations that got him sent home from Afghanistan this year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, who is based at North Carolina's Fort Bragg, has also been charged with wrongful sexual conduct, misusing a government travel charge card, possessing alcohol and pornography while deployed and mistreating subordinates, military officials said in a statement. ...


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Lawmakers press for broader restraints on China solar imports
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:36 PM PDT
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Employees carry solar panels at a solar power plant in AksuWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eight lawmakers urged President Barack Obama's administration on Wednesday to broaden the scope of proposed duties on billions of dollars of solar panels from China, as the U.S. government nears its final rulings in the case. The lawmakers, led by Oregon Democratic Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, criticized an earlier Commerce Department decision to exclude Chinese solar panels containing cells made in another country from preliminary duties of more than 30 percent. They argued that would allow Chinese solar panel producers to escape U.S. ...


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Republican study warns against bailout of state pensions
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - State and local governments facing pension liabilities that already total in the trillions of dollar will be forced to seek bailouts from the government, Republican Party Congressional staffers said in a study released on Wednesday, as they warned that such bailouts could have dire consequences. Republican staff of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee said with state debt topping $4 trillion, including $2. ... Full Story
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Noda vows no compromise as Japan, China dig in on islands row
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:24 PM PDT
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Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda addresses a news conference in New YorkNEW YORK/BEIJING (Reuters) - Japan will not compromise on the islands at the heart of a dispute with China as Tokyo already has sovereignty over them, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Wednesday after China's foreign minister angrily declared the islets were "sacred territory." "As for the Senkakus, they are an inherent part of our territory in light of history and also under international law," Noda said of the rocky islets China claims as the Diaoyu Islands in a bitter spat between Asia's two biggest economies. "There are no territorial issues as such. ...


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U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N.
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:02 PM PDT
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President of Colombia Santos addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New YorkUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of anti-narcotics laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new questions about the wisdom of the four-decade-old, U.S.-led "war on drugs." Although none of the leaders explicitly called for narcotics to be legalized, they suggested at the U.N. General Assembly that they would welcome wholesale changes to policies that have shown scant evidence of limiting drug flows while contributing to massive violence throughout Latin America. ...


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Training for the next Libya, Marine teams wary of budget cuts
Wed,26 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT
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U.S. Marines work with instructors on building-clearing drill as they train to be members of FAST unit at training ground in ChesapeakeCHESAPEAKE, Virginia (Reuters) - Shells fly and firing range instructors yell at the young Marines who are in their second day of security forces training at the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp that straddles the border between Virginia and North Carolina. "Look what you just did. Hurry up! Let's go. Do it all over," barks one instructor who is helping prepare Marine security forces like those called to protect the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli after an attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. ...


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Venezuela polls mixed as presidential vote nears
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:57 PM PDT
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Venezuela's President Chavez poses using boxing gloves during a campaign rally in AcariguaCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan pollsters diverged sharply on Wednesday over whether President Hugo Chavez will win re-election on October 7 or lose to opposition rival Henrique Capriles in an increasingly close election. Most of the country's best-known polls show Chavez ahead, but Capriles' poll numbers have been creeping up in the closing days of the campaign. Polls in Venezuela are notoriously controversial and public opinion has shifted quickly. The closely watched election will determine whether Chavez continues his drive to turn the OPEC nation into a bastion of oil-financed socialism. ...


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Sudan, South Sudan reach deal to restart oil exports
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:53 PM PDT
Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan reached a border security agreement which will allow the resumption of southern oil exports through the north, spokesmen for both sides said on Wednesday. Leaders of the African neighbors reached a breakthrough after four days of talks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, both delegations said. (Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Giles Elgood) Full Story
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Texas-Mexico border bridge shut over "safety concerns"
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Authorities in Eagle Pass, Texas, have closed one of the city's two border crossings to Mexico due to "safety concerns," the Customs and Border Protection agency said on Wednesday. The agency said local authorities closed Bridge II linking the city to Piedras Negras, Mexico, to traffic in the morning citing safety concerns, which local news media said were prompted by the discovery of a "suspicious device." Eagle Pass is not one of the principal hubs for trade or visitors over the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) U.S. Mexico border. ... Full Story
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Court to hear appeal over federal gay marriage law
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:46 PM PDT
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Pakki Hui, Jon Scaggs, and Steve Scott hold placards at a rally celebrating Tuesday's ruling on Proposition 8 in West HollywoodNEW YORK (Reuters) - The next battle over a law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman will be waged in a federal appeals court in New York on Thursday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the case of Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old woman who says the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gay couples in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Windsor's lawsuit is one of numerous challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act winding their way through U.S. courts. ...


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Exclusive: IMF, EU clash over Greece's bailout prospects
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:44 PM PDT
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A father of a multi-member family protests outside the Finance Ministry in AthensATHENS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece's international official lenders are at loggerheads over how to solve Athens' debt crisis, threatening more trouble for the euro. Officials from Greece and the "troika" of European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund have told Reuters tensions have risen in recent weeks as negotiators wrangle over further budget cuts, with the IMF adamant that Greece reduce its debt further. ...


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Anti-cuts protests erupt on streets of Athens and Madrid
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:32 PM PDT
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A molotov cocktail explodes beside riot police officers near Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike in AthensATHENS/MADRID (Reuters) - Demonstrators have clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being imposed on two of the euro zone's most vulnerable economies. In some of the most violent confrontations on Wednesday, Greek police fired tear gas at hooded rioters hurling petrol bombs as thousands joined the country's biggest protest in more than a year. ...


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Czechs ease alcohol ban, hunt for deadly booze goes on
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:09 PM PDT
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Tomas Sova sits in his courtyard in Budisov nad BudisovkouPRAGUE/BUDISOV (Reuters) - The Czech government agreed on Wednesday to ease a ban on the sale and export of spirits after police found the source behind the spread of deadly bootleg booze that has killed 26 people. The state banned the sale of hard liquor on September 14, a tough step in one of the world's hardest-drinking nations and a popular party destination for Britons and other Europeans. Exports were stopped last week under EU pressure. ...


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Nigeria says Saudi deports 150 female pilgrims, holding 1,000
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT
Reuters - KANO (Reuters) - Saudi authorities have deported 150 female Nigerian pilgrims and detained another 1,000 because they came unaccompanied by men, Nigeria's government announced on Wednesday. Mohammed Bello, chairman of Nigeria's national haj, or Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, said 150 women on one flight had been stopped at the airport for "lack of ... lawful male accompanying pilgrim". "This ugly development continued with subsequent flights that arrived at the kingdom," he said, adding that 1,000 were still being held at the airport in Jeddah. ... Full Story
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Insight: How Sonia Gandhi was persuaded to back India reforms
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:02 PM PDT
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Chief of India's ruling Congress party Gandhi waits for the start of the At-Home Ceremony in New DelhiNEW DELHI (Reuters) - It had been a brutal August for India's Congress party: economic growth was wilting, the monsoon rains were failing and the opposition had it cornered on yet another corruption scandal. In stepped Sonia Gandhi to revive the morale of the ruling party's lawmakers, exhorting them at a meeting to "stand up and fight, fight with a sense of purpose and fight aggressively". It was a stunningly assertive speech from the normally temperate matriarch of a dynasty that has ruled India for most of its post-independence era. ...


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Exclusive: EU regulators to suspend ICE, bank CDS probe - source
Wed,26 Sep 2012 02:02 PM PDT
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Tourists walk past a Bank of America banking center in Times Square in New YorkBRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU regulators are set to suspend indefinitely an antitrust investigation into credit default swaps deals offered by clearing house ICE Clear Europe to nine banks, due to the lack of evidence, a European Commission source said on Wednesday. The EU watchdog's decision also took into account the entry of European clearing house LCH.Clearnet into the $28 trillion credit default swaps market, the source said. LCH. ...


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U.S. students grill Argentina President Fernandez in Washington
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:56 PM PDT
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U.N. Secretary General Ban shakes hands with Argentina's President Fernandez during 67th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Georgetown University students in Washington D.C. got to do something on Wednesday that Argentine journalists rarely get to do: grill visiting President Cristina Fernandez on issues like her country's discredited inflation statistics. Fernandez is a gifted public speaker but she seldom holds news conferences or gives interviews at home. Her drive to crack down on media monopolies has aggravated a long-running feud with top Argentine conglomerate Grupo Clarin. ...


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U.N. members divided over response to Mali crisis
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:54 PM PDT
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Malians displaced by war gather at a makeshift camp in Sevare northeast of the capital BamakoUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. members appeared deeply divided on Wednesday as they sought to resolve the crisis in Mali, with France and some of Mali's neighbors backing possible military intervention while the United States said the West African nation first must have an elected government. A special U.N. ...


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Guinea secures $2.1 billion debt relief from IMF, World Bank
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT
Reuters - CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea secured $2.1 billion in debt relief from the World Bank and the IMF Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, paving the way for accelerated development of the minerals-rich West African state, officials said. The debt relief comes as a vote of international confidence in Guinea's transition back to civilian rule since a 2008 military coup that hampered its economy, discouraged investment, and led partners to freeze aid. "Reaching the HIPC completion point represents an important achievement for Guinea. ... Full Story
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Second time is the charm for Air Force One landing
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:44 PM PDT
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U.S. President Barack Obama waves from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base near WashingtonKENT, Ohio (Reuters) - The presidential jet Air Force One was forced Wednesday to abort an initial landing in Toledo, Ohio, due to fog and rain, and passengers including the president had a bumpy ride. The plane ferrying President Barack Obama to election campaign events in Ohio took two attempts to land while those aboard were shaken by turbulence. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, after consulting with the plane's crew, told journalists traveling with the president that weather was the cause. The plane landed safely on the second attempt and there were no injuries. ...


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Iran can neutralize sabotage of nuclear facilities: Ahmadinejad
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT
Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Tehran is capable of neutralizing all efforts to sabotage its nuclear facilities and repeated that Iran is ready for dialogue with the United States. Speaking about possible sabotage of its nuclear facilities, Ahmadinejad told reporters through an interpreter that Iran was "capable of avoiding and neutralizing these efforts." At a news conference in which he spoke through an interpreter, Ahmadinejad also said: "We are ready for a dialogue (with the United States) and a resolution of problems ... ... Full Story
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Ahmadinejad hopes for better ties with Argentina after talks
Wed,26 Sep 2012 01:43 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday he hopes scheduled talks with Argentina over two bombings of Jewish targets in Buenos Aires in the 1990s will lead to better ties. Argentina announced on Tuesday that the countries' foreign ministers will meet in New York to discuss the attacks, in which Iran is alleged to have played a role. Iran has denied any participation in the bombings. There were "misunderstandings" in Iran's ties with Argentina due to the "interference and the meddling of others," Ahmadinejad told a news conference in New York. ... Full Story
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