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» 2008Dec 31, 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Criticism rained down on embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday for his defiance in appointing the state's new U.S. senator but doubts persisted that anyone could block the move.
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Dec 28, 2008
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed six people, including four children, and wounded 36 others in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost on Sunday, a provincial official said.
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Dec 28, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council called early on Sunday for an immediate halt to all violence in Gaza after a day of Israeli air strikes in response to rocket and mortar fire by Gaza militants …
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Dec 26, 2008
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's agriculture ministry said on Friday it could soon resume imports from 30 U.S. meat plants temporarily suspended because they did not meet joint sanitary regulations.
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Dec 23, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's economies limped toward Christmas on Tuesday, with Britain contracting more sharply than first thought, Spain tumbling into recession and New Zealand's downturn deepening.
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Dec 18, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities said on Thursday that a former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc salesman tipped friends and relatives with inside information about 13 impending mergers by divulging confidential …
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Dec 18, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's central bank meets on Thursday poised to drive rates close to zero to help the economy hit hard by crumbling global demand, a decline underscored when OPEC's biggest ever supply cut failed to …
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Dec 15, 2008
KABUL (Reuters) - President George W. Bush told Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday the United States would stand by the war-torn country despite a transition of power at the White House.
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Dec 11, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate negotiators failed on Thursday night to reach a compromise deal to bail out U.S. automakers, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.
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Dec 10, 2008
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of two men named by India as planners of the militant attack on Mumbai, but a senior Indian official described Pakistani actions so far as "eyewash."
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