RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Bush urged OPEC nations on Tuesday to put more oil on the world market and warned that soaring prices could cause an economic slowdown in the United States....
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Citigroup announced Tuesday it had raised 12.5 billion dollars (8.4 billion euros) of fresh capital, nearly seven billion of it from the government of Singapore, as it seeks to stem losses from the US housing crisis.
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AP - President Bush urged OPEC nations on Tuesday to put more oil on the world market and warned that soaring prices could cause an economic slowdown in the United States.
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Nigeria pays military pensions to former soldiers, including former Biafran separatists from the 1967-1970 war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan officials have arrested four men following an attack on Kabul's main luxury hotel, including one suspected of wearing a police uniform during the multi-pronged assault that killed eight, officials said Tuesday....
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AP - Afghan officials have arrested four men following an attack on Kabul's main luxury hotel, including one suspected of wearing a police uniform during the multi-pronged assault that killed eight, officials said Tuesday.
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Reuters - Citigroup Inc on Tuesday posted
its first quarterly loss since its creation in 1998, hurt by
write-downs for exposure to subprime mortgages and other risky
debt.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc on Tuesday posted its first quarterly loss since its creation in 1998, hurt by write-downs for exposure to subprime mortgages and other risky debt.
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Roger Federer eases into the second round of the Australian Open with a win over Diego Hartfield.
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AP - Citigroup Inc. is cutting its dividend after posting dismal results for the fourth quarter, when the bank's mortgage portfolio lost $18.1 billion in value.
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BAGHDAD (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Iraq's prime minister during a surprise visit here Tuesday, congratulating him on the passage of legislation reinstating former Saddam Hussein loyalists to government jobs and pushing for progress on other benchmark laws....
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AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Iraq's prime minister during a surprise visit here Tuesday, congratulating him on the passage of legislation reinstating former Saddam Hussein loyalists to government jobs and pushing for progress on other benchmark laws.
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Opposition and government MPs are set for a showdown as Kenya's parliament meets after disputed elections.
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Reuters - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met
top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iraq's
parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed
at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinians on Tuesday as fighting erupted during the army's latest operation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses said.
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Fourteen Palestinians, including 10 militants, die in an Israeli raid in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- President Pervez Musharraf warned troops would shoot anyone trying to disrupt parliamentary elections meant to bring stability to the country as it battles a rise in attacks blamed on Muslim extremists....
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AP - President Pervez Musharraf warned troops would shoot anyone trying to disrupt parliamentary elections meant to bring stability to the country as it battles a rise in attacks blamed on Muslim extremists.
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AP - Britney Spears will get another chance next month to persuade a court commissioner to restore her visitation rights to see her two little boys.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney inched into a virtual dead heat with rival John McCain in Michigan hours before voting began in the state's presidential nominating contest, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Tuesday.
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The Japanese peace envoy to Sri Lanka says that the end of the ceasefire may make it necessary to review Japanese aid.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The government tightened security around Kenya's parliament Tuesday for its first session since a disputed presidential election, a fight that has provoked deadly violence and was expected to carry over to the selection of a house speaker....
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The US secretary of state makes a surprise visit to Iraq in an attempt to build on recent reconciliation efforts.
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Sudanese warplanes have been bombing rebel positions in West Darfur, rebel commanders say.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has said troops will be ordered to shoot anyone trying to disrupt general elections due on February 18.
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RIYADH (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush complained in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that soaring oil prices were threatening the U.S. economy, raising pressure on the world's top oil exporter to help ease prices.
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The threat of a national teachers’ strike has been raised after the Government announced a new pay deal for classroom staff.
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Australia is reversing a decision to sell uranium to India, as Delhi has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty
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NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenya's feuding political leaders braced for a showdown Tuesday at the first sitting of parliament since disputed presidential elections, with opposition MPs vowing to occupy the government benches.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, eight of them armed, during raids in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and a Palestinian sniper shot dead a foreign worker from Ecuador on an Israeli farm bordering the territory.
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LONDON (AFP) - Britain's biggest retailer Tesco on Tuesday reported surging sales over the Christmas period, driven by its international arm, but experienced flagging growth in its home market.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and helicopters raided the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing the militant son of a Hamas leader and 10 other Palestinians in one of the bloodiest days of fighting since Hamas took over the territory in June....
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of U.S. forces in the Pacific pushed China on Tuesday for more transparency over its military build-up and suggested its growing might was aimed at Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its territory.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's bloody election dispute has been in the making for decades, its main components poverty and tribal tensions....
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KABUL (AFP) - Four men have been arrested after Taliban gunmen and a suicide bomber stormed the most luxurious hotel in Afghanistan and killed seven people including three foreigners, officials said Tuesday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A day after urging Arab leaders to turn toward democracy - saying it is the only method of rule that can produce lasting peace and stability - President Bush met with a group here dedicated to good government....
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Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Donald Fehr head to Capitol Hill Tuesday, three years after a theatrical hearing where both men were chastised for what lawmakers called a lax steroids policy.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - New genetic evidence supports the theory that Christopher Columbus brought syphilis to Europe from the New World, U.S. researchers said on Monday, reviving a centuries-old debate about the origins of the disease.
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President Bush on Tuesday gently nudged OPEC to raise production levels, saying he hopes the oil cartel will consider how high oil prices are straining the U.S. economy.
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A nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows volatility among some of the Democratic Party's most loyal groups of voters. Among Republicans, ...
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The federal government sued Monday to gain access to land owned by a Texas city whose mayor has been highly critical of a planned U.S.-Mexico border fence.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US space probe soared over Mercury on Monday on a mission to unlock the mysteries of the smallest planet of the solar system which was last visited in 1975, NASA said.
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Rescuers searched Monday through the remnants of a deadly avalanche, unsure whether more backcountry skiers had been caught up in the slide in northwestern Montana. Sunday's avalanche tore down trees and left snow 20 to 25 feet deep.
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Emergency rooms are so clogged with patients that it takes nearly an hour for 25% of heart attack victims to be seen by a doctor, ...
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By an overwhelming 4-1 ratio, Americans in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they want a president who will change direction from President ...
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Mitt Romney is looking for a much-needed victory in Michigan, where he was born and his father, George, was a popular governor. ...
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Death bites. But dying while healthy, rich and free enough to drink life to the last drop is getting great press, thanks to a ...
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Military officials said Monday that about 3,200 Marines are being told to prepare to go to Afghanistan a move that will boost combat troop levels in time for an expected Taliban offensive this spring.
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Since Katrina hit, more than 1 million volunteers have flooded the Gulf Coast people giving up weekends, holidays and vacations ...
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Despite all its problems, New Orleans is attracting new residents. David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community ...
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Federal authorities plan to post billboards nationwide with the picture of a Marine wanted in the slaying of a pregnant colleague, and the sheriff announced a $25,000 reward Monday for information leading to his arrest.
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A controversial study showing that the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin failed to slow the buildup of artery plaques ...
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PARIS (AFP) - Women who follow the famous Mediterranean diet while pregnant may also be shielding their baby from childhood asthma and allergy, a study published on Tuesday says.
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AFP - Wire stories | 15 Jan 2008 | 2:21 am
A crane accident at a Donald Trump hotel-condominium tower under construction in Manhattan's trendy SoHo neighborhood sent a worker plummeting 40 stories to his death and injured three other people, authorities said.
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A Superior Court commissioner decided Monday to keep in effect an earlier order suspending Britney Spears' right to visit her two sons and keeping them in ex-husband Kevin Federline's custody.
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Food prices are accelerating at their fastest rate since records began, fuelling a rise in the average family's shopping bill of £750 a year.
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The flight of the white middle classes from the inner cities is accelerating, the Government's race relations chief has said.
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Iran's penal code lays down the size of stones crowds should use to bludgeon adulterers to death, Amnesty International has discovered.
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President George W Bush will face a frosty reception during a visit to Saudi Arabia amid anger at America's continued detention of the kingdom's citizens at Guantanamo Bay.
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A leading private school headmaster broke ranks last night to accuse the independent sector of fuelling class divisions.
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