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SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices fell to a 3-year low below $48 a barrel Tuesday in Asia, as more bleak U.S. economic news and plunging stocks markets darkened investor expectations for crude demand....
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AP - India has demanded that Islamabad hand over dozens of suspected terrorists believed to be living in Pakistan, including India's most-wanted man.
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State governors today will press their case for federal help when they meet Barack Obama, the US president-elect, one day after official confirmation that the American economy is in recession.Governors from the 50 states are seeking at least $40bn (£27bn) to help pay for healthcare for...(more)
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Diversity within the group of men -- and still only men -- who have been president of the United States will change significantly when Barack Obama is sworn in next month. But when he looks across the highest level of civil servants managing the government,...(more)
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AFP - Foreign travellers and business people say they will not be put off coming to India's most vibrant and cosmopolitan city by murderous militant attacks that brought Mumbai to a standstill last week.
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AFP - Mumbai tailor Nitan shudders at the memory of militants hunting down a rabbi, his wife and their small, low-profile Jewish community within shooting distance of his humble but colourful wooden store.
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LONDON, Dec. 1 -- Manufacturing activity shrank around the world last month, providing fresh evidence that the global economy is in recession and intensifying pressure on policymakers to respond. In the United States, manufacturing contracted at the fastest pace in 26 years, while factory indexes...(more)
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It’s official: for the last year, the United States economy has been in recession.
The evidence of a downturn has been widespread for months: slower production, stagnant wages and hundreds of thousands of lost jobs. But the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research, charged with making the...(more)
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AFP - A former US university gridiron player has been charged with threatening Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova, as well as his former coach.
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When President-elect Barack Obama arrives at Philadelphia's Independence Hall today to meet with the nation's governors, the main question will be not whether he will deliver fast fiscal relief to the states, but how much? Obama and congressional Democrats have promised that soon after Inauguration...(more)
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President-elect Barack Obama Monday formally announced a national security team that is led by his onetime chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush's Cabinet -- a bipartisan group that he said shares his pragmatism and his commitment to strengthen America's standing in...(more)
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City dwellers get on trains, go to work and gather publicly to show solidarity after the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170. 'I want to shop just to show I'm not afraid,' one says. With a bit of pluck, even if it was not always...(more)
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