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AFP - The chief of the United States military Wednesday asked Pakistan to "investigate aggressively" any possible links that groups based in Pakistan have to the Mumbai attacks.
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Private employers shed jobs at an accelerating rate and the nation's service sector contracted sharply in November, according to a pair of private reports released today, evidence that the recession may still be deepening. The Dow Jones industrial average fell by triple digits at the...(more)
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After the weekend's round of political interviews, the papers provide a fresh storm of indignation about the arrest of Tory MP Damian Green last week.
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AFP - First-class cricket returns to Mumbai from Tuesday, three days after security forces ended a bloody siege in India's financial capital.
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Security forces assaulted a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were believed holed up with possible hostages Friday. Chicago reacts to attacks
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India's anger at its politicians over the Mumbai terrorist attacks claimed the scalps of two more senior members of its ruling elite yesterday.Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, offered to quit over alleged warnings about terrorist activities that were not acted on. He was...(more)
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Talk to the chief executives of America's preeminent health-care institutions, and you might be surprised by what you hear: When it comes to medical care, the United States isn't getting its money's worth. Not even close. "We're not getting what we pay for," says Denis...(more)
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A 27-year-old pedestrian was killed early this morning when he was struck by a car on Quince Orchard Road in Gaithersburg, police said. The man's name was withheld pending notification of his relatives. The collision closed a stretch of Quince Orchard Road near Interstate 270...(more)
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President Nicolas Sarkozy says a French aid worker seen in an Afghanistan hostage video was released by his captors "minutes ago."
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The US suffered a setback yesterday when their west European Nato allies forced a resumption of contacts between the alliance and Russia and stalled Nato-membership bids from Georgia and Ukraine. A meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels agreed to reopen contacts with Moscow, frozen in...(more)
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This should be China's time to shine. The country is sitting on almost $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves and may post a 9 percent growth rate this year, probably the highest of any nation. In the midst of a global financial crisis, the world...(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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