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Global recession rocks Asia factories
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 11:30pm PST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy has been in a recession for a year, the nation's business cycle arbiter declared on Monday, while European leaders vowed to step up public spending to try to cushion a deepening downturn. -
Obama expected to name Clinton and Gates
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 10:12pm PST
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named former rival Hillary Clinton as secretary of state on Monday and said Robert Gates would remain defense secretary in a national security team charged with recasting America's leadership role in the world. -
Eight killed in suicide blast in Pakistan
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 10:07pm PST
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MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide car-bomber killed eight people on Monday in an attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, military officials said. -
Militants could start regional war, says Zardari
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 8:13pm PST
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - India demanded Pakistan take decisive action over deadly attacks in Mumbai it said were carried out by militants from its nuclear-armed rival, while the West urged cooperation to ease tension. -
Militants have power to start regional war: Zardari
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 5:16pm PST
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has appealed to India not to punish his country for last week's attacks in Mumbai, saying militants have the power to precipitate a war in the region, the Financial Times reported on Monday. -
Space shuttle touches down in California
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 4:29pm PST
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour wrapped up a 16-day mission to prepare the International Space Station for its first six-member crew with a flawless touchdown at NASA's backup landing site in California. -
Holiday sales view still weak after weekend rush
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 4:26pm PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Key retail stocks fell on Monday as investors feared that deep discounts offered by stores during the year's first holiday shopping weekend could sap profits and would not save a bleak season. -
Space shuttle touches down in California
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 2:03pm PST
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour wrapped up a 16-day mission to prepare the International Space Station for its first six-member crew with a flawless touchdown at NASA's backup landing site in California. -
Obama poised to name Clinton to State post
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 10:17am PST
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-Elect Barack Obama was poised to name his national security team on Monday, with former political rival Hillary Clinton in line to be picked as secretary of state. -
Tills ring out for Christmas in Bethlehem
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 9:32am PST
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - "Jingle Bells" rang out over Manger Square on Sunday as Bethlehem opened a Christmas market that the Palestinian city hopes will help cap a boom year for tourism with a profitable festive season. -
Iraqi court orders U.S. to free journalist
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 8:48am PST
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court on Sunday ordered the release of a freelance photographer working for Reuters news agency who has been held by U.S. forces since early September. -
Obama to name national security team Monday
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 6:57am PST
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-Elect Barack Obama will unveil his national security team at a news conference in Chicago on Monday, expected to include Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. -
Iraq and Iran resume swaps of 1980s war dead
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 4:52am PST
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SHALAMCHA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iran and Iraq on Sunday exchanged the remains of a total of 241 soldiers killed in their 1980-88 war, resuming a swap that had been suspended since shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. -
Somali pirates to release Ukraine ship with arms
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 4:48am PST
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates and owners of a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks and other military hardware have reached a deal to release the vessel, a Kenyan maritime official said Sunday. -
Microsoft and Yahoo in talks again on online unit: report
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 3:29am PST
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LONDON (Reuters) - A report in the Sunday Times that Microsoft Inc is in talks with Yahoo Inc to buy the U.S. internet company's online search business for $20 billion is "total fiction," according to a key executive cited by an influential U.S. blog. -
Suicide bomber hits German embassy vehicle in Kabul
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 2:37am PST
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KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber hit a German embassy vehicle in Kabul on Sunday, killing three Afghan civilians, said the government, an attack claimed by the Taliban which left six wounded. -
Iraq says critics can wait to judge U.S. over pact
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 2:27am PST
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government tried to quell criticism on Sunday of a security pact which sets deadlines for U.S. military withdrawals, saying opponents could wait to judge how Washington honors commitments to pull back its troops. -
Troops patrol after clashes kill hundreds in Nigeria
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 12:26am PST
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JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Residents took more bodies to the main mosque in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, bringing the death toll from two days of clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs to about 400 people. -
Shuttle crew prepares for Sunday homecoming
Posted: November 30th, 2008, 12:05am PST
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard space shuttle Endeavour closed their ship's cargo bay doors on Sunday and prepared to land in California after bad weather prompted NASA to bypass the prime Florida landing site. -
Bill Clinton agrees to release donor's names
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 11:03pm PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton has agreed to make public the names of more than 200,000 donors to his foundation as part of a deal with President-elect Barack Obama to clear the way for Sen. Hillary Clinton to become secretary of state, The New York Times reported on Sunday. -
Hundreds of South Koreans leave North before clampdown
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 11:01pm PST
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of South Koreans streamed out of the communist North at the weekend, expelled from a joint industrial enclave by Pyongyang in anger at the hardline policy of the conservative leader in the South. -
Thai grenade attack stokes tension ahead of rally
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 7:49pm PST
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police on Sunday ordered thousands of anti-government protesters to end their siege of Bangkok's airports, restricting public gatherings and warning offenders would be jailed or fined. -
Asian economies stumble
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 6:57pm PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers awoke early for post-Thanksgiving sales on Friday in a key test of the country's ability to withstand economic turmoil as sharp production declines in Asia gave fresh evidence of the global crisis. -
India, Pakistan simmer over Mumbai attacks
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 5:18pm PST
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The fallout from a three-day rampage that killed nearly 200 people in Mumbai threatened on Sunday to unravel India's improving ties with Pakistan and prompted the resignation of India's security minister. -
Holiday sales get off to slow start
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 4:16pm PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumers made repeat trips to U.S. stores to seek bargains as holiday shopping kicked off this weekend, but an early rush is unlikely to save what is shaping up to be a bleak sales season, analysts said on Sunday. -
Gunmen kill eight at restaurant in northern Mexico
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 11:19am PST
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen shot and killed eight people in a violence-plagued northern Mexico border city that is a target of the government's war against drug gangs, police told Reuters on Saturday. -
Castro attends Cuba's first Catholic beatification
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 10:40am PST
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro attended a ceremony for the country's first religious beatification on Saturday in another sign of warming relations between the Communist-ruled island and the Catholic Church. -
Mecca pilgrims blocked from leaving Gaza
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 10:31am PST
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Palestinian pilgrims bound for Mecca were prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip via Egypt on Saturday as the enclave's Hamas Islamist rulers and the rival leadership in the West Bank traded blame for the hold-up. -
Iraq's Sistani has concerns about U.S. pact: source
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 10:07am PST
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NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's influential Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has reservations about a pact allowing U.S. troops to stay for three more years, but politicians must decide its value, a source said on Saturday. -
Asian economies stumble and U.S. faces retail test
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 4:28am PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers awoke early for post-Thanksgiving sales on Friday in a key test of the country's ability to withstand economic turmoil as sharp production declines in Asia gave fresh evidence of the global crisis. -
Iran blames West for global crisis
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 3:49am PST
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DOHA (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the West for the global financial crisis on Saturday, saying other countries were being dragged in to help resolve Western problems. -
Obesity fuels fears of faster diabetes rise
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 3:36am PST
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CHENNAI, India (Reuters) - The prevalence of diabetes worldwide will far outstrip even the sharp increase currently projected unless rising trends of obesity are controlled, health experts said on Saturday. -
Ex-Taliban spokesman killed in Afghanistan
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 3:29am PST
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KABUL (Reuters) - A former Taliban spokesman was shot dead in his home late on Friday evening by unknown gunmen in the southeastern province of Nangarhar, a provincial official said on Saturday. -
Saudi targets return to $75 oil price
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 1:40am PST
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CAIRO (Reuters) - OPEC on Saturday deferred a decision on a new oil supply cut amid signs that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are demanding tighter adherence to restraints put in place over the past two months. -
Thousands of Iraqis protest U.S. security pact
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 1:13am PST
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011. -
Thai protesters force police to abandon checkpoint
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 7:30pm PST
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A grenade blast wounded 46 anti-government protesters in Bangkok, hospital officials said on Sunday, the latest escalation in the country's increasingly violent political crisis. -
Surging shoppers kill New York Wal-Mart worker
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 5:48pm PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man working for discount retailer Wal-Mart was killed on Friday in a stampede by frenzied shoppers who broke down doors and surged into a Long Island, New York store, a police spokesman said. -
Explosions rock Mumbai hotel as militants fight on
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 5:40pm PST
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian accusations of a Pakistani link to the attacks on Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people threaten to damage attempts to improve ties between the rivals. -
FDA defends U.S. infant formula; sets safe level
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 4:16pm PST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defended the safety of infant formula sold in the United States on Friday despite tests that found the chemical melamine in one brand and a related compound in another. -
U.S. shoppers seek deals, buy less on Black Friday
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 4:00pm PST
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COLUMBIA, Maryland (Reuters) - The stores are open, the prices are marked down, but U.S. consumers spooked by the economic crisis bought sparingly at the start of the holiday shopping season. -
FDA defends safety of U.S. infant formula
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 1:55pm PST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration defended the safety of infant formula sold in the United States on Friday despite tests that found the chemical melamine in one brand and a related compound in another. -
Poverty spreading in suburbs: study
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 11:45am PST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poverty in the United States is spreading from rural and inner-city areas to the suburbs, according to a study, a situation that can worsen as the economy confronts what may be a protracted recession. -
Surging shoppers kill New York Wal-Mart employee
Posted: November 28th, 2008, 8:47am PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into a Long Island, New York, store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said.Blog Search Links: Blogdigger