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In an address on Thursday, President Obama will attempt to lay out his justification for drone strikes, which have been in decline since 2010, and what they have achieved.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 03:49 |
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James Bullard, a member of the Federal Reserve`s policy committee, warned Europe of becoming trapped in the economic stasis from which Japan is only now emerging.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 01:50 |
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co shares on Friday topped their 2010 initial public offering price, which will help the automaker`s largest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury, pare its losses. GM shares broke above $33.00, the price in the November 2010 IPO, rising as high as $33.21 in morning trading. It is the first time the stock has surpassed $33 since May 2011. So far this year GM`s stock is up 14.5 percent. The run-up in the stock price could help Treasury, which provided GM with a $49.5 billion bailout, trim losses that will likely still total billions of dollars. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 15:49 |
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Olli Rehn, the European Union`s top economist and a focus of anger across Europe against harsh belt-tightening policies, says he is not a doctrinaire adherent to austerity measures.
Saturday, May 18, 2013 03:20 |
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Japan`s economy has posted an unexpectedly robust growth rate, but economists said Europe, particularly Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel, is not willing to learn from Tokyo.
Friday, May 17, 2013 01:49 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is committed to governing as part of a two-party coalition until the next national election in 2015, his spokesman said on Tuesday, days after Cameron raised the prospect of the alliance breaking apart. Cameron has ruled with the Liberal Democrats, his junior coalition partner, since 2010, but the two have taken increasingly different positions on issues such as Britain`s role in Europe and Cameron on Sunday for the first time raised the possibility that the coalition might not last until 2015. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 13:39 |
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel on Tuesday expanded the distance it permits Gaza fishermen to head out to sea, restoring a limit it cut in half two months ago in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave. The Defense Ministry announced the decision two days before a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is trying to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks stalled since 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the expansion of the zone from three to six nautical miles, a statement said. ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:20 |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company`s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Monday, May 20, 2013 23:11 |
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The top Palestinian negotiator with Israel on Monday threw his weight behind U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry`s bid to revive stalled peace talks, while describing the situation in the West Bank as apartheid worse than that suffered in South Africa. Kerry is due to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah on Thursday and Friday. U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel broke down in 2010 in a dispute over continuing Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told a U.N. ...
Monday, May 20, 2013 22:00 |
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Antonio Banderas will play the charismatic miner known as `Super Mario,` who in 2010 became the public face of 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for 69 days.
Monday, May 20, 2013 21:37 |
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