MUMBAI, India (AP) - Demands for action are being heard across India amid the anger over last week's rampage in Mumbai by militants accused of coming from Pakistan, but leaders of the two nuclear-armed neighbors are striving to keep tensions in check. Neither country has the appetite for a fourth ...
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ATLANTA - Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss jumped to an early lead Tuesday over Democrat Jim Martin in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff that had low voter turnout despite its high stakes on the balance of power in Washington. With 44 percent of precincts reporting, Chambliss had 61 percent of the vote to ...
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PHILADELPHIA — President-elect Barack Obama in an unprecedented gathering here yesterday (Dec. 2) enlisted the help of the nation’s governors to forge a national economic recovery plan with states as a centerpiece. “Any true solution will not come from Washington alone,” Obama said in ...
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DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. is considering selling Volvo Car Corp. as the beleaguered U.S. automaker seeks to raise cash and weather a global automotive sales crisis. Goteborg-based Volvo Cars, which Ford bought in 1999, has been struggling against a weak U.S. dollar and declining demand. Volvo ...
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Security officers once again patrol Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport, which anti-government protesters shut down for nearly a week / AP PASSENGER flights are expected to resume at Bangkok's international airport late today or tomorrow after anti-government protesters ended their action following a ...
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TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei average pared gains to 1 per cent on Wednesday, with optimism after a Wall Street rally fading as the dollar briefly flirted with the 92-yen level, weighing on exporters such as Sony Corp. Automakers suffered, with Honda Motor Co down 5.5 per cent in the face of a sharp drop in ...
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Super Bowl hero Plaxico Burress is done for the year. The New York Giants fined and suspended Burress on Tuesday for four games - the rest of the regular season - after he accidentally shot himself in the right thigh over the weekend at a Manhattan nightclub. The team also placed him on the reserve ...
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