The release of intelligence tying the perpetrators of last week's attacks in Mumbai to Pakistan, combined with the Indian government's demands that Pakistan hand over 20 fugitives, threaten to exacerbate growing tensions between the two countries. Before all of the bodies were even counted, Indian ...
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Ford's U.S. light vehicle sales tumbled 31 percent in November, while Toyota's plunged 34 percent and Honda's dropped 32 percent, dashing hopes that the industrywide drop in vehicle demand might be easing as Detroit's automakers prepare to state their second case for a federal ...
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LONDON - World stock markets tumbled Tuesday, dragged down by heavy losses the previous day on Wall Street after the United States confirmed it was in recession and a raft of grim data suggested worse lay around the corner. A steep interest rate cut by Australia's central bank and fresh steps by ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - General Motors ' November U.S. sales plunged 41 percent, while Ford's dropped 31 percent, dashing hopes that the industrywide drop in vehicle demand might be easing as Detroit 's automakers prepare to state their second case for a federal bailout. Their overseas rivals posted abismal ...
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HAVANA (AP) _ Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deciding whether to ease punitive Cold War-era policies toward communist Cuba, and the foreign policy team he announced this week seems predisposed to make it happen. Obama said ...
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HOUSTON -- Former first lady Barbara Bush was released Tuesday from a Houston hospital a week after undergoing ulcer surgery. A spokeswoman for Methodist Hospital said the former first lady was discharged Tuesday morning. She's in good condition and recovering as expected. Bush, 83, was hospitalized ...
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People's Alliance for Democracy protesters celebrate at the besieged Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok today as a court ruling brings down Thai government. BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's prime minister resigned today after weeks of protests closed the capital's airports, stranding 300 ...
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