Haifa, Israel — The immediate fate of a battered Gaza seemed to hang in the balance, as negotiations for a cease-fire ramped up among Israel, Egypt and Hamas, with the United States and other Arab countries active on the sidelines. As the diplomats negotiated, Gazans — their food supplies ...
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama implored Congress on Thursday to "act boldly and act now" to fix an economy growing perilously weaker. Leading lawmakers set an informal goal of mid-February for enacting tax cuts and government spending that could cost as much as $1 trillion. Democrats ...
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The political and financial ties between embattled Illinois Gov. Rod J. Blagojevich and Senate appointee Roland Burris run much deeper than previously reported – possibly involving deals worth millions of dollars and an $80,000 per year job given to the governor’s wife. Among the latest ...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union said Thursday that gas supplies should restart after it struck a deal with Russia on supervising the flow of gas through Ukraine. Russia cut off natural gas supplies to Europe on Tuesday during freezing winter weather as a payment dispute with Ukraine ...
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WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers have reached a deal with Citigroup (C) on a plan to let bankruptcy judges alter home loans in an effort to prevent foreclosures and urged other lenders to follow suit. The lawmakers aim to attach the plan to President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus ...
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With USC, Texas and the unbeaten Utah Utes standing on the outside looking in, the BCS championship game tonight between Florida and Oklahoma won't settle the debate about No. 1. One theory is, the powers who run college football like it that way because the endless debate creates interest and draws ...
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MUMBAI: Did Satyam Computers promoter-chairman Ramalinga Raju pick the lesser of two crimes when he decided to confess to India’s largest-ever corporate fraud of Rs 7,136 crore? That’s a question that had begun to niggle a few people on Wednesday itself, when the contents of his 5-page letter ...
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