A digital stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo shows Japan's key Nikkei stoc... Japan's key Nikkei stock index fell below the 8,000 line Tuesday morning for the first time since Nov. 21 on mounting concern about the global economy, which sent Wall Street tumbling overnight and the yen ...
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CHICAGO (Dec. 1) - Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him long and bitterly for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for George W. Bush — striking choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted ...
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NEW DELHI - 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. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa were due ...
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Associated Press Writer= ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - The militant group blamed for the Mumbai attacks has roots in the disputed Kashmir region where Pakistan's military has faced off against India for decades. There have long been suspicions that Pakistan's military and intelligence services helped ...
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Channel 7 television said an M79 grenade was fired from a flyover near the domestic airport, which has been occupied by the People's Alliance for Democracy since last Thursday, part of the escalating campaign to topple the six-party ruling coalition. An emergency services official said 17 of the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- A week before the final standings are released and the Bowl Championship Series is already ticking people off. Oklahoma -- not Texas -- is headed to the Big 12 championship game with an inside track to the national title game by moving ahead of the Longhorns in the BCS standings ...
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(CNN) -- Chicago police arrested a man in the deaths of three relatives of actress Jennifer Hudson, a police spokesman said. William Balfour, here in an undated photo, is the estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson's sister, Julia. William Balfour was first detained for questioning on October 24, the ...
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