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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | THU 15 Apr 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | April 15, 2010 08:13 AM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - China chalked up unexpectedly strong annual growth of 11.9 percent in the first quarter, prompting renewed calls for tighter policies to prevent the economy from overheating and stoking speculation of when Beijing will loosen its grip on the yuan.
| | | | April 15, 2010 07:43 AM ET
 | YUSHU, China (Reuters) - The death toll from a strong earthquake in China's remote and mountainous Tibetan plateau has climbed to 617, even as convoys of trucks carried in supplies and tents on Thursday for survivors braving the cold.
| | | | April 15, 2010 07:16 AM ET
 | OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Bodyguards of Kyrgyzstan's president fired shots into the air to help Kurmanbek Bakiyev escape about 1,000 opponents who disrupted a rally he was addressing on Thursday.
| | | | | April 15, 2010 07:30 AM ET
 | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Moderate former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been barred from traveling abroad, the pro-reform Parlemannews website reported on Thursday.
| | | | April 15, 2010 08:52 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren't exactly hiding, either. But the former Greenwich, Connecticut, residents owe U.S. regulators nearly a half-million dollars in fines and restitution for their part in a five-year-old penny stock manipulation scheme.
| | | | April 15, 2010 08:16 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Fortune 500 largest U.S. companies slashed a record 821,000 jobs last year, even as their collective profit soared more than three-fold to $391 billion, according to the business magazine, which issued the annual ranking on Thursday.
| | | | | April 15, 2010 09:05 AM ET
| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's upper house Senate passed on Thursday constitutional amendments stripping unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari of his main powers and handing them to the prime minister and parliament.
| | | | | April 15, 2010 05:57 AM ET
| BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's new center-right government will seek a new deal with international lenders and plans to make it easier for ethnic Hungarians in neighboring countries to obtain dual citizenship, foreign minister-designate Janos Martonyi told Reuters.
| | | | | April 15, 2010 07:14 AM ET
| SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea on Thursday lifted the stern of a naval ship that sank after an unexplained explosion near a contested sea border with North Korea to see if Pyongyang may have had a hand in the incident that killed dozens.
| | | | | April 15, 2010 07:43 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - A huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland turned the skies of northern Europe into a no-fly zone on Thursday, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded.
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Strong Chinese GDP growth backs tightening case
