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| | Good Morning Aron, | THU 27 May 2010 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | May 27, 2010 08:34 AM ET | VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP Plc faces a defining day in its five-week Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster on Thursday when its latest attempt to seal a gushing well deep underwater will be deemed either a success or a failure. | | | | May 27, 2010 07:31 AM ET | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it was ripping up military agreements signed with the South in a step seen as a prelude to shutting down a joint factory park, just as Seoul staged anti-submarine drills in tense border waters. | | | | May 27, 2010 07:59 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce a six month extension on a deepwater oil drilling moratorium on Thursday while a special commission studies the reasons for the Gulf of Mexico spill, a White House aide said. | | | | | May 27, 2010 07:07 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new national security doctrine that would join diplomatic engagement and economic discipline with military power to bolster America's standing in the world. | | | | May 27, 2010 09:16 AM ET | BEIJING/BERLIN (Reuters) - The euro rebounded on Thursday after China reaffirmed its long-term strategy of diversifying currency holdings away from the dollar and denied it was reviewing its holdings of euro sovereign bonds. | | | | May 27, 2010 09:10 AM ET | HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A 10th employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late Wednesday, just hours after the company's chairman promised to make life better for employees at the sprawling production site in southern China. | | | | | May 27, 2010 07:34 AM ET | BEIJING (Reuters) - Europe remains a key investment market for China's foreign exchange reserves, the Chinese central bank said on Thursday, helping to soothe markets unnerved by a report that it was reviewing its euro-zone bond holdings. | | | | | May 26, 2010 07:35 PM ET | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. troops deployed to the Mexican border will take a backseat role to civilian security forces combating illegal flows of drugs and migrants and will not militarize the frontier, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico said on Wednesday. | | | | | May 27, 2010 07:51 AM ET | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Court asked election officials on Thursday to clear up legal issues surrounding an appeal against a candidate, a move that could further delay the certification of March 7 election results. | | | | | May 27, 2010 07:45 AM ET | MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's governing Socialists won approval for a 15 billion euro ($18.4 billion) austerity package by just one vote on Thursday, avoiding a defeat that would have rattled markets and potentially brought down the government. | | | | | | | | |
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