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| | Good Morning Aron, | WED 12 May 2010 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | May 12, 2010 08:38 AM ET | TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A Libyan Airbus jet crashed early on Wednesday as it tried to land in Tripoli airport, killing 103 people on board, most of them Dutch, leaving a young Dutch boy the sole survivor, officials said. | | | | May 12, 2010 09:20 AM ET | MADRID/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain became the latest euro zone country to announce sweeping austerity measures on Wednesday as the executive European Commission sought unprecedented power to pre-vet national budgets. | | | | May 12, 2010 07:59 AM ET | WASHINGTON/PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - Top oil executives face a second day of grilling by U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday over a deadly well rupture that unleashed a huge oil slick and the specter of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. | | | | | May 12, 2010 09:13 AM ET | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's first coalition government since 1945 unveiled its ministerial team on Wednesday and said it would speed up efforts to cut the country's budget deficit as it emerges from a deep recession. | | | | May 12, 2010 06:39 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The senior Republican on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee cast doubt on Tuesday on the Obama administration's assertions that the Pakistani Taliban orchestrated the attempted car bombing in New York on May 1. | | | | May 12, 2010 07:16 AM ET | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rescuers working through the night found eight bodies but no survivors in a stricken Siberian coal mine on Wednesday after powerful weekend blasts that killed at least 60 people, emergency officials said. | | | | | May 12, 2010 08:14 AM ET | TEHRAN (Reuters) - U.N. resolutions aimed at increasing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program "are not worth a penny" and Tehran will give no ground to pressure, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday. | | | | | May 12, 2010 08:39 AM ET | NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. securities regulator said no single event had been found to explain Thursday's mysterious market plunge, but the shocking drop was unacceptable and additional safeguards were coming. | | | | | May 12, 2010 08:25 AM ET | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia may lift the veil on its vast nuclear arsenal after a new strategic arms reduction treaty with the United States comes into force, a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday. | | | | | May 12, 2010 08:44 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday challenged the Federal Reserve's tradition of secrecy but postponed an overhaul of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under a massive reform of banking regulations. | | | | | | | | |
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