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| | Good Morning Aron, | THU 13 May 2010 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | May 13, 2010 07:50 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday will urge Congress to move forward on new job creation measures and pounce on Republicans for "obstructing efforts to rebuild" the U.S. economy, a White House official said. | | | | May 13, 2010 09:29 AM ET | BANGKOK (Reuters) - The chief military advisor of Thailand's anti-government protesters was injured in the head, after an explosion and bursts of automatic gunfire were heard near Bangkok's business district on Thursday night. | | | | May 13, 2010 09:15 AM ET | PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP was preparing on Thursday to once again try and staunch the unchecked flow of oil from a ruptured well that threatens an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. | | | | | May 13, 2010 08:46 AM ET | LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese leaders agreed tough new austerity measures on Thursday, joining a coordinated euro zone push that has so far calmed the markets' worst fears of a Greek-style debt crisis spreading. | | | | May 13, 2010 07:06 AM ET | AMSTERDAM/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Aviation experts arrived in Tripoli on Thursday to scour the scattered remains of an Airbus jet that crashed in the Libyan capital and killed all but one of the 104 people on board. | | | | May 13, 2010 09:16 AM ET | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new coalition government cut its own pay by five percent on Thursday in a sign of the tough medicine the country faces to bring down a record budget deficit. | | | | | May 13, 2010 07:59 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and China will resume a formal dialogue on human rights on Thursday after a two-year hiatus during which the countries have worked to keep ties stable amid disputes over Tibet, Taiwan, Internet freedom and the value of the yuan currency. | | | | | May 13, 2010 08:43 AM ET | CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan natural gas exploration rig sank in the Caribbean Sea early Thursday, but all 95 workers were evacuated safely and there was no leakage, the government said. | | | | | May 13, 2010 08:06 AM ET | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States and other Western nations on Thursday against imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Interfax news agency reported. | | | | | May 12, 2010 09:41 PM ET | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles officials on Wednesday approved a ban on future business with Arizona in protest against its crackdown on illegal immigrants, becoming the largest U.S. city to impose such an economic boycott. | | | | | | | | |
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