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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | TUE 18 May 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | May 18, 2010 09:00 AM ET
 | HOUSTON/COCODRIE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Energy giant BP said on Tuesday it was now able to siphon off about 40 percent of the oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico but has not been able to stop the leak, as President Barack Obama is to create a commission to probe the spill.
| | | | May 18, 2010 08:21 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With voter anger running high, two veteran senators face potential career-ending challenges on Tuesday in primary contests that could measure the anti-Washington mood before November's midterm elections.
| | | | May 18, 2010 06:56 AM ET
 | BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai government dismissed proposed peace talks on Tuesday to end a nine-week crisis that has killed 67 people and threatened to tear the country apart, calling on thousands of anti-government protesters to disperse.
| | | | | May 17, 2010 07:34 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate moved on Monday to wrap up debate on the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s, with a final vote on passage targeted in just a few days.
| | | | May 17, 2010 10:57 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Richard Blumenthal, the early favorite to win retiring fellow Democrat Christopher Dodd's Senate seat from Connecticut, never served in the military in Vietnam despite his public comments indicating he had done so, the New York Times reported on Monday.
| | | | May 18, 2010 07:44 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a NATO-led military convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing 12 Afghan civilians and six foreign troops, including five Americans, officials said.
| | | | | May 18, 2010 09:14 AM ET
 | ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece received a 14.5 billion euro ($18 billion) loan from the European Union on Tuesday and can now repay its immediate debt, but still faces a mammoth task to claw its way out of recession.
| | | | | May 18, 2010 06:19 AM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - China welcomed a nuclear fuel swap deal Iran announced after talks with Brazil and Turkey and urged negotiations over the dispute, but Western powers rejected the deal as too little to halt momentum for sanctions.
| | | | | May 18, 2010 06:26 AM ET
 | TEHRAN (Reuters) - The mothers of three Americans jailed in Iran last July accused of spying will be allowed to visit their children this week, their lawyer said on Tuesday.
| | | | | May 18, 2010 08:52 AM ET
 | COCODRIE, Louisiana (Reuters) - For part-time fisherman and deckhand Randy Arceneaux, this season was supposed to mark his first chance to trawl for shrimp with his very own boat.
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U.S. to probe spill as BP says more oil contained
