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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | FRI 04 Jun 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | June 04, 2010 09:16 AM ET
 | VENICE, Louisiana (Reuters) - BP made promising strides in its latest bid to capture some of the oil spewing from its ruptured deep-sea well in the Gulf of Mexico, while President Barack Obama called off an overseas trip and prepared for another visit on Friday to the spill-stricken U.S. Gulf Coast.
| | | | June 04, 2010 07:15 AM ET
 | TOKYO (Reuters) - Finance Minister Naoto Kan, a fiscal conservative with an image as a challenger to the status quo, was elected as Japan's next premier on Friday, improving the ruling party's chances in a national election and raising hopes of bolder steps to fix tattered public finances.
| | | | June 04, 2010 07:53 AM ET
 | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Friday it could cut ties with Israel to a minimum after a sea raid on a Turkish ship bound for Gaza plunged relations to their lowest since the two countries forged a strategic relationship in the 1990s.
| | | | | June 03, 2010 02:39 PM ET
 | BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A top Federal Reserve official on Thursday made a bold call for the U.S. central bank to raise its key interest rate to 1 percent by the end of summer, saying the economy is strong enough to support such a hike.
| | | | June 03, 2010 06:48 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama sat down for half an hour to discuss immigration on Thursday, but there were few signs that the two had bridged their sharp differences on the issue.
| | | | June 04, 2010 08:09 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan tribal elders and religious leaders formally endorsed President Hamid Karza's proposals to seek peace with the Taliban to end nine years of war at a traditional assembly on Friday.
| | | | | June 04, 2010 09:26 AM ET
 | DETROIT (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp has recalled 12 million "Shrek"-themed drinking glasses after the Consumer Product Safety Commission warned consumers to stop using them because they contain the toxic metal cadmium.
| | | | | June 03, 2010 06:23 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City officials began offering wedding-like ceremonies for same-sex couples on Thursday, drawing as much criticism as praise from gay rights advocates who want nothing short of full marriage rights.
| | | | | June 04, 2010 08:25 AM ET
 | SINGAPORE (Reuters) - South Korea may not seek a full U.N. Security Council resolution against the North over the sinking of a South Korean warship because of fears over rising tensions on the peninsula, the United States said on Friday.
| | | | | June 04, 2010 03:52 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has significantly expanded the deployment of U.S. military Special Operations forces around the world against al Qaeda and other groups, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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This blog offers a compilation of recent news and world events given by RSOE-Emergency and Disaster Information Service, Reuters News Agency, BBC News , CNN International and Al Jezeera News
BP puts containment cap on gushing Gulf well pipe
