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| | Good Morning Aron, | WED 30 Dec 2009 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | December 30, 2009 09:00 AM ET | THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will begin using full-body scanners within three weeks to check people traveling to the United States, after consultations with U.S. authorities, the Dutch interior minister said on Wednesday. | | | | December 30, 2009 09:33 AM ET | RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Twin suicide bombs killed at least 24 and wounded more than 100 in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland on Wednesday and a roadside bomb killed seven pilgrims returning from a major Shi'ite Muslim religious festival. | | | | December 30, 2009 08:57 AM ET | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of government supporters rallied in cities across Iran on Wednesday swearing allegiance to the clerical establishment and accusing opposition leaders of causing unrest in the Islamic state. | | | | | December 30, 2009 09:37 AM ET | HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) - A JetBlue Airways Corp passenger jet on a flight from Aruba to Boston made an emergency landing in Bermuda on Tuesday after the crew reported smoke in the cockpit, a local newspaper said on Wednesday, quoting fire service and airline officials. | | | | December 30, 2009 07:20 AM ET | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has been taking equipment left at a nuclear reactor site that was mothballed when an international consortium halted work on grounds the communist state was breaking an agreement, a news report said on Wednesday. | | | | December 30, 2009 04:33 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies are weighing focused sanctions against Iran's leadership rather than broad-based penalties that they fear could harm the protest movement, officials and diplomats said. | | | | | December 30, 2009 05:08 AM ET | NEW YORK (Reuters) - GMAC Financial Services is close to getting about $3.5 billion in added aid from the U.S. government, on top of the $12.5 billion already received since December 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported. | | | | | December 30, 2009 06:05 AM ET | RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Hints of possible movement in the deadlocked Middle East process have emerged in talks between the leaders of Egypt and Israel, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday, without giving details. | | | | | December 30, 2009 07:28 AM ET | KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in the commercial capital Karachi, and threatened more attacks on the U.S. ally. | | | | | December 29, 2009 11:46 AM ET | YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (Reuters) - When Bob Hagan was a boy people hereabouts equated the coke dust they swept off their doorsteps each day with opportunity, for it came from the steel mills that built this city. | | | | | | | | |
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