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 | | Good Morning Aron, | TUE 29 Dec 2009 | | | |  |  | |  | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | December 29, 2009 06:31 AM ET  | VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday U.S. plans for a missile defense system were the main obstacle to reaching a new deal on reducing Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons.  | |  |  | December 29, 2009 08:09 AM ET  | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. employers expect to hire more new workers in 2010 than they did in 2009, a sign the U.S. recession may be easing its grip, research showed on Tuesday.  | |  |  | December 29, 2009 08:15 AM ET  | KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - A wing of al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Monday for a failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S.-bound passenger plane, and President Barack Obama vowed to bring "every element" of U.S. power against those who threaten Americans' safety.  | |  |  |  | December 29, 2009 09:07 AM ET  | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday opposition rallies were a foreign-backed "nauseating masquerade," the official IRNA news agency reported.  | |  |  | December 29, 2009 08:43 AM ET  | KARACHI (Reuters) - Several thousand mourners attended funerals on Tuesday for victims of a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in Pakistan's commercial capital, an emotional reminder of a raging Taliban insurgency.  | |  |  | December 28, 2009 05:20 PM ET  | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Frequent flyers grudgingly remove their shoes and keep liquids in tiny bottles to appease airport security, but measures imposed after a foiled Christmas Day terror plot could tempt frustrated travelers to find alternatives to commercial airlines, experts say.  | |  |  |  | December 29, 2009 08:44 AM ET  | URUMQI, China (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was appalled at China's execution of a Briton caught smuggling heroin on Tuesday, prompting China to denounce British "accusations" and defend its court system.  | |  |  |  | December 28, 2009 11:03 PM ET  | KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Vacationing U.S. President Barack Obama interrupted a golf game on Monday and sped back to his holiday house after the child of friends was hurt in a beach accident.  | |  |  |  | December 28, 2009 08:07 PM ET  | KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - President Barack Obama assured Americans on Monday the United States will defeat those behind an attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner and sought to blunt criticism that his response to the incident was slow.  | |  |  |  | December 28, 2009 11:00 PM ET  | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had detained a U.S. citizen who entered its territory, apparently confirming a report that an American activist crossed into the state to raise awareness about Pyongyang's human rights abuses.  | | | | |   | | | |

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