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 | | | Good Morning Aron, | MON 08 Feb 2010 | | | | |  |  | |  | | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | February 08, 2010 09:32 AM ET  | TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is preparing a recall of its new Prius hybrid car in Japan as early as Tuesday, followed by similar steps in the United States, Europe and other markets, a source familiar with its plans said.  | |  |  | February 08, 2010 08:42 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region.  | |  |  | February 07, 2010 07:19 PM ET  | MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and 12 injured on Sunday when a massive explosion rocked a large gas-fired power plant being built in Middletown, Connecticut, the town's mayor said.  | |  |  |  | February 08, 2010 08:17 AM ET  | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said it will start making higher-grade reactor fuel on Tuesday and will add 10 uranium enrichment plants over the next year in a nuclear expansion sure to stoke tensions with the West.  | |  |  | February 08, 2010 07:47 AM ET  | TORONTO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - The euro and growth-linked currencies fell on Monday as investors unwound risky trades amid growing worries about eurozone's debt problems, dismissing assurances from European finance ministers at the weekend.  | |  |  | February 08, 2010 04:24 AM ET  | SEOUL (Reuters) - A senior Chinese official was in North Korea on Monday and a top U.N. political envoy was slated to arrive a day later in a new push to have the reclusive state return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks.  | |  |  |  | February 08, 2010 09:29 AM ET  | KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich pressed rival Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat on Monday after a narrow victory in a presidential election that could tilt the ex-Soviet state back toward Moscow.  | |  |  |  | February 08, 2010 09:23 AM ET  | PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of the wrecked capital on Sunday, accusing a district mayor of corruption and hoarding food aid provided by relief groups, witnesses said.  | |  |  |  | February 07, 2010 02:33 PM ET  | LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban militants are digging in ahead of a major NATO operation in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, in one of the biggest offensives in the eight-year-old war.  | |  |  |  | February 08, 2010 09:29 AM ET  | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour bolted off its seaside launch pad in Florida on Monday, carrying six astronauts on a voyage to install the last two main pieces of the International Space Station.  | | | | | |   | | | |

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