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 | | Good Morning Aron, | THU 01 Apr 2010 | | | |  |  | |  | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | April 01, 2010 08:10 AM ET  | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The week after passing landmark healthcare reform and handing President Barack Obama an important victory, members of the U.S. Congress returned to their home districts for a recess to face constituents and justify their votes after the bruising legislative battle.  | |  |  | April 01, 2010 05:52 AM ET  | BEIJING (Reuters) - China has agreed to serious negotiations with Western powers about imposing new sanctions on Iran and President Hu Jintao will attend a multi-nation summit on nuclear security in Washington this month, officials said.  | |  |  | April 01, 2010 04:31 AM ET  | KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - The sentencing on Thursday of an anti-abortion activist who gunned down a Kansas doctor comes amid a bitter U.S. debate over abortion that nearly derailed landmark healthcare reform legislation last month and is expected to remain a factor in U.S. midterm elections.  | |  |  |  | April 01, 2010 09:10 AM ET  | FORT WASHINGTON, Md (Reuters) - By the time thousands of parishioners stream into the 3,000-seat Ebenezer AME Church on Easter Sunday, church leaders hope to have something else to celebrate: financial revival.  | |  |  | April 01, 2010 08:16 AM ET  | VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, accused by victims' lawyers of being ultimately responsible for a cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests, cannot be called to testify at any trial because he has immunity as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official said on Thursday.  | |  |  | April 01, 2010 08:13 AM ET  | KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai accused the West on Thursday of trying to ruin Afghanistan's elections, intensifying a showdown with parliament over whether foreigners will oversee a parliamentary vote this year.  | |  |  |  | April 01, 2010 07:29 AM ET  | MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev made a surprise visit to the North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Thursday and said Russia must destroy those behind suicide bombings that killed at least 50 people this week.  | |  |  |  | April 01, 2010 09:19 AM ET  | LONDON (Reuters) - Somali pirates are expected to step up attacks on merchant vessels as better weather allows them to operate more easily at sea, the U.S. government warned.  | |  |  |  | March 31, 2010 09:06 PM ET  | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - International donors on Wednesday pledged $5.3 billion to Haiti, exceeding expectations in a worldwide drive to rebuild the country after January's shattering earthquake.  | |  |  |  | March 31, 2010 09:43 PM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican National Committee has been spending big to win key elections and regain momentum under chairman Michael Steele -- maybe too big, according to political analysts and federal records.  | | | | |   | | | |

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