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| | Good Morning Aron, | MON 28 Jun 2010 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | June 28, 2010 08:26 AM ET | PARIS (Reuters) - Stock markets perked up on Monday after world leaders failed to agree on a global bank levy and softened the timetable for new capital requirements at a do-little G20 summit in Canada which posed questions about the forum's effectiveness. | | | | June 28, 2010 08:34 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Robert Byrd, who evolved from a segregationist to a civil rights advocate in becoming the longest serving member ever of the Congress, died on Monday, a spokesman for the West Virginia Democrat said. | | | | June 28, 2010 07:41 AM ET | LONDON (Reuters) - BP was forced to defend its chief executive on Monday after Russia's deputy PM said he expected Tony Hayward to resign soon, while a tropical storm threatened oil spill cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. | | | | | June 28, 2010 08:19 AM ET | TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto police clashed with protesters for a second straight day on Sunday, with a final standoff played out in the downtown core near the just-finished G20 summit of world leaders. | | | | June 28, 2010 09:02 AM ET | BASEL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Governments must slash budget deficits decisively and central banks should not wait too long to raise borrowing costs as side effects from measures prescribed to tackle the global recession may create the next crisis, the Bank for International Settlements said. | | | | June 28, 2010 08:43 AM ET | CAMPECHE, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical storm Alex became better organized as it slowly moved away from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and forecasters said it could become a hurricane on Monday or Tuesday. | | | | | June 28, 2010 08:22 AM ET | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea warned of military action against South Korea and the United States Monday, claiming the allied forces had brought "heavy weapons" into the DMZ truce village of Panmunjom. | | | | | June 28, 2010 08:59 AM ET | TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Monday it intended to punish the West for imposing new sanctions by delaying talks on its nuclear plans and warned inspections of its ships in connection with the program could provoke retaliation. | | | | | June 28, 2010 08:33 AM ET | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister and defense chief will be called to testify in an investigation into a deadly raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, the leader of an Israeli commission of inquiry said in an opening statement Monday. | | | | | June 28, 2010 08:28 AM ET | KABUL (Reuters) - The deaths of four Norwegian soldiers in a roadside bomb attack brings to around 100 the number of foreign troops to die in Afghanistan in June, the bloodiest month since the insurgency started in 2001. | | | | | | | | |
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