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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | THU 17 Jun 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | June 17, 2010 09:17 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward was set to face the wrath of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday as investors welcomed a plan to set up a $20-billion fund to cope with Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims.
| | | | June 17, 2010 09:30 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for jobless aid rose last week while consumer prices notched their largest decline in nearly 1-1/2 years in May, suggesting interest rates will remain ultra low to nurse the fragile economic recovery.
| | | | June 17, 2010 08:12 AM ET
 | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Thursday it was easing a land blockade of the Gaza Strip that drew heightened international criticism after its deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Hamas-run territory.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 07:54 AM ET
 | BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - Germany joined major European partners on Thursday in backing the publication of bank "stress tests" and the euro rose on a successful Spanish bond sale as EU leaders met to agree on tighter budget rules.
| | | | June 17, 2010 05:45 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg on Tuesday apologized for speaking "clumsily" by referring to those hurt by his company's oil spill as "small people."
| | | | June 17, 2010 07:33 AM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - Finger-pointing at the G20 will be self-defeating for an international forum that should be focused on coordination, not criticism, of economic policies, a senior Chinese government official said.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 09:02 AM ET
 | OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - A bitter standoff between fearful Uzbek and Kyrgyz neighborhoods gripped Kyrgyzstan's southern city of Osh on Thursday after the worst ethnic violence in the Central Asian nation in 20 years.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 07:48 AM ET
 | ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's parliament backed a Swiss-U.S. tax treaty crucial to the future of UBS AG, ending months of uncertainty over the deal and paving the way for renewed recovery at the Swiss bank.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 08:00 AM ET
 | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela joined hundreds of mourners Thursday at the funeral of the former South African president's great-granddaughter who was killed in car crash last week.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 09:29 AM ET
 | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Gonzalo Higuain scored the first hat-trick of this World Cup as Argentina took a huge step toward the second round when they thrashed South Korea 4-1 in their Group B match at Soccer City on Thursday.
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