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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | FRI 18 Jun 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | June 18, 2010 08:04 AM ET
 | LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - BP Plc shares climbed in London on Friday after its boss survived a bruising encounter with U.S. lawmakers and as hopes rose its $20 billion oil spill compensation and clean-up fund will cap public anger.
| | | | June 17, 2010 09:25 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping overhaul of financial regulations will include a controversial plan to insulate banks from risky swap dealing, aides said on Thursday as lawmakers hammered out a final bill.
| | | | June 18, 2010 08:09 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged G20 countries to accelerate financial reform and strengthen public finances in a letter released on Friday before the group's meeting in Toronto.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 08:09 PM 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 Palestinian territory.
| | | | June 17, 2010 05:18 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican U.S. representative apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayward on Thursday, saying BP was victim of a White House "shakedown" by having to set up a $20 billion Gulf oil spill fund, a comment that angered both Democrats and Republicans.
| | | | June 18, 2010 07:09 AM ET
 | SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - A Utah firing squad shot to death a convicted killer early on Friday in the third U.S. execution by that means since 1976.
| | | | | June 17, 2010 11:11 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man suspected of trying to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square on May 1 was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday on terrorism-related charges.
| | | | | June 18, 2010 08:24 AM ET
 | ANDIZHAN, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - The United States called on Friday for an international investigation into ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan, as its leader said the death toll could be 10 times higher than the official tally of 190.
| | | | | June 18, 2010 08:24 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Debate over the U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan is exposing what some see as discord within the Pentagon about how to cast the fight for Kandahar and the extent and pace to which progress can be shown.
| | | | | June 18, 2010 08:22 AM ET
 | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a big early deficit to win their second successive NBA championship with a cliff-hanging 83-79 Game Seven victory over the Boston Celtics on Thursday.
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Investor mood lifts as BP survives spill grilling
