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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | TUE 22 Jun 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | June 22, 2010 08:42 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has summoned the top U.S. general in Afghanistan to Washington to explain controversial remarks critical of the Obama administration, U.S. military and Obama administration officials said on Tuesday.
| | | | June 22, 2010 09:15 AM ET
 | LONDON/NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Beleaguered BP boss Tony Hayward retreated from daily management of the U.S. oil spill crisis on Tuesday and dodged making a conference speech where his stand-in was heckled by angry environmentalists.
| | | | June 22, 2010 07:14 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Budget Director Peter Orszag plans to leave his job in a few weeks, making him the first senior member of President Barack Obama's economic team to step down, Democratic sources said on Monday.
| | | | | June 22, 2010 07:07 AM ET
 | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China pulled back the veil on its new currency regime a little further on Tuesday, appearing to engineer a fall in the yuan to make clear its vow of flexibility did not include one-way bets for appreciation.
| | | | June 22, 2010 08:44 AM ET
 | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy will grow more slowly than previously envisaged this year and next as a result of fiscal tightening but will subsequently pick up speed, finance minister George Osborne said on Tuesday.
| | | | June 22, 2010 09:11 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will warn health insurance industry executives at a White House meeting on Tuesday against imposing big rate increases ahead of tighter rules under the new U.S. healthcare law, The New York Times reported.
| | | | | June 21, 2010 07:12 PM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani-born American citizen defiantly pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United States.
| | | | | June 22, 2010 07:53 AM ET
 | BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it was concerned about reports that a U.S. aircraft carrier may join a military exercise with South Korea amid a tense standoff with North Korea over the sinking of a warship from the South.
| | | | | June 22, 2010 09:09 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - The United Nations has agreed to remove Taliban members who renounce ties to al Qaeda from a U.N. blacklist on a "gradual" basis, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office said on Tuesday.
| | | | | June 22, 2010 07:56 AM ET
 | OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Thousands of refugees who had fled to Uzbekistan to avoid ethnic bloodshed trekked back to burned-out homes in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday ahead of a vote on how the Central Asian state will be governed.
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