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| | Good Morning Aron, | MON 26 Jul 2010 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | July 26, 2010 08:16 AM ET | KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan was actively collaborating with the Taliban in Afghanistan while accepting U.S. aid, new U.S. military reports showed, a disclosure likely to increase the pressure on Washington's embattled ally. | | | | July 26, 2010 07:17 AM ET | LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc is expected to install an American troubleshooter as chief executive in the next 24 hours, replacing Tony Hayward, who has come under fire for his handling of the worst oil spill in U.S. history. | | | | July 26, 2010 07:25 AM ET | LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors gave European banks the benefit of the doubt on Monday over stress tests that prompted more transparency from Spanish banks needing to raise capital than from German banks cagey about sovereign debt. | | | | | July 26, 2010 07:31 AM ET | BANGALORE (Reuters) - Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's investment firm, is preparing to file new lawsuits to recover funds from investors who were also duped by the Ponzi scheme, the Wall Street Journal said. | | | | July 26, 2010 08:44 AM ET | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU foreign ministers approved tighter sanctions on Iran over its disputed nuclear program on Monday, with steps to block oil and gas investment and curtail Tehran's refining and natural gas capability. | | | | July 26, 2010 09:14 AM ET | KABUL (Reuters) - At least 45 civilians, many women and children, were killed in a rocket attack by the NATO-led force in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province last week, a spokesman for the Afghan government said on Monday. | | | | | July 26, 2010 08:25 AM ET | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will unveil as early as Monday a slimmed-down energy bill seeking to make offshore drilling safer and convert trucks to run on domestic natural gas. | | | | | July 26, 2010 07:59 AM ET | PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The first Khmer Rouge commander to face a U.N.-backed tribunal was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Monday for overseeing 14,000 deaths in the 1970s, but he'll serve about half that, angering many Cambodians. | | | | | July 26, 2010 06:18 AM ET | KABUL (Reuters) - The creation of local militias, such as a newly announced police unit, is an attempt by the United States to split up Afghanistan ahead of the withdrawal of its troops, the Taliban said on Monday. | | | | | July 26, 2010 07:44 AM ET | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A group of drug cartel inmates who were allowed by guards to leave prison to commit murders are believed responsible for the massacre of 17 people earlier this month, the Mexican government said on Sunday. | | | | | | | | |
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