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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | MON 16 Aug 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | August 16, 2010 09:20 AM ET
 | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economic growth slowed to a crawl in the second quarter and analysts see more weakness ahead, adding to policymakers' headaches as they grapple with deflation and a rise in the yen that threatens an export-reliant recovery.
| | | | August 16, 2010 09:22 AM ET
 | SUKKUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani flood victims, burning straw and waving sticks, blocked a highway on Monday to demand government help as aid agencies warned relief was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes.
| | | | August 16, 2010 07:40 AM ET
 | KABUL (Reuters) - An al Qaeda cell leader who may have been training suicide bombers was among two insurgents killed in an air strike in northern Afghanistan at the weekend, NATO-led forces said on Monday.
| | | | | August 16, 2010 07:41 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans attacked President Barack Obama on Sunday for his comments on a controversial plan to build a Muslim cultural center in New York, saying he was "disconnected" from the nation in an election year.
| | | | August 16, 2010 08:19 AM ET
 | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Several blocks of New York's Times Square were closed down on Sunday night, creating chaos in the packed tourist district after an accidental hazardous materials spill in a high rise building, authorities said.
| | | | August 15, 2010 02:42 PM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. commander in Afghanistan said he sees "areas of progress" in the war but it was still unclear if President Barack Obama's goal of starting to pull out troops in July 2011 could be met.
| | | | | August 15, 2010 11:35 PM ET
| LONDON (Reuters) - All governments should step up their vigilance against dealings with Iran's shipping sector, a senior U.S. official said Monday, describing it as a "critical lifeline for Iran's proliferation and evasion."
| | | | | August 16, 2010 07:39 AM ET
 | PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Prosecutors of the first Khmer Rouge commander to face a U.N.-backed trial appealed on Monday against his prison sentence which they said was too lenient for a man who oversaw up to 14,000 deaths in Cambodia in the 1970s.
| | | | | August 16, 2010 08:01 AM ET
 | DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Two secular Palestinian organizations joined Hamas on Sunday in calling on President Mahmoud Abbas not to bow to U.S. pressure to resume direct peace talks with Israel, which they described as dangerous.
| | | | | August 16, 2010 07:59 AM ET
| KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A man and woman were publicly stoned to death by the Taliban in Afghanistan's once-peaceful north over an alleged love affair, a provincial government official said on Monday.
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This blog offers a compilation of recent news and world events given by RSOE-Emergency and Disaster Information Service, Reuters News Agency, BBC News , CNN International and Al Jezeera News
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