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 | | | Good Morning Aron, | WED 11 Aug 2010 | | | | |  |  | |  | | |  | |  |  | 
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|  | August 11, 2010 08:30 AM ET  | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado bucked a national anti-incumbent mood to beat an insurgent challenger on Tuesday, and a Tea Party-backed conservative narrowly defeated an establishment favorite in the state's Republican Senate primary.  | |  |  | August 11, 2010 09:17 AM ET  | SUKKUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Wednesday of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon as President Asif Ali Zardari defended his decision to travel abroad as the disaster unfolded.  | |  |  | August 11, 2010 08:24 AM ET  | NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India may temporarily shut down BlackBerry services if security concerns are not addressed in a meeting on Thursday, sources said, in a signal the Canadian firm's tussle with authorities around the world is far from over.  | |  |  |  | August 11, 2010 08:24 AM ET  | NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co is preparing to report second-quarter results that will show a substantial gain over the first quarter in a report it will use to bolster its bid to return to capital markets and pay back taxpayers, two people familiar with the matter said.  | |  |  | August 11, 2010 09:25 AM ET  | LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish authorities defended the doctor who said Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi had three months to live, after U.S. senators asked them to release the Libyan's medical records.  | |  |  | August 11, 2010 09:11 AM ET  | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he wanted to quickly get down to full-scale peace talks on Wednesday as he met U.S. envoy George Mitchell to hear the latest from the Palestinian camp.  | |  |  |  | August 10, 2010 11:24 PM ET  | HOUSTON (Reuters) - An approaching storm in the Gulf of Mexico will delay by two to three days BP Plc's work on a relief well, the final step in permanently killing the source of the world's worst offshore oil spill, the top U.S. spill official said on Tuesday.  | |  |  |  | August 11, 2010 08:31 AM ET  | ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Former Senator Ted Stevens, who for several years played a leading role in controlling the nation's purse strings, died with four other people in a small plane crash in his home state of Alaska, officials said on Tuesday.  | |  |  |  | August 11, 2010 09:04 AM ET  | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops were not ready for the violent resistance they met when they boarded a Gaza-bound aid ship and killed nine pro-Palestinian activists, the country's top military officer said on Wednesday.  | |  |  |  | August 11, 2010 07:54 AM ET  | LONDON (Reuters) - A new superbug could spread around the world after reaching Britain from India -- in part because of medical tourism -- and scientists say there are almost no drugs to treat it.  | | | | | |   | | | |

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