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 | | | | Good Morning Aron, | TUE 10 Aug 2010 | | | | |  | | | | | | |  | | | 
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| | August 10, 2010 11:22 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of plane manufacturer EADS North American unit, Sean O'Keefe, and former Republican U.S. Senator Ted Stevens were aboard a plane that crashed in Alaska, and it was not immediately known if they survived, EADS and a congressional source said on Tuesday.
| | | | August 10, 2010 09:54 AM ET
 | SUKKUR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari returned home on Tuesday from foreign visits to a chorus of criticism over his government's response to the country's worst flooding in 80 years.
| | | | August 10, 2010 10:48 AM ET
 | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee for crimes he is accused of committing while a minor in Afghanistan may set a dangerous precedent for child soldiers worldwide, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday.
| | | | | August 10, 2010 11:07 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. business productivity fell for the first time in 1-1/2 years in the second quarter and labor costs hardly rose, according to government data that underlined the halting pace of economic recovery.
| | | | August 10, 2010 09:29 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's monetary policy committee gathered for a one-day meeting on Tuesday to consider, and perhaps adopt, additional measures to prop up a softening U.S. economic recovery.
| | | | August 10, 2010 11:12 AM ET
 | MIAMI/HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP advanced on the final lap toward permanently killing the source of the world's worst offshore oil spill and kicked off a $20 billion compensation fund with a $3 billion deposit on Monday.
| | | | | August 10, 2010 10:46 AM ET
 | RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - U.S. peace envoy George Mitchell had "serious and positive" talks on Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but there was no agreement yet on a move to direct negotiations with Israel.
| | | | | August 10, 2010 03:50 AM ET
 | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon, trying to free up cash in the face of a yawning U.S. deficit, unveiled a series of cost-cutting measures on Wednesday that will shed thousands of jobs and shut down an entire military command.
| | | | | August 10, 2010 10:56 AM ET
 | ZHOUQU, China (Reuters) - Engineers battled on Tuesday to drain an unstable lake created by China's deadliest landslide in decades, fearing it could burst and swamp devastated areas where people are still hunting for survivors.
| | | | | August 10, 2010 10:07 AM ET
 | JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel exhausted all other options before carrying out its deadly raid on a Turkish aid flotilla enroute to the blockaded Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told a government-appointed inquiry on Tuesday.
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Ex-Senator Ted Stevens in plane crash
