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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil slipped to near $77 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid mixed signs about the global economy and crude demand.
Benchmark crude for January delivery was down 11 cents to $77.45 a . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
Oil slipped towards $77 a barrel Tuesday as markets awaited data expected to show that the pace of U.S. economic recovery is slower than previously estimated.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
TOKYO (AP) — Japan Airlines said Tuesday it obtained government approval to receive up to $1.1 billion in emergency loans aimed at preventing the money-losing company from grounding flights.
JAL . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — A police official says 11 more bodies have been unearthed from a mass grave in the southern Philippines, bringing the death toll from a massacre of political supporters . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:00 AM EST --
AMPATUAN, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president placed two southern provinces under emergency rule Tuesday as security forces unearthed more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — General Motors Co. will present to unions on Wednesday its restructuring plan for the Opel unit, expected to include up to 9,500 job cuts, the carmaker's top official . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
NEW YORK (AP) — BMO Financial Group says it will buy the Diners Club North American franchise from Citigroup, which will more than double its corporate card business.
BMO says the deal will add . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Devon Alexander was 7 when his mom gave in and let him join the new boxing program in his downtrodden neighborhood. He came home the first day crying, his nose bloodied from a sparring . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:01 AM EST --
BAGHDAD (AP) — Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday.
The . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani troops killed 18 militants in a fresh offensive Tuesday against insurgents blamed for a wave of recent bombings in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.
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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
LONDON (AP) — World stock markets fell Tuesday following big gains on Monday, with China's main index posting its biggest drop in three months after the country's central bank warned commercial . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
BEIJING (AP) — China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.
Zhang Yujun was executed . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans love to get their hands on the Democrats' health care legislation. They show it to the cameras at every opportunity, even piling one version on top of another to make . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:00 AM EST --
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Legislators irked for months over Gov. Mark Sanford's summertime vanishing act and his tearful revelation that he was in Argentina for a rendezvous with his lover plan to start . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
WASHINGTON (AP) — Big banks are roaring back.
At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. Dividend checks are accumulating at the . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For years just an obscure fight raging in remote desert mountains, Yemen's war with Shiite rebels has been dragged up to a new level, inflaming the rivalry between the . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:06 AM EST --
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister is trying to temper expectations that a deal to free a long-held Israeli soldier is imminent.
Officials in Israel and the Gaza Strip have recently reported . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:01 AM EST --
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has declared a state of emergency in two southern provinces after gunmen killed at least 24 people in an attack on an election . . .
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November 24, 2009 01:02 AM EST --
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil hovered below $78 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid mixed signs about the global economy and crude demand.
Benchmark crude for January delivery was up 16 cents to $77.72 a barrel . . .
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November 24, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
GENEVA (AP) — Scientists running the world's largest atom smasher used the $10 billion machine's accelerator to speed up proton beams for the first time Tuesday, in a step toward experiments about . . .
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