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Sunday, November 30, 2008

US carmakers to present recovery plan

They will be armed with proof that they are working to restructure their stumbling businesses and will be able to emerge from the current deep slump as viable companies focused on developing new technology to build more environmentally friendly vehicles....

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Source: the australian business /wall street journal

Saturday, November 29, 2008

U.S. fears Pakistani role in India attacks

FBI agents were preparing to fly to India to investigate the bloody attacks in the Indian financial capital as the State Department warned U.S. citizens still in the city that their lives remain at risk...

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Source: the news and observer

Friday, November 28, 2008

The Real Fear in Mumbai

The lack of knowledge is paralyzing. The images of a police van firing at its citizens flooded all our minds. The people we trust the most to keep us safe may not be who we think....

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Source: online wsj

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Bush: Eight years is more than enough

As the sun sets on the Bush administration, the survival rite known as burrowing is under way. Burrowing is when favored political appointees are transformed into civil servants and granted instant tenure on the federal payroll...

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Source: international herald tribune


Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Leading candidate to head CIA under Obama withdraws from running

...Meanwhile, two widely reported choices for Obama's national security team were confirmed by ABC news: Robert Gates is said to be staying on temporarily as defence secretary, and former Nato commander James Jones is tipped to become the national security adviser...

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Source: guardian.co.uk

Monday, November 24, 2008

I Flushed Newborn Down Toilet By Accident, Says Mom

Claire Jones said she knew she was pregnant from an affair with a colleague but thought the pain she suffered in the early hours of December 28 was from diarrhoea...

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Source: smh.com.au