Pinera assumes Chile presidency amid strong quakes (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:32:48 GMT - AP - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is urging citizens along the coast to move quickly to higher ground following five strongly felt aftershocks, ...

Partial results from Iraqi vote show tight contest (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:31:15 GMT - AP - Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister's bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each.

Democrats, White House close in on health bill (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:17:39 GMT - AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday walked their rank-and-file members through last-minute agreements that could move President Barack Obama's over...

Greece hit by strikes, riots over austerity plan (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:31:55 GMT - AP - Serious street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in central Athens Thursday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwid...

First-time jobless claims drop slightly last week (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:29 GMT - AP - The number of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits slipped last week, but remains above the level many economists say would si...

Dodd to offer his own financial regulation bill (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:03 GMT - AP - WASHINGTON AP) — Unable to muster bipartisan agreement on key banking provisions, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd said T...

KC superintendent says school closings are painful (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:06:10 GMT - AP - Kansas City School Superintendent John Covington says the decision to close almost half the district's schools was difficult and painful but "unq...

Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:36:02 GMT - AP - Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person — a shift that underlines...

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:25:56 GMT - AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floy...

A-Rod: Lawyers are setting up interview with feds (AP)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:10:28 GMT - AP - Alex Rodriguez may soon be talking to federal authorities, and he hopes it will happen close to spring training.

Chile aftershock measured at 7.2 magnitude (Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:14:30 GMT - Reuters - A 7.2 magnitude aftershock struck near Chile's capital Santiago on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Police clash with protesters as Greeks fight cuts (Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:46:16 GMT - Reuters - Police clashed with stone-throwing youths in Athens on Thursday as tens of thousands protested draconian cutbacks aimed at pulling Greece ou...

Biden appeals for Mideast peace talks without delay (Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:21:12 GMT - Reuters - Vice President Joe Biden called on Thursday for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to start without delay despite Palestinian insistence that I...

Secularist list ahead in two Iraqi provinces (Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:19:18 GMT - Reuters - A cross-sectarian, secularist alliance headed by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is ahead in two Iraqi provinces north of Baghdad, early r...

Ukraine's Yanukovich gets close ally as PM (Reuters)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:48:41 GMT - Reuters - Ukraine's new prime minister, Mykola Azarov, declaring state coffers were empty, promised on Thursday to meet all obligations to the Interna...

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