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China says U.S. spying allegations total fiction - 14, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not running a spy network in the United States and Washington should cease its allegations of espionage, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, days after the U.S. Justice Department arrested four for spying.
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Angry Okinawa wants smaller U.S. military presence - 14, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Angry lawmakers on Japan's southern island of Okinawa called for progress on shrinking the U.S. military presence and tighter discipline among U.S. troops after the arrest of a Marine on suspicion of raping a schoolgirl.
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Africa bright spot in Bush foreign policy legacy - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush travels this week to Africa, one of the few regions where he can claim globally recognized successes for efforts on AIDS and development in a foreign policy legacy dominated by the Iraq war.
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Hezbollah threatens Israel at slain commander funeral - 14, Feb 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday threatened Israel with "open war" after accusing the Jewish state of killing one of its top commanders.
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Ingersoll net jumps on Bobcat gain - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diversified manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd's quarterly net profit jumped due to a large gain on the sale of its Bobcat machinery division, but results fell short of Wall Street forecasts.
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Softbank unlikely to derail Microsoft-Yahoo bid - 14, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Internet firm Softbank Corp, under pressure from both sides in Microsoft Corp's bid for Yahoo Inc, may hold out for more leverage but is unlikely to derail the bid.
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Bond insurer woes could become market "tsunami": Spitzer - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The bond insurer problem must be fixed, or else it could become a "financial tsunami" that wreaks havoc on the broader economy, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is due to tell the Congress Thursday.
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UBS reveals new U.S. loans exposure - 14, Feb 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS has revealed $26.6 billion in exposure to risky U.S. mortgages distinct from subprime loans, increasing its vulnerability to the global credit crisis and sending its shares sharply lower.
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Jobless claims fall, trade deficit narrows - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in December as record exports remained one bright spot of a weakening economy, while claims for jobless benefits also fell last week, data showed on Thursday.
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BT, Carphone and Virgin Media agree ad exchange - 14, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Three of Britain's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have signed up to use a new advertising platform that will give them a slice of the growing online targeted ad market.
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Comcast posts higher profit, sets dividend - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp said on Thursday it will pay an annual dividend and set a 2009 target to complete a $7 billion stock buyback program, two actions aimed at addressing investor demands to boost its share price.
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Economy splits telcos, hardware makers - 14, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Mobile phone operators appeared unworried by the specter of a slowdown in the world economy at the wireless industry's leading trade show this week, even as some hardware makers signaled concern.
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Nokia, Qualcomm seek common ground in legal fights - 14, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia and Qualcomm agreed to look for ways in which a U.S. court in Delaware could solve some wider, international issues in the major legal battle between the two technology heavyweights.
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Orthodox gays in Israel find support in Web site - 14, Feb 2008
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An underground movement of gay Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a Web site to help homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community that is often hostile to their lifestyle.
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Google to enter China's online music sector - 14, Feb 2008
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google plans to enter the online music market in China for the first time, as it steps up its battle with local incumbent Baidu.com Inc, media reported on Thursday. Google is expected to announce a joint venture with Top100.cn, to all
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NBC and MTV band together to promote "quarterlife" - 14, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Television networks NBC and MTV unveiled an unusual plan on Thursday to promote a new TV show, "quarterlife," that will premiere on MTV, but air weekly on competitor NBC.
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African dinosaur duo ate like sharks - 14, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fossils from two newly discovered meat-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Sahara Desert 110 million years ago paint a fearsome picture of life in Africa's Cretaceous period, which appears to have been teeming with unusual carnivores.
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German astronaut makes spacewalk after illness - 14, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - German astronaut Hans Schlegel went walking in space on Wednesday, apparently recovered from an undisclosed ailment that forced him out of an earlier spacewalk to attach Europe's Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station.
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Iraq's deaf soccer team braves violence to play - 14, Feb 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Anyone born deaf and mute faces a challenge playing in a soccer team -- it's hard to communicate on the pitch, players cannot hear the referee's whistle and few coaches know sign language.
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Hollywood writers face uncertainty on return - 14, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood writers finally returned to work on Wednesday with a brighter future in new media but facing uncertainty about whether their 14-week strike will cost them lucrative TV work.
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Showtime popping pills with new drama pilots - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Showtime became an unlikely supplier of strike content when CBS picked up the pay-cable network's acclaimed drama "Dexter" during the writers' walkout.
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Bright colors, sparkle to light up Oscar red carpet - 14, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood stars and the designers who dress them grabbed Oscar's spotlight on Wednesday in a fashion preview featuring vivid colors and the sparkling jewelry expected to wow fans on the Academy Awards' red carpet.
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Yankees' Pettitte to report late for spring training - 14, Feb 2008
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte will report five days late to spring training because of his involvement in the congressional hearings on steroid use in baseball, the team said on Wednesday.
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Gionta strikes in OT to lift Devils past Senators - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New Jersey Devils crept closer to the top of the Atlantic Division when Brian Gionta scored in overtime to lift them past the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Wednesday.
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Blake sees off Kendrick after more showers - 14, Feb 2008
DELRAY BEACH, Florida (Reuters) - Top seed James Blake beat fellow American Robert Kendrick 7-5 7-5 in their rain-delayed first-round match at the Delray Beach International on Wednesday.
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Hezbollah to hold mass funeral for slain commander - 14, Feb 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a mass funeral for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, one of the United States' most wanted men, in Beirut on Thursday to calls of revenge against its sworn enemy Israel.
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Eviction can come suddenly for renters in U.S. - 14, Feb 2008
SEATTLE (Reuters) - As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.
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WITNESS: "Hurricane Katrina was big, but God is bigger" - 14, Feb 2008
Jon Hurdle has been reporting for Reuters from Philadelphia since 2004. A native of England, he has been a print journalist for 25 years. In the following story he recounts his experiences as a volunteer helping to rebuild after the damage wrought by Hurr
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Court dismisses lawsuit on secret kidnapping - 14, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge, saying the case involved a state secret, dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a unit of Boeing Co that charged the firm helped fly terrorism suspects abroad to secret prisons.
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Congress votes to outlaw CIA waterboarding - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congress defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
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U.S. backs Exxon in Venezuela assets battle - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday backed Exxon Mobil Corp's effort to win compensation from Venezuela for seized assets in a case that has prompted the OPEC nation to threaten to cut off oil supplies to America.
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MBIA to urge curtailing short sellers - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MBIA Inc plans on Thursday to urge lawmakers to curb the short-sellers beating down its stock, and to push rating agencies to revamp how they assess bond insurers.
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Paulson says U.S. economy should dodge recession - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is experiencing a "significant" housing market downturn but the economy is fundamentally sound and should avoid recession, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will tell Congress on Thursday.
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Chinalco/Alcoa memo saw up to 14.9 percent Rio stake - 14, Feb 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's state-owned aluminum giant Chinalco and U.S. partner Alcoa Inc had agreed to buy up to 14.9 percent of Rio Tinto Plc this month and had up to $24 billion to spend, according to a January 30 memo.
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Air France-KLM to invest in Delta-Northwest: report - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Air France-KLM Group , Europe's biggest airline, plans to invest in a combined Delta Air Lines Inc and Northwest Airlines Corp carrier in exchange for a board seat, Bloomberg said on its Website on Wednesday.
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Online travel sees offline touch for cruise - 14, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online travel companies trying to make inroads into the burgeoning cruise market are finding best results by involving human sales people rather than pushing resistant travelers to book expensive trips on the Internet.
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Yahoo seen in News Corp talks but analysts dubious - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is in talks on a possible deal with News Corp, but analysts said an alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft Corp's bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.
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Scientists see promise in new way to fight viruses - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a promising new method to fight a range of diseases by boosting the body's natural defenses against viruses.
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Scientists unearth most primitive bat ever found - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most primitive bat ever found fluttered around about 52 million years ago, but lacked a key feature seen in most bats -- the ability to echolocate, hunting and navigating using a kind of sonar.
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Study catches picture of deadly cancer enzyme - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have captured an image of an enzyme key to the progression of the deadliest cancers and said on Wednesday their findings may lead to new therapies against not only cancer, but HIV and diabetes too.
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Vanity Fair show captures a century in pictures - 14, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - As a magazine Vanity Fair captured the changing moods of two distinct periods of the 20th century in prose and pictures -- from the pre-War Jazz Age to the post Pop Modern.
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Italian actor fends off Church sex scene criticism - 14, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Italian actor Nanni Moretti on Wednesday defended himself against accusations of vulgarity from the Catholic Church prompted by a graphic sex scene he performs in his latest movie.
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Spacewalkers work on space station cooling system - 14, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Spacewalking astronauts installed a refrigerator-sized tank of gas needed for the International Space Station's cooling system on Wednesday, while crewmates worked inside the outpost to outfit Europe's newly arrived space laboratory.
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She sings, she acts and now Madonna directs films - 14, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Madonna can sing, her acting has been hit and miss, and now the question is, can she direct?
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China says play fair over Beijing/Darfur link - 14, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged activists linking its stance over Sudan to the Beijing Olympics to play fair and rebel groups in Darfur praised the decision by film director Steven Spielberg to quit as an artistic adviser to the Games.
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Amputee Pistorius appeals against Olympic ban - 14, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Wednesday against his ban from running at this year's Beijing Olympics with artificial limbs.
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Darfur rebels praise Spielberg for Olympic pull-out - 14, Feb 2008
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur's splintered rebel groups on Wednesday united in praising U.S. film director Steven Spielberg for quitting as artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympics, and called for athletes to follow his lead.
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U.S. wins auto parts case against China: official - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has won a preliminary ruling in a World Trade Organization case over Chinese tax policies that restrict imports of foreign auto parts, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
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House defeats stopgap extension of spy program - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a victory for President George W. Bush, the House of Representatives on Wednesday defeated a Democratic bid to temporarily extend an expiring spy law instead of replacing it with a new measure that also would immunize telephone c
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Obama takes on rivals over economic woes - 14, Feb 2008
JANESVILLE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Buoyed by a string of eight consecutive victories, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama bashed rival Hillary Clinton over the ailing U.S. economy on Wednesday and also took aim at Republican front-runner John Mc
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Clemens and ex-trainer clash at steroids hearing - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, clashed under oath at a U.S. congressional hearing Wednesday over McNamee's claims he injected Clemens with illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
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Southern California home sales fall to 20-year low - 14, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Southern California home sales fell to a 20-year low in January, as buyers and sellers appeared to be waiting for market turbulence to pass, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
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Chrysler asks bankruptcy court for Plastech relief - 14, Feb 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC asked a federal judge on Wednesday to let it take equipment and its business from bankrupt auto parts supplier Plastech Engineered Products Inc, saying bail-out options under discussion would have cost the money-losing aut
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Paulson sees slower economy, to rush tax rebates - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday stood by his view that the economy will avoid recession this year and grow at a slower pace, and that the Treasury will act quickly to distribute tax rebate payments.
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Health insurers probed over reimbursement - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday he is conducting an industry-wide probe of health insurers into an alleged scheme to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates.
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MBIA to urge curbing short sellers - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MBIA Inc plans to urge lawmakers and regulators to curtail what the bond insurer calls "the unscrupulous and dangerous market manipulation activities of short sellers," according to a copy of written testimony obtained by Reuters.
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New foreclosure plan not cure-all: FDIC - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new plan by six major lenders to delay home foreclosures for some borrowers will not be any more effective than a government-brokered temporary rate freeze program rolled out several weeks ago, a top U.S. banking regulator said on
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Morgan Stanley cuts 1,000 mortgage jobs - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley will slash 1,000 jobs, scale back its U.S. home-lending business and shut down a British mortgage unit as new management takes a hard look at the continued deterioration in mortgage markets.
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Market rises as retail sales soothe economy fears - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rallied for a third session on Wednesday after a surprise gain in January retail sales suggested consumer spending was holding up even as other data has pointed to a recession.
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Answers scraps public offering; Lexico buy doubtful - 14, Feb 2008
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Answers Corp, operator of online information site Answers.com, said it has scrapped plans for a stock offering, casting doubt on its ability to fund a proposed $100 million acquisition of reference Web site Dictionary.com's parent.
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Microfiber fabric makes its own electricity? - 14, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.
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Rep. Markey offers net-neutrality bill - 14, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation designed to prevent broadband Internet providers from unreasonable interference with subscribers' access to content was introduced on Wednesday by a senior U.S. lawmaker.
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Bets against Microsoft-Yahoo deal may be waning - 14, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Skepticism about Microsoft Corp's prospects of buying Yahoo Inc may be waning, as short sellers appear to have backed away in the last few days from bets against Yahoo's stock rising.
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Japan film shows mother as hero through WW2 hell - 13, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - A moving Japanese film based on a true story shows how a selfless mother's love for her children helped the family survive tragedy and danger brought on by the conflict with China and soon after it, World War Two.
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Spacewalking astronauts work on station's cooling - 13, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pair of space shuttle astronauts left the International Space Station on Wednesday for a six-hour spacewalk to work on the outpost's cooling system, having already successfully brought Europe's first permanent space laboratory on lin
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"Osama" not so super for Spurlock - 13, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After setting the fast-food industry on its ear with 2004's "Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock turns to examining U.S. foreign policy and the "war on terror" in "Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?"
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China failing on media freedom promises: group - 13, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is failing to live up to assurances that it will guarantee press freedom for the 2008 Beijing Games, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday, calling 2007 a "year of disillusionment".
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Volunteers serve time at Beijing boot camp - 13, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - At 6.30 a.m., with the moon still in the sky and the temperature a bone-chilling minus 10 degrees Celsius, 1,040 Chinese are ushered into lines by military police at a university sports ground.
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Defeat a "real possibility" in Afghanistan: Ashdown - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO is in disarray and the West faces defeat in Afghanistan unless it overhauls its counter-insurgency and reconstruction strategy, Britain's Paddy Ashdown wrote in an article published on Wednesday.
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Darfur rebels praise Spielberg, Beijing silent - 13, Feb 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) - Rebel groups in Darfur praised the decision by film director Steven Spielberg to quit as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Olympics but there was no reaction from the Games organizers in Beijing on Wednesday.
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Groups try school to stem foreclosures - 13, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - For hundreds of thousands of Americans facing spiraling mortgage costs, the last hope of keeping their home may lie in a classroom in a back office of a local nonprofit group.
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Bush opposes temporary extension of spy program - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he would oppose another temporary extension of a law empowering U.S. spy agencies to track communications of terrorism suspects without a court order and pressed Congress for a long-term fi
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Georgia opposition leader dies suddenly in Britain - 13, Feb 2008
TBILISI/LONDON (Reuters) - Wealthy Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, accused of a coup plot against the country's president, has died suddenly in Britain, British police said on Wednesday.
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Clemens denies he ever used steroids or HGH - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pitching great Roger Clemens told Congress on Wednesday he has never used illegal performance-enhancing drugs because he lived by the concept that "your body is your temple."
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Hezbollah's most wanted commander killed in Syria bomb - 13, Feb 2008
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Senior Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah, on the United States' most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, has been killed by a bomb attack in Damascus, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday.
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Obama on a roll after three big wins - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's three decisive wins over rival Hillary Clinton propelled him on Wednesday into the next round of presidential contests on a wave of momentum and sent her scrambling to find an answer.
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Jones Apparel net loss narrows - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jones Apparel Group Inc , owner of the Nine West and Jones New York brands, reported a narrower quarterly loss on Wednesday as the absence of a large charge offset the impact of a weak selling season.
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Northern Rock bidders told to improve offers - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government has asked two suitors competing to rescue Northern Rock to improve their offers in order to avoid the alternative solution of nationalizing Britain's fifth-largest mortgage lender.
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Deere profit rises, ups 2008 forecast - 13, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Deere & Co said on Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter earnings rose a better-than-expected 55 percent, as soaring crop prices boosted demand for agricultural equipment across the globe.
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Dean Foods profit falls on soaring milk costs - 13, Feb 2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dean Foods Co reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and said it was uncertain about raw milk costs in 2008, sending its shares down as much as 8.5 percent.
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Retail sales fuel gains on Wall Street - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose on Wednesday after government data showed an unexpected rise in retail sales last month, suggesting consumer spending is holding up and damping for now the view that the U.S. economy was contracting.
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Retail sales stage unexpected rebound - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales at retailers unexpectedly rose 0.3 percent in January, partly reflecting stronger sales of new cars and gasoline, according to a Commerce Department report on Wednesday.
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Play.com to launch UK MP3 digital download store - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Online retailer Play.com is to launch a new UK download store called PlayDigital, offering music from EMI and independent labels as MP3 tracks which could be played on all digital devices including iPods.
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UK students' school records to go online - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Pupils aged 14 to 19 are to have their school records permanently placed on an electronic database accessible to prospective employers.
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WFP, Vodafone to work on emergency communication - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has joined forces with Vodafone to work on a standard telecommunications system for aid agencies around the world to improve logistics and response times to disasters.
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Comcast defends Web traffic methods - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp has told U.S. regulators it uses reasonable measures to manage traffic moving over its broadband service as some of its customers overwhelm the network by using file-sharing applications like BitTorrent.
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Blue and white found equal in judo - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The color of a judoka's suit plays no part in the outcome of a match, British researchers say.
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Study finds love really is blind - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Love really is blind, at least when it comes to looking at others, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Migrating people had 20,000-year campout - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who migrated from Asia to the New World camped out for 20,000 years on land now submerged under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia, according to a genetic analysis published on Tuesday.
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New Europe space lab comes to life - 13, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts on the International Space Station slowly brought Europe's new space laboratory to life on Tuesday as crewmate Hans Schlegel, forced by illness to miss the spacewalk to install it, said he was feeling fine.
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Selanne strike helps Ducks continue winning run - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Anaheim Ducks rolled to a fifth straight victory with a 2-1 decision over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday, Teemu Selanne's first goal of the season helping the visitors end a nine-game road trip on a high note.
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Italian boxers tone up in edgy Marcianise - 13, Feb 2008
MARCIANISE, Italy (Reuters) - A three-year-old boy punches a boxing bag with a pair of big gloves. Nearby, his father is training a group of wannabe champions. Out in the street a poster reads: "Marcianise, land of boxers."
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Ailing body finally betrays speedster Maurice Greene - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Betrayed finally by the body which once hurtled along a track faster than any man in the world, Maurice Greene reached journey's end this month.
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Hyper action movie "Jumper" goes nowhere. Fast - 13, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hayden Christensen makes the transition from Skywalker to globetrotter in "Jumper," a sci-fi thriller about a man who discovers that he has a gift for teleportation.
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Okinawa governor wants changes in U.S. forces deal - 13, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Okinawa's governor on Wednesday called for changes in an agreement governing the status of U.S. troops in Japan as diplomats flew to the island to try to soothe anger over the suspected rape of a schoolgirl by a U.S. Marine.
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Celtics beat Pacers to record win No.40 - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Boston Celtics became the first team to reach 40 wins this season with a 104-97 road victory over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday.
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Buffalo migrate to Toronto to pay the Bills - 13, Feb 2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - In the 1970s the Canadian government barred the door to American football expansion into the Great White North, introducing legislation to block its move across the world's longest undefended border.
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U.N. Iran sanctions vote not ready yet: diplomats - 13, Feb 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will probably not vote on a third sanctions resolution targeting Iran's atomic program until after a key report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog is issued, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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Hollywood writers vote to lift 14-week strike - 13, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film and television writers voted decisively on Tuesday to lift their 100-day-old strike against major studios and return to work on Wednesday, formally ending the worst labor clash to hit Hollywood in 20 years.
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Australia says sorry to Stolen Generations - 13, Feb 2008
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia apologized on Wednesday for the historic mistreatment of Aborigines, heralding a new era in race relations and moving indigenous people to tears as huge crowds cheered across the nation.
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