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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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Venezuela halts oil supplies to Exxon Mobil - 13, Feb 2008
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stopped oil exports to Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday, escalating a multibillion-dollar fight with the U.S. company two days after threatening to cut off all supplies to America.
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Obama rolls to three big wins - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama easily won three more Democratic nominating contests on Tuesday, extending his winning streak over rival Hillary Clinton and building momentum in a hard-fought U.S. presidential race.
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Buffett offers to reinsure $800 billion in muni bonds - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett said on Tuesday that he had offered to reinsure $800 billion of muni debt guaranteed by bond insurers, but shares in MBIA Inc and Ambac Financial Group Inc slid as investors recognized that the billionaire investor's
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Online travel agencies focused overseas - 13, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Online travel agencies, eager to expand their reach in an increasingly electronic world, have set their sights on international markets where travelers are not yet accustomed to booking trips online.
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Crested "beach bum" dinosaur found in Mexico - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seventy-two million years ago, a dinosaur with a sail-shaped crest on the top of its head lived at a Mexican seashore, munching plants and trying to avoid a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Astronauts open hatch to Europe's new space lab - 13, Feb 2008
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two European astronauts slipped inside Europe's newly installed Columbus laboratory module on Tuesday while crewmates prepared for a second spacewalk to outfit the International Space Station for new additions.
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Russia warns of new arms race without space ban - 13, Feb 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia proposed a treaty on Tuesday to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space, warning that their development could lead to a new arms race and a repeat of the Cold War.
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Berlin film festival needs hits after several misses - 13, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Film festivals pride themselves on discovering cinematic gems from around the world that the public would never see otherwise.
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Striking screenwriters vote on back-to-work order - 13, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film and television writers voted on Tuesday whether to immediately end a 14-week strike against major studios pending formal ratification of a contract deal, but there was little doubt the walkout would be lifted.
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Leigh's comedy shows there's hope in a dark world - 13, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - British director Mike Leigh holds up a hilarious mirror to all the grumpy, miserable, nasty and cynical people in the world with an entertaining comedy about an incorrigibly optimistic and carefree London school teacher.
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Henry VIII hotpants star at Betty Jackson show - 13, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Hotpants featuring England's King Henry VIII, he of six wives' fame, showed on Tuesday that veteran fashion designer Betty Jackson can still startle as much as any of the new names in London design.
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Abu Ghraib film tells story behind grim photos - 13, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - A new film aims to show that the grim abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was not merely the work of a few bad apples, but the product of an American military machine gone horribly wrong.
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Steven Spielberg quits as adviser to Olympics over Darfur - 13, Feb 2008
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg withdrew on Tuesday as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over China's policy on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
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Tiger likely to meet American Kim in first round in Tucson - 13, Feb 2008
PACIFIC PALISADES, California (Reuters) - Tiger Woods will face emerging American talent Anthony Kim in the opening round of next week's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship if there are no more withdrawals before Friday.
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U.S. military weighing if Russia in Cold War pose - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington is trying to gauge whether Russia's recent bomber mission near a U.S. aircraft carrier indicated Moscow's return to a Cold War "mind-set" and is considering how the Pentagon should respond, a senior U.S. military officer
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Clemens and accuser set to testify to Congress - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball's saga over performance-enhancing drugs was set for a potentially explosive episode on Wednesday when Roger Clemens and his former trainer testify before Congress over allegations that the pitching great received injections
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Pause means U.S. Iraq force likely larger for longer - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the next U.S. president is chosen, America may have about as many troops in Iraq as it did two years earlier, when voters tired of the war handed President George W. Bush's Republicans an election defeat.
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U.S. families hopeful of Colombia hostages release - 13, Feb 2008
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Five years after her son was snatched by Colombian guerrillas, Lynne Stansell hopes this could be the last frustrating anniversary she will have to spend waiting for news he has been freed by his rebel captors.
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Bush calls nooses and lynch threats deeply offensive - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush condemned as "deeply offensive" on Tuesday a spate of incidents involving the display of hangman's nooses, a potent symbol of racist lynchings and hatred of blacks in the United States.
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Japan PM says Okinawa rape case "unforgivable" - 13, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's prime minister Tuesday denounced the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 case that jolted the U.S.-Japan alliance.
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Obama rides winning streak into contests - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama hoped to extend his winning streak over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in a tight Democratic presidential race as voters made their choices in three battlegrounds around the U.S. capital.
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U.S. aims to give wake-up alerts on storms - 13, Feb 2008
MIAMI (Reuters) - In the not-too-distant future, the U.S. government would like to be able to wake up residents in the middle of the night when a hurricane or tornado threatens, perhaps by sounding the alarm on a cellphone.
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Venezuela softens tone on U.S. oil cutoff threat - 13, Feb 2008
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela softened its tone on Tuesday over a threat by President Hugo Chavez to stop oil sales to America, with crude prices coming off a spike after a top official said a supply cut would be undesirable.
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Senate passes spy bill and phone immunity - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Phone companies that took part in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program would receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits under a bill approved on Tuesday by the Democratic-led Senate.
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Buffett offers to help bond insurers - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said on Tuesday that he had made an offer to three of the top bond insurers to reinsure $800 billion in municipal debt, but one of the struggling companies has rebuffed the plan while the other two
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Applied Materials profit tops Street forecasts - 13, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Applied Materials Inc's quarterly profit topped analysts estimates, helped by good flat-panel display demand, even as revenue declined 8 percent amid a slump in semiconductor equipment manufacturing.
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December job openings and hires slower than 2006 - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Employers posted fewer job openings and hired fewer people in December than a year ago, government data showed on Tuesday, in a report that further underlined the weakness of the labor market.
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Banks to pause delinquent mortgage foreclosures - 13, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six top mortgage companies on Tuesday launched a program aimed at staving off foreclosure for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more affordable loan terms can be worked out.
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Dow and S&P end higher on Buffet bond insurer offer - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow Jones industrials and S&P 500 rose on Tuesday after Warren Buffett offered to reinsure $800 billion in municipal debt risk from the top three bond insurers, soothing worries about further fallout from the credit crisis.
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GM offers workers buyouts as posts loss - 13, Feb 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it would offer a new round of buyouts to all of its U.S. factory workers as it posted a quarterly loss that underscored the pressure the top U.S. automaker faces in its slumping home market.
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NY Times names 2 board nominees - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co said on Tuesday it nominated two new candidates for its board ahead of an attempt by a dissident investor group to add four directors to its slate.
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Yahoo buys Maven Networks in Web video push - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it bought Maven Networks Inc, a provider of online video technology, for about $160 million to expand its ability to sell advertising alongside Web clips.
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Dell to buy e-mail services company MessageOne - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Inc said on Tuesday it will buy business e-mail services provider MessageOne Inc, which was co-founded by Michael Dell's brother, aiming to compete with similar service provided by Microsoft Corp and Google Inc.
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EU conducts antitrust raid on Intel, retailers - 13, Feb 2008
SAN FRANCICSO (Reuters) - The European Commission conducted antitrust raids against Intel Corp's Munich offices on Tuesday and against retailers selling products of the world's largest chip maker, the Commission and the chip maker said.
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NYC may ban sex predators from online social sites - 13, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City prosecutors on Tuesday endorsed the United States' first proposed law to ban registered sex offenders from social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, officials said.
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T-Mobile dumps Google for Yahoo in Europe - 13, Feb 2008
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc ousted archrival Google Inc as T-Mobile's top Internet partner in Europe as it unveiled a service to squeeze social Web connections on to cell phone screens, a day after rebuffing a $41.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft
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Major Yahoo investor urges Microsoft to raise offer - 13, Feb 2008
BOSTON/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's second-biggest shareholder urged Microsoft Corp to raise its $42 billion bid for the Web pioneer and warned Yahoo it has few options other than to accept, raising pressure for them to seal a deal.
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Outages could rattle BlackBerry's iconic status - 13, Feb 2008
TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion's BlackBerry could lose its iconic status in the eyes of corporate and retail subscribers alike if it doesn't manage to stem service problems such the ones that led to two major outages in less than a year, analyst
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Scientists prove Napoleon not poisoned by British - 12, Feb 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Italian scientists say they have proved Napoleon was not poisoned, scotching the legend the French emperor was murdered by his British jailors.
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Johnnie To preserves old Hong Kong in new film - 12, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Director Johnnie To aims to preserve something of the old Hong Kong in new film "Sparrow" before his native city changes forever.
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Man arrested for destroying S.Korea's top treasure - 12, Feb 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Tuesday they arrested a pensioner who confessed to burning down a 600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one national treasure because he was angry about a compensation payment.
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Russia issues new warning over Kosovo independence - 12, Feb 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) - A unilateral declaration of independence by Serbia's Kosovo province would violate international law and damage security in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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Valentine gift comes with first pay check for Ishikawa - 12, Feb 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese teen sensation Ryo Ishikawa was splashed across the back pages again on Tuesday after winning his first pay check at the weekend.
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U.S., Iran to meet in days for Iraq security talks - 12, Feb 2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iranian and U.S. officials will meet within days in Baghdad for a new round of talks as part of efforts to build on recent progress in stemming sectarian violence, Iraq's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
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Darfur towns burned in government attacks: U.N. - 12, Feb 2008
KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - A major assault by the Sudanese army and allied militia has left two Darfur towns badly damaged by fire, sources close to a U.N. reconnaissance mission to the region said on Tuesday.
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Australian troops land to boost East Timor security - 12, Feb 2008
DILI (Reuters) - Australian troops began arriving in East Timor on Tuesday to help enforce a state of emergency after the tiny nation's president was critically wounded in a double assassination attempt and flown to Darwin for treatment.
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Olmert says certain Iran still seeks nuclear arms - 12, Feb 2008
BERLIN (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday Iran was still seeking to build nuclear weapons and called for a greater international effort to prevent Tehran from succeeding.
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Small businesses sour on economy in January - 12, Feb 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Small businesses are losing confidence in the U.S. economy and have little hope a spate of interest rate cuts or economic stimulus measures will do much to boost sales, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
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Xstrata slips on fears suitor Vale to walk away - 12, Feb 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Xstrata slid on Tuesday after a newspaper reported the Anglo-Swiss miner had rejected a $76 billion takeover approach from Brazil's Vale and that its suitor was close to walking away.
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SocGen rights issue seen no deterrent to predators - 12, Feb 2008
PARIS (Reuters) - A deeply discounted $8 billion rights issue from Societe Generale, seen in part as a bid by the scandal-hit French bank to remain independent, has not convinced analysts that it will deter predators.
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Marsh & McLennan profit falls more than expected - 12, Feb 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marsh & McLennan posted a bigger-than-expected drop in quarterly profit as it digested higher costs and hefty restructuring charges.
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