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Is company cost-cutting company throat-slitting?
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| Reuters | May 6, 2009 | By James B. Kelleher and Jennifer Ablan – Analysis |
| CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – In recent weeks, a number of investors and economists have declared the recession all but over based on a handful of seemingly positive signs, including a flurry of better-than-expected earnings from U.S. companies.
They may be getting ahead of themselves. |
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Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat
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| An internally displaced girl, fleeing military operations in Buner, holds her sister at a UNHCR camp (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) in Takht Bai , about 150 km (85 miles) north west of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad May 9, 2009. The struggle in the scenic northwestern Swat Valley, which has caused an exodus of refugees fleeing the violence, has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing Taliban insurgency that has alarmed the United States. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKIST |
| Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat |
| Reuters — AlertNet | May 09, 2009 | By Junaid Khan |
| MINGORA, Pakistan, May 9 (Reuters) – Pakistani helicopter gunships and warplanes hit Taliban positions in the militants’ Swat Valley stronghold on Saturday, while a curfew prevented civilians from fleeing the fighting.
The struggle in the northwestern valley 130 km (80 miles) from Islamabad has become a test of Pakistan’s resolve to fight a growing insurgency that has alarmed the West. |
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AIG reveals $454 mln in 2008 performance bonuses
| AIG reveals $454 mln in 2008 performance bonuses |
| Reuters | May 05, 2009 | Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky in Washington and Lilla Zuill in New York, Editing by Andre Grenon |
| WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – Embattled insurer American International Group (AIG.N) paid some $454 million in previously undisclosed performance bonuses to employees for 2008, the company said in answers to questions from a U.S. lawmaker that released on Tuesday.
AIG was widely criticized for paying out some $165 million in retention bonuses after it received some $180 billion in government bailout aid. Some of the retention bonuses were returned by employees after the firestorm of criticism |
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Georgia accuses Russia over foiled rebellion
| A helicopter hovers above the Mukhrovani military base where some soldiers staged a mutiny, some 10 km east of Tbilisi May 5, 2009. Georgia said it put down a mutiny at a military base on Tuesday and accused Moscow of trying to foment a wider rebellion on the eve of NATO war games in the former Soviet republic.
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| Georgia accuses Russia over foiled rebellion |
| Reuters | May 06, 2009 | By Niko Mchedlishvili |
| MUKHROVANI, Georgia (Reuters) – Georgia said it put down a mutiny at a military base on Tuesday and accused Moscow of trying to foment a wider rebellion on the eve of NATO war games in the former Soviet republic. read more |
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Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion
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According to senior Harvard economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron, the only way to end the present drug violence in Mexico is to legalize drugs. What do you think? Please leave a comment… |
| Mexico Senate OKs bill to legalize drug possesion |
| Reuters | Apr 28, 2009 | |
| MEXICO CITY, April 28 (Reuters) – Mexico’s Senate approved a bill on Tuesday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels.
The bill, proposed by conservative President Felipe Calderon, would make it legal to carry up to 5 grams (0.18 ounces) of marijuana, 500 milligrams (0.018 ounces) of cocaine and tiny quantities of other drugs such as heroin and methamphetamines. |
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Russia criticizes NATO Georgia war games, urges boycott
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| Russian tanks move through Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, soon after Russia’s August (2008) war with Georgia. |
| Russia criticizes NATO Georgia war games, urges boycott |
| Reuters | Apr 27, 2009 | |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday criticized NATO exercises in Georgia next month as harmful and said other countries should join Russia in boycotting them.
NATO had invited Russia to send observers to the near month-long exercises that will involve 1,300 troops from NATO members and other countries. |
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Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts
| People attend a workshop at a web conference in Madrid April 20, 2009.
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| Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts |
| Reuters | Apr 24, 2009 | By Jim Finkle |
| BOSTON (Reuters) – A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. |
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Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars
| Mexico flu scare empties streets, churches, bars |
| AlertNet — Reuters | Apr 26, 2009 | By Helen Popper and Mica Rosenberg |
| * Top soccer matches played in empty stadiums * Mayor says may have to shut down mass transport system * Empty streets in normally vibrant city MEXICO CITY, April 26 (Reuters) – One of the world’s biggest cities slowed to a snail’s pace on Sunday as millions in the Mexican capital hid indoors to avoid infection from a flu virus that has killed up to 81 people. The Roman Catholic faithful listened to mass on the radio rather than go to church, a professional soccer game was played in an emp |
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Saberi ‘on hunger strike’ in Iran
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| Reuters Pictures 1 day ago U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi poses for a photograph in Bam, 1,250 km (776 miles) southeast of Tehran in this March 31, 2004 file photo. Saberi, 31, jailed by Tehran for espionage, has gone on hunger strike and says she will not stop until she is released, her father said on April 25, 2009. |
| Saberi ‘on hunger strike’ in Iran |
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| An American-Iranian reporter jailed by Tehran for eight years on charges of espionage has gone on hunger strike, her father has said. Reza Saberi said his daughter Roxana told him she had stopped eating five days ago. read more |
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Deadly new flu breaks out in Mexico, U.S.
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| A police woman wears a mask in Mexico City April 24, 2009. A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez (MEXICO SOCIETY HEALTH ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) REUTERS/Str |
| Deadly new flu breaks out in Mexico, U.S. |
| AlertNet dot org — Reuters | Apr 25, 2009 | By Alistair Bell and Noel Randewich |
| MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) – A strain of flu never seen before has killed as many as 61 people in Mexico and has spread into the United States, where eight people have been infected but recovered, health officials said on friday.
Mexico’s government said at least 16 people have died of the disease in central Mexico and that it may also have been responsible for 45 other deaths. The World Health Organization said tests showed the virus in 12 of the Mexican patients had the same genetic |
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| People wear masks inside a bus in Mexico City April 24, 2009. A strain of flu never seen before has killed up to 60 people in Mexico and also appeared in the United States, where eight people were infected but recovered, health officials said on Friday. REUTERS/Felipe Leon (MEXICO DISASTER HEALTH ENVIRONMENT) REUTERS/Stringer/Mexico |
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