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WTO Says China Unfairly Restricting U.S. Music, Films : NPRA Lebanese man who hosted a popular TV show where he gave callers advice and sometimes predicted the future was sentenced to death by a court in Saudi Arabia last month. His charge? Sorcery. Ali Hussain Sibat's popular call-in show was broadcast on a satellite TV channel in Arabic around the ...
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Exclusive: IRS hires hundreds for new wealth unit | ReutersA new Internal Revenue Service unit set up to catch rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in complex business entities is rapidly taking shape with the hiring of hundreds of employees. The IRS high wealth unit, part of a broader effort to combat international tax evasion, is focusing on "the ...
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U.S. charges Chicago man in '08 Mumbai attack - Yahoo! NewsU.S. prosecutors on Monday charged a Chicago man, David Headley, with helping plan the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people, including six Americans. Headley, the first American charged in the plot, was accused of receiving training from the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, ...
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Leo W. Gerard: Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off ShoreIt turns out a Texas windmill farm developer's request last month for nearly half a billion dollars in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn't rank first on the audacity scale. Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of Americans who are ...
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U.S. forces missed chance to get bin Laden in 2001 - Yahoo! NewsThe U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The report, written by staff working for the Democratic majority on the ...
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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting RulesRyan Grim Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules What's Your Reaction? Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by stripping ...
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Beijing's Trade Dominance: China Makes an End Run Around the USBeijing's Trade Dominance China Makes an End Run Around the US By Dexter Roberts and Pete Engardio As more free-trade deals exclude America, Beijing could dominate a new Asian trade bloc. Washington is worried. President Barack Obama makes his first state visit to East Asia on Nov. ...
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United Nations (UN) on TwitterMore than four million HIV-positive people now receiving life-saving treatment http://is.gd/4Hs1C #UN #news Muhammad Ali's daughter, Khaliah, joins fight against hunger http://is.gd/4Hphm #UN #news Now the Choir Academy of Harlem is performing for all of us present at UNHQ's ECOSOC ...
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Obama's commendable change in federal drug enforcement policy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comObama's commendable change in federal drug enforcement policy (updated below) This is one of those rare instances of unadulterated good news from Washington: The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, ...
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David Rohde on the "why do they hate us?" question - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comDavid Rohde on the "why do they hate us?" question Yesterday I wrote about the first installment of the account by The New York Times ' David Rohde of his seven months as a hostage held by the Taliban, and specifically how -- as he put it -- some of "Washington’s antiterrorism policies had ...
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