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Specialist Glenn Carell studies his screens as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, July 8, 2010 Stocks rise, pushing S&P; 500 to third week of gains
New York • Stocks rose, pushing the Standard & Poor’s 500 index toward its third straight week of gains. Online travel booking company climbed after reporting strong earnings. | KEEPING SCORE: The... (photo: AP / Richard Drew) The Salt Lake Tribune
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Cte dIvoire President Gives Press Conference Alassane Dramane Ouattara, President of Cte dIvoire, speaks to journalists. Ivory Coast's hospitalised president "doing well" - government
  | Reuters | Image Caption: | President of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York (reuters tickers) | February 21, 2014 - 15:22 | ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Co... (photo: UN / Mark Garten) Swissinfo
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A Palestinian Hamas militant walks in the rubble of the destroyed house of Hamas militant Mohammad Abu Shmala, following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Gaza's economic woes pile up, unemployment soars
Ariel Sharon Arab Spring | Reuters | Image Caption: | Palestinians inspect a building under construction in the southern Gaza Strip (reuters tickers) | February 21, 2014 - 07:41 | By Nidal al-Mughrabi... (photo: AP / Eyad Baba) Swissinfo
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President Barack Obama waves before delivering a speech to all Latin Americans AT the Centro Cultural La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile, Monday, March 21, 2011. Obama is in Chile as part of a three-country, five-day tour of Latin America. Obama budget to drop benefit cost-of-living trims
WASHINGTON • President Barack Obama will propose an election-year budget that would drop reductions he had previously embraced in federal benefits, officials disclosed Thursday. | He also will ask C... (photo: AP / Roberto Candia) STL Today
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A demonstrator stands next to a burning barricade during an opposition protest outside La Carlota airport in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Members of the opposition are protesting after their leader Leopoldo Lopez surrendered to authorities Tuesday. Lopez was being sought by authorities for allegedly inciting violence during protests last week in which three people were killed as government forces clashed with protesters. Venezuela protesters, troops clash, death toll at six
  | Reuters | Image Caption: | Supporters of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez stand at a barricade during a protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government, in a middle-class neighbourhood ... (photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd) Swissinfo
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Nigeria Central Bank Nigerian leader ousts reformist Central Bank chief
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's president on Thursday ousted the Central Bank governor who exposed billions of missing petrodollars, a move critics say is a warning to whistleblowers in the run-up t... (photo: Public Domain / ) Houston Chronicle
Central Bank of Nigeria   Lamido Sanusi   Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation   Oil Corruption in Nigeria   Photos   Wikipedia: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi  
EU to rule on state aid for 28 airports, airlines by September EU to rule on state aid for 28 airports, airlines by September
By Foo Yun Chee and Barbara Lewis | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union regulators aim to rule by September whether state aid granted to 28 airports and budget airlines, such as Ryanair, is legal, the... (photo: European Community / EC) The Guardian
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a fundraiser for the Democratic Governors Association, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009 in Washington. Obama, Canadian and Mexican Leaders Wrap Up One Day Summit, Discuss Ukraine
Dan Robinson | WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and the leaders of Mexico and Canada wrapped up a one day North American summit Wednesday on a range of issues, including economic competitiveness,... (photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari) Voa News
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