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US puts Pakistan Taleban on official terrorist register NZ Herald 5:30 AM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print | WASHINGTON - United States officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taleban yesterday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan that ...
U.S. adds Pakistan Taliban to terror list The Star | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday formally added the Pakistani Taliban to its blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations subject to travel and economic sanctions. | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Taliban Movement of Pa...
Texas opens inquiry into Google search results Herald Tribune | WASHINGTON - Google says Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair. AC = 1234 | --> | Google Inc. is facing increased scrutiny in Washington and Europe. Regulators and competitors fear that it has ...
Federal appeals court reinstates Wisconsin's minimum markup law on gasoline Hartford Courant MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated 's 71-year-old minimum markup law on gasoline, a decision that could save some jobs but increase the cost of gas. | Siding with an association representing small gas station owne...
Harley, union agree on labor proposal that could help keep production operations in Wis. Hartford Courant MILWAUKEE (AP) — Motor Co. and its union leaders have reached a proposed labor agreement that would keep manufacturing operations in that have 1,340 active employees. | The company declined to reveal Friday the terms of the proposed contract. S...
Texas attorney general opens antitrust inquiry into fairness of Google search results Hartford Courant — says Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating whether its Web search rankings are fair. | Google Inc. is facing increased scrutiny in Washington and Europe. Regulators and competitors fear that it has too much control over where people g...
McCourt Delves Into Marriage At Divorce Trial The Street LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dodgers owner Frank McCourt described himself Friday as a devoted husband who tried to comply with his wife's exorbitant wishes but stopped when she sought $250 million for her personal use. | Testimony on the fifth day of the di...
Mining Company To Clean Polluted Beach In Wash. The Street SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A Canadian mining company will begin cleaning up a beach on Lake Roosevelt later this month in a show of good faith over efforts to deal with pollution that flowed for a century from a British Columbia smelter into the U.S. | ...
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Wall St ends dismal month on flat note, semis slide The Times Of India NEW YORK: US stocks ended little changed in choppy trading on Tuesday, closing out an August the bulls would like to forget. Positive data surprises sustained a rally for most of t...
US stocks have worst August since 2001 The Australian | THE US stock market ended its worst August since 2001 with meagre gains overnight after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed officials' increasing concern ...
Wall Street turns negative The Times Of India NEW YORK: US stocks turned negative in a volatile session on Tuesday, weighed down by technology, energy and industrial shares. | The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 31.26 poi...
Private Equity Bank Acquisitions Face Hurdles The Street By Maria Woehr 09/03/10 - 10:02 AM EDT Add Comment Stock quotes in this article:STD, BFR, STSA Tweet | NEW YORK(TheStreet) -- There is a growing interest among both U.S. private equity and foreign banks such as Banco Santander( STD), BBVA( BFR)...
Nation briefs Herald Tribune | HONOLULU AC = 1234 | --> | Six are accused | of forced labor | Federal authorities are accusing six people of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work in what the FBI calls the largest human-trafficking case e...
SugarHouse adds finishing touches before opening Sept. 23 Philadelphia Daily News | By Suzette Parmley | Inquirer Staff Writer | It is not faint praise to say that the most striking aspect of the interior of the soon-to-open SugarHouse Casino is the spectacularly inventive use of the exceedingly tight 45,000 square feet. | The col...
Fuld Says Lehman Was Denied the Help Its Rivals Received The New York Times | WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Federal regulators did not give the investment firm Lehman Brothers the same assistance as its competitors, knocking out the possibility of an orderly unwinding of the firm and aggravating the global crisis, Lehman’s former chief executive, Richard S. Fuld Jr., said on Wednesday. | Mr. Fuld will tell a commissio...
Wall Street up on economic growth, manufacturing data m&c | New York - Stocks rose Wednesday on Wall Street, following world markets higher on economic growth in Australia and US manufacturing data. | The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing gauge rose in August, despite predictions it would decline, Bloomberg financial news reported. Australia's gross domestic product rose 1.2 per cent in the ...