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US starts to unwind state bank supportThe US is starting to pare back its emergency support for banks and financial markets, Treasury secretary Tim Geithner declared, saying that the financial system no longer needed extensive government props
FT Friday, September 11, 2009Obama speech galvanises opponentsUnited States President Barack Obama's speech on health reform appears to have pushed his opponents to take fresh - and unprecedented - action.
iol.co.za Friday, September 11, 2009Behind the Afghan Embassy Scandal, a Cost-Cutting Security FirmTo squeeze a profit out of the operation, the company in charge of security in Kabul allegedly had to cut corners
TIME Friday, September 11, 2009Attacks on Indian Students in Australia Raise Cries of RacismRace and discrimination are raw topics in Australia these days, after a series of violent assaults and robberies on Indian students over the last 18 months that have strained relations between Australia and India
TIME Friday, September 11, 2009Istanbul buries dead after fatal floodsA day after deadly water roared through this city, killing dozens of residents, hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque for the funerals of seven women who drowned in a minivan.
CNN Friday, September 11, 2009Hariri fails to form cabinet, resignsJPost, Conservative, Jerusalem, Israel
World Press Friday, September 11, 2009Australian teenager faces jail over home abortionTimes Online, Conservative daily, London, England
World Press Friday, September 11, 2009Suicide Truck Bombing Kills 20 in Kurdish Village in Northern IraqBAGHDAD, Sept. 10 -- A man driving a truck laden with explosives plowed his vehicle into a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn Thursday, killing 20 people, wounding 27 and wrecking dozens of houses, officials said, in the latest attack aimed at deepening strife among the region's tapestry...
Washington Post Friday, September 11, 2009Rebuilding at World Trade Center Site Long DelayedNEW YORK, Sept. 10 -- In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldering, political leaders from New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to President George W. Bush vowed to quickly rebuild the site, bigger and better than before.
Washington Post Friday, September 11, 2009Ex-Manager: More Excesses By U.S. Embassy GuardsA week after photographs emerged of U.S. Embassy guards in Afghanistan taking part in raucous, drunken parties, there is a new allegation that some may have been involved in sex trafficking.
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