NewswireToday (newswire) – 08/31/2010 London, United Kingdom – Specialist restructuring, recovery and insolvency firm, FRP Advisory LLP, discusses HMRC’s Business Payment Support Service, or TTP scheme

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 08/02/2010 Bethlehem, PA United States – BFTP/NEP’s goal is to help lead northeastern Pennsylvania to a better economic future by building partnerships that develop and apply technology for competitive advantage

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The IMF raised its 2010 world growth forecast to 4.6% from 4.1% in April and boosted estimates for the United States and China

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Marketplace (blog) Scam artists flourish in the recession Marketplace (blog) Harris: It means the old check scam that we just talked about. It's the, they're being asked to become an agent of this overseas company in the United …

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 06/10/2010 Phoenix, AZ United States – Local First Arizona economic study finds half-billion dollar annual impact from newly privatized SCF Arizona

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Privatized SCF Arizona Impacts Arizona Economy by Nearly Half Billion

The evy is backed by the United States and Europe but opposed by developing nations plus Canada and Australia, who say their banks did not trigger the 2008-9 crisis and should not have to pay for cleaning up the mess

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India sees no firm deal on bank levy in Busan

Today, the Labor Department released its April survey of unemployment in 372 metropolitan areas across the United States. And it is a very good report: The rate of joblessness dropped in 346 areas, rose in 12 and remained flat in 14. That is a significant month-to-month improvement, as in March, unemployment fell in 257 metro areas and climbed in 89. The report bodes well for Friday’s major jobs report. Economists expect the economy to have added 500,000 jobs and the overall unemployment rate to track down. The data will be slightly skewed because of temporary census hiring. Still, it will hopefully augur an accelerating recovery, given that the weekly initial jobless claims and other metrics have stagnated . Year-on-year, the stats are less good: The unemployment rate rose in 291 metro areas and fell in 73. In April, El Centro, Calif., recorded the highest rate of joblessness — 27.9 percent. The state in general carried the greatest number of hard-hit areas. Of 14 metro areas with unemployment rates above 15 percent, 11 were in California.

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The 10-page draft, agreed by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia after months of negotiations, also calls for international inspection of vessels suspected of carrying cargo related to Iran’s nuclear or missile programs

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 05/17/2010 London, United Kingdom – The change in the UK government looks very good for the UK economy

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Frost & Sullivan Chairman on CNBC – Unprecedented Opportunity for the UK to Develop Centres of Excellence for Smart Technologies

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City man out $2700 on Craigslist transfer scam New Britain Herald The resident reported the incident to police May 5 after he was notified by his bank that a $4500 check sent to him from the United Kingdom was a fake. … and more

The big macroeconomic news today is that the United States’ GDP grew at a 3.2 percent per year pace in the first quarter — the third straight quarter of strong growth, weaker than the 5.6 percent pace in the fourth quarter of 2009 and right in line with economists’ expectations. The Bureau of Economic Analysis cites growth in personal consumption (that is, consumer spending), private inventory investment (stores restocking their shelves), exports and nonresidential fixed investment (business purchases of things like wells, hotels, computer systems and plumbing) as the major factors accounting for the growth. Consumer spending increased at a 3.6 percent pace, the strongest in more than three years. Of course, GDP is just one number among many. But the slowdown in its pace of growth is a sign of how strong the headwinds remain as the government withdraws its crisis programs and unemployment remains high (a lag on GDP growth, because all those unemployed people are not producing much, nor are they consuming much). The stronger the growth, the faster the United States fills its output gap .

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Aussie Investors In Cambridge Capital Scam Restituted On SC Cross-border Probe Bernama … RM2.2 million to 14 Australian investors who were defrauded in the investment scam by Cambridge Capital Trading purportedly based in the United Kingdom. …

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 04/28/2010 Plymouth, IN United States – A trend of women owned and operated businesses is thriving Plymouth, Indiana. Visit the downtown of a small midwestern community in northern Indiana and chances are, you will support a woman owned business. Sign of the economy? We hope so!

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 04/28/2010 London, United Kingdom – Employee confidence in the UK has dropped 8.8% in the first quarter of 2010, according to the latest figures from a quarterly study by Kenexa. This fall means that the UK now has the lowest level of employee confidence in Europe

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Kenexa’s Research Shows UK Employee Confidence Decreased 8.8% in the First Quarter

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 04/26/2010 Bethlehem, PA United States – Ben Franklin promotes, sustains and invests in the transformation of our regional economy through innovation and partnering

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 04/21/2010 Bethlehem, PA United States – Ben Franklin promotes, sustains and invests in the transformation of our regional economy through innovation and partnering

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 04/06/2010 Scottsdale, AZ United States – Build Your Wealth announced today that they have launched a new website

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 03/08/2010 Orlando, FL United States – Legal professionals are finding ways to set themselves apart from their competition. The Azam Law Firm of Lake Mary, Florida, is one of the firms using a flat fee rate rather than hourly billing for legal representation

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G20 countries had been coordinating efforts to create a strong banking landscape, but the United States and other countries have also put forward separate proposals

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 02/17/2010 Los Angeles, CA United States – Entertainment, international trade and tourism cited as regional industry leaders, with an economic boost from major infrastructure projects and a modest rebound in residential real estate measured economic recovery is underway in the nation

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Two data points that are almost certainly connected. First : Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit on Dec. 25, started talking to investigators after two of his family members arrived in the United States and helped earn his cooperation, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening. And second : America’s top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months. The assessment by Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence, was much starker than his view last year, when he emphasized the considerable progress in the campaign to debilitate Al Qaeda and said that the global economic meltdown, rather than the prospect of a major terrorist attack, was the “primary near-term security concern of the United States.” No threat determination like that is ever the result of one line of intelligence. But it’s impossible to believe Abdulmutallab’s resumed cooperation — the subject of heavy administration pushback to its critics, as Josh Marshall observes , after two weeks of attack following Blair’s disastrous congressional testimony — did not inform the assessment. The Times: Another federal official said Mr. Abdulmutallab had provided information about people he met in Yemen, where he is believed to have receiving training and explosives from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a branch of the terrorist network. “He’s retracing his activities over there,” said the official, who would discuss the case only on the condition of anonymity. “You run to ground what he tells you, validate it and follow up. You build a relationship. It’s a pretty standard process.” And that cooperation would not have come without Abdulmutallab’s family trying to get him the best deal they can from federal prosecutors. Welcome to a law-enforcement-informed approach to terrorism.

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When Osama bin Laden is so desperate for international support that he’ll start making an environmentalist case against the United States , something is going very right. Still, Get Energy Smart Now is trying to stop the stupidity before it starts : Turning the world back to the 12th century, including killing off perhaps 95 percent or so of the world’s population supportable without modern technology and with women suppressed without health care (dying in child birth), might well actually address “climate change” in an incredibly dystopian and immoral fashion. (Oops, moral in your distorted lens on the world.) … That bin Laden is able to, via his distorted lens, gain a glimpse of reality and understand that climate change is a serious issue meriting attention doesn’t suddenly make climate change unreal even though there will be those who seize on this to say things like “bin Laden is against it, therefore I’m for it …” The path “to stop” climate change is not to “bring the wheels of the American economy” to a halt, but to turn those wheels toward the creation of a clean-energy future … to help Saudi Arabia turn itself into the “Saudi Arabia of Solar Power” … to aid Afghanis prosper with micro-hydro and wind power and efficient lighting … to tap geothermal power in nation’s around the world …

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Rolf Mowatt-Larsen, a longtime intelligence official who works at the nexus of al-Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction, writes that al-Qaeda “has been far more sophisticated in its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction than is commonly believed.” And there’s no reason whatsoever to disbelieve him. But what ought to be pointed out is al-Qaeda’s capabilities, not just its aspirations. For one thing, al-Qaeda has failed for over a decade to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Mowatt-Larsen notes that al-Qaeda accordingly scaled back its ambitions to get nuclear weapons in favor of less-lethal but relatively easier to acquire bioweapons. But even that effort was dealt a setback by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Instead, look at the pattern of recent al-Qaeda attacks or potentially al-Qaeda-inspired attacks. Lots of big-devastation conventional impact attacks in south Asia and the Middle East, with occasional forays into Europe and southeast Asia. In the United States, a failed attempt at conventional explosions of an aircraft — damaging if it would have succeeded, but it would have killed an order of magnitude fewer people than the sophisticated and complex attack on 9/11 to turn several planes into missiles and fly them into strategic targets. There’s an argument to be had over whether to put Nidal Malik Hasan’s attack on Fort Hood into the “al-Qaeda-inspired” category. If you do, you get a successful attack that killed 13 people and wounded 45, not dozens, let alone hundreds or the thousands killed on 9/11. Then you get a criminal claiming after the fact that his murder of a soldier outside a Little Rock recruiting office was connected to al-Qaeda. And failed efforts that were busted up before they reached fruition, as with Najibullah Zazi. All this is why in the just-published issue of a bulletin published by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center , Martha Crenshaw, a terrorism scholar with the Center for International Security and Cooperation , concludes: Al-Qa`ida is declining, but it is still a dangerous organization. It is not a mass popular movement, but rather a complex, transnational, and multilayered organization with both clandestine and above-ground elements. It has proved durable and persistent. The determination of its leaders to attack the United States is undiminished and might strengthen as the organization is threatened, but another attack on the scale of 9/11 is unlikely. None of this is to say that vigilance against the prospect of an al-Qaeda WMD attack is unwarranted. But it is a call to put the chances of one into perspective.

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In case I left the impression in my previous post that the elevation of British diplomat Mark Sedwill to a new senior NATO civilian envoy to Afghanistan was a demotion for U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, let me correct it straight away. In Eikenberry’s dour November cables warning about the treacherous road ahead in Afghanistan, he explicitly called for a new NATO civilian partner for Gen. McChrystal to equalize civilian and military efforts : The proposed strategy does not remedy an inadequate civilian structure. There is no civilian organizational counterpart to ISAF and no political leadership equivalent to NATO-ISAF commander [Gen. Stanley McChrystal], a deficiency that hampers civilian effectiveness and heavily skews the NATO-ISAF dialogue with the Afghan government. UNAMA [the United Nations mission to Afghanistan] is not capable of coordinating all the civilian efforts, because its role is not to serve as the civilian policy and program counterpart to NATO-ISAF. … [O]ur coalition efforts will remain less than optimum unless a stronger civilian structure is created. That structure will be formally unveiled on Thursday in London.

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Eikenberry’s Dire Cables Asked for a Top NATO Civilian in Afghanistan

Norwalk man busted for alleged check -cashing scam The Hour Hawkins had been a customer of United Check Cashing on Main Avenue since April, so management didn't think twice when he began cashing payroll checks from …

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In their joint opening statement to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, and Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, squared up to a point I’ve been making for nearly a month about Northwest Flight 253 : Within the Intelligence Community we had strategic intelligence that al Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had the intention of taking action against the United States prior to the failed attack on December 25th, but, we did not direct more resources against AQAP, nor insist that the watchlisting criteria be adjusted prior to the event . In addition, the Intelligence Community analysts who were working hard on immediate threats to Americans in Yemen did not understand the fragments of intelligence on what turned out later to be Mr. Abdulmutallab, so they did not push him onto the terrorist watchlist. How will the watchlisting standards change? And how will they change so as not to overwhelm intelligence analysts with data?

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Blair and Leiter: We Should’ve Changed the Watchlist Criteria

Mark Leon Goldberg has a wonderful Daily Beast piece about the Haiti that the U.S. rarely sees: the functioning society that arduously got built in the 1990s and 2000s, only to be ravaged by manmade and now natural disaster. This is Haiti’s tragedy: Just as the trend lines shift in the right direction, calamity strikes. But even with our limited and early information, the January 12, 2010 quake seems beyond comparison. Hospitals have crumbled and city blocks are flattened. Even the presidential palace, which presumably would be among the sturdiest of buildings, has caved in on itself. This is clearly a scary time for Haiti. Still, Haitians can take some comfort in its unique relationship with the United States. For one, the country has a champion in the husband of the current secretary of state. In May 2009, former President Bill Clinton was appointed a UN Special Envoy to Haiti, meaning that even as the public’s focus turns away from Haiti in the coming weeks, he will remain a high profile advocate for reconstruction. Also, a large and politically active Haitian Diaspora community in the United States ensures that Congress will keep an eye on Haiti’s progress. I grew up in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large Haitian population, so I got a flavor of Haitian culture at a young age. It’s distressing that American cameras are only interested in a Caribbean neighbor with such close and historical ties to the U.S. when disaster strikes.

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With all the necessary caveats about polling in Afghanistan, this new BBC poll finds a surprisingly robust acceptance among Afghans for the U.S. troop presence : Of more than 1,500 Afghans questioned, 70% said they believed Afghanistan was going in the right direction – a big jump from 40% a year ago. Of those questioned, 68% now back the presence of US troops in Afghanistan, compared with 63% a year ago. For Nato troops, including UK forces, support has risen from 59% to 62%. These are eye-opening numbers considering the results of the last BBC poll on Afghanistan , which the British news agency published in September. Back then, only 44 percent believed their country was on the right track. (A near-contemporaneous poll from the International Republican Institute pegged that right-track number at 62 percent.) While I can’t find an exact question in the previous poll about the presence of U.S. troops, only 47 percent had positive feelings about the United States in September. So perhaps the poll is an outlier. But if not, then Gen. McChrystal may have been on to something when he contended that the behavior of U.S. forces was more important than the presence of U.S. forces in terms of Afghan perceptions of occupation.

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 01/08/2010 Skokie, IL United States – Despite job losses, labor conditions improve better than forecasted

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Chinese Looking in America, but Not Buying New York Times Direct investment by Chinese companies in the United States grew to $1.2 billion in 2008 from $385 million in 2002, a 220 percent increase, government data … and more

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), chairman of an airline safety panel, will hold hearings early next year to examine the holes in airport screening that allowed a 23-year-old Nigerian to smuggle plastic explosives onto a plane bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. “We have to fully investigate this incident to find accountability for the breakdown in security procedures,” Dorgan said in a statement issued today. It appears to me that there were serious failures in sharing information among intelligence and other agencies that allowed this alleged terrorist to board an international flight to the United States. Aside from the reports that the father of the alleged terrorist alerted our intelligence officials about his son, and that fact that his son was on a watch list, an alert should have been raised due simply to his purchase of an airline ticket with cash and his lack of luggage. We need to find out what is working and what is failing in our intelligence sharing. Dorgan said that hearings on the security breach — as well as those tackling broader transportation security issues — will be scheduled “in the coming weeks.” The North Dakota Democrat also chastised Republicans for using the incident for political purposes, urging the attackers to ”knock it off.” “Our country deserves better than to have people try to use a terrorist attack for political gain,” Dorgan said.

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The longtime CNN anchor has targeted “illegal aliens” for years now, publicly blaming them for everything from violent crime to failing schools to drug gangs and lethal communicable diseases. As advocates pushed for a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year, they perceived Dobbs and his platform at CNN as a primary obstacle. Dobbs held the power to sway public opinion against legalization (what Dobbs derisively calls “amnesty”) for any of the approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants who live and work in the United States. Then in November, after months of halfheartedly trying to muzzle himself on the issue following a directive from his boss, Dobbs gave up and announced his resignation from CNN. Immigrants’ advocates cheered. Dobbs isn’t likely to disappear, however. Many expect him to run for political office, which may be why in late November he was telling Spanish-language television that legalization of some illegal immigrants wouldn’t be so bad after all, “under certain conditions.” Click here to replay slideshow.

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In his press briefing yesterday, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly took a beating over the fact that department bureaucrats didn’t revoke Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s visa to enter the United States. Kelly, in something of a defensive crouch, said that it was the responsibility of an interagency effort run by the National Counterterrorism Center to order the department to revoke the visa. I’ve contacted NCTC to solicit a response, but no luck yet. In the meantime, I’ve talked to people who’ve directly processed foreigners’ visas. Long story short: It’s even harder for State to revoke a visa than Kelly made it sound. First things first. Like Kelly said, State consular officers need to receive affirmative word from the interagency process that someone is a terror suspect or other security risk before it can revoke a visa on those grounds. Where State does have grounds to revoke a visa unilaterally is if officers catch visa recipients in a lie or violation, such as overstaying a visa’s duration. In those cases, which typically occur when someone reapplies for a visa, officers would have to present the recipient with evidence for why they were revoking his or her visa. Consular officers can tap into the so-called TIDE database of 550,000 names of people who the intelligence community suspects might cause the U.S. harm. But that occurs, typically, when an officer is issuing a visa in the first place. Officers don’t get pinged every time someone gets added to TIDE. Taken together, all that means in practice that State Department officers were not going to revoke Abdulmutallab’s visa. That visa was issued in June 2008, long before anyone had any suspicions about him, and good until June 2010. Making matters more complicated, Abdulmutallab got his visa in London, but it was U.S. embassy officials in Abuja who learned about the threat he posed after his father warned them in November. They entered him into TIDE. The issuing consular office might very well not have known about it. Absent a determination from NCTC that didn’t occur, no one in the State Department was going to yank the visa. And if some clever consular officers decided to skirt the rules, they would still have to alert Abdulmutallab to the revocation — and hope they didn’t tip him off to the fact that U.S. authorities were monitoring him. I don’t know exactly what the procedure is for the State Department to have known that the U.K. actually denied him a visa in May. Given that Abdulmutallab wasn’t a U.S. citizen, there may not have been a procedure mandating notification. The U.K. didn’t turn him down for terrorism suspicions; the Brits turned him down because his academic pretext for staying in Britain was dubious. None of this should be interpreted as an argument for the merits of the current system. It’s just an explanation of how the system currently works, and one that underscores the difficulty of changing it.

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After eight years of a do-nothing, industry-cozy Environmental Protection Agency, green activists had high hopes for the new EPA administrator, appointed by a president who put climate policy near the top of his agenda. They soon had to lower their expectations, as Jackson took a hesitant and incremental approach to rolling back the highly controversial — and destructive — practice of mountaintop coal mining. But for all its wavering, the EPA took a truly historic step on Dec. 7 when it issued its long-awaited endangerment finding , which concluded that rising greenhouse gas levels posed a public health threat and enabled the agency to regulate these gases. Few expect Jackson to bear down on carbon emissions with a heavy hand, but her action served two important purposes: It showed international negotiators at the climate talks in Copenhagen that the United States was serious about cutting its emissions; and, more importantly, it put pressure on Congress to pass a comprehensive climate bill on its own terms. Next — 4. Phil Jones

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Nowhere in the Constitution is Congress empowered to require Americans to buy health insurance, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) charged today. “I am seriously concerned that the Democrats’ health reform bill violates the Constitution of the United States of America,” Ensign said in a statement. “Is it really constitutional for this body to tell all Americans that they MUST buy health insurance coverage?” Two thoughts: First, whatever Congress is empowered to do is not, ultimately, for Congress to decide — that’s a job for the courts. (And you can bet that there will be no absence of lawsuits if the individual mandate survives the process to become law.) And second, why should Congress tolerate a system under which folks without insurance can still receive emergency care on everyone else’s dime? Indeed, even former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a thoracic surgeon, has said that requiring everyone to buy into coverage pools is “about the only way” to fix the nation’s dysfunctional health care system. “We have 46 million people who don’t have insurance out there,” Frist told the Fox Business Network in September. “Somebody’s going to have to pay for that. If they can pay for it, they should be responsible to paying for it. And, if not, there are going to be taxes, excise taxes, user taxes on companies like Aetna, on individuals. “And I’m hard-core Republican,” Frist added.

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 12/21/2009 Muscat, Ruwi United Arab Emirates – Oman International Trade and Exhibitions (OITE), the premier events company from the Sultanate of Oman announces its newly setup partnership with Kuwait International Fair (KIF) aimed at organising three major international fairs during 2010

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As the internet buzzed about this awkward confrontation between Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), I remembered Franken’s novel “Why Not Me?” in which he runs for president, wins and resigns in disgrace. In the book, Franken chooses Lieberman as his running mate… which makes Lieberman, eventually, the 44th President of the United States. Below the jump, check out the “news”: And here’s the punchline, the coverage of the Franken-Lieberman ticket in the Arabic press.

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EU ministers, leaders say talks in “serious trouble”; top two emitters China and United States blamed for breakdown of talk

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The protest held up a session due to start at 1030 GMT, just four days before a summit of 110 leaders aims to agree on a United Nations pact to combat global warming

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Does the United States have to remain in Afghanistan until Osama bin Laden is captured? And will the war be incomplete until that happens? Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) wanted to know. Gen. Stanley McChrystal neglects the first question and answers the second. “I believe al-Qaeda can be defeated overall,” McChrystal said, and bin Laden is “an iconic leader … he does need to be brought to justice.” But while he appeared to say — he didn’t make it 100 percent clear — that killing or capturing bin Laden is necessary, “I don’t believe simply getting him will end the organization.” Update : Apologies to Rep. Bilirakis for initially misidentifying him as a Democrat.

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NewswireToday (newswire) – 11/05/2009 Manchester, MA United States – Companies battered by shrinking revenues and discouraged employees will benefit

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