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| GE Capital to Raise $10 Billion in Biggest Sale of FDIC Notes GE Capital Corp., the lending arm of Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric Co., plans to raise $10 billion in the biggest offering of debt backed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. since the program began. |
Biofuel from Algae?: Ask UNH UNH received a $135276
grant from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology to fund its
research. The grant is one of three awarded Popular Connecticut Solar Rebate Fund Dries Up 18 Months Early Connecticut’s rebate program for home and business owners who purchase solar systems was so popular that the funds backing it have been all used up. |
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A new ‘band of brothers’? Vets make up 25 percent of homeless ...
The Ponzi Scheme in Every Hedge Fund The Purple Heart will not be awarded to service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the Pentagon confirmed Monday. War Vets With Headaches Could Have Brain Problems Headache frequency and severity caused by traumatic brain injury might signal cognitive deficits, suggests a new study of Iraq war Bush library donors to be kept secret Donors to the new presidential library probably will remain a mystery, according to the nonprofit foundation overseeing Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service (Plum Creek won't pave logging roads) |
No Purple Hearts for PTSD, Pentagon rules The Purple Heart will not
be awarded to service members suffering from post-traumatic stress
disorder, the Pentagon confirmed Monday. Gov't supplies another $15B to banks The latest payments bring the amount the government has committed to buying bank stock as a way of bolstering the financial system to $187.5 billion. Treasury said it has provided support to financial institutions in 41 states and Puerto Rico. ACORN voter registration recruiter charged with voter registration fraud Coal Ash Disaster: Test Show Arsenic at 300x Normal Level in Water |
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U.S. seeks to revoke Madoff bail U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to
revoke the bail terms for alleged swindler Bernard Madoff and detain him
on Monday, claiming he was a flight risk. Passenger forced to cover Arabic T-shirt receives $330,000 compensation |
Homeland Security to Ease Rules on Federal Contractors' Hiring of
Illegal Immigrants In a concession to business groups, the Homeland
Security Department will significantly scale back its planned crackdown
this winter on federal contractors that hire illegals
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Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former
White House chief of staff
Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized
for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said
on Monday. Obama CIA pick displeases Dem senator Franken declares Senate race win after state ruling but Won’t Be Seated Yet Burris plans to show up at Senate chambers Tuesday Roland Burris, appointed by Illinois' controversial governor to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, planned to go to Washington on Monday as top Democrats and Republicans meet to try to work out a bipartisan solution to the Senate dilemma. More on Obama's Tax Cut |
Obama taps Clinton-era lawyers for Justice Dept President-elect
Barack Obama filled top Justice Department posts on Monday with four
former Clinton administration lawyers Obama: $500 Tax Cuts For Most Workers Mr. Obama's proposal to stimulate the economy includes tax cuts of up to $300 billion, including $500 tax cuts for most workers and $1,000 for couples, as well as more than $100 billion for businesses, an Obama transition official said. The Bill Richardson Wreck Obama's Commerce secretary pick pulls a U-turn, but there was a long road of problems behind him. |
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Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan detentions continue on an even
greater scale at the U.S.
military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, 40 miles north of Kabul.
Approximately 250 detainees are currently being held at Guantanamo; an
estimated 670 are locked up under similar conditions at Bagram. Court: IDs of reportedly abused detainees can be secret A federal appeals court has ruled that the government can keep secret the identities of detainees allegedly abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. |
Judge orders release of 5 Guantanamo detainees In the first ruling
of its kind, a federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five
Algerian men after concluding the government didn't have the evidence to
hold them for nearly seven years in Guantanamo Bay prison. Judge orders 17 Guantanamo detainees released to US In a dramatic setback for the Bush administration, a federal judge ordered the U.S. government Tuesday to immediately release and transfer to the United States 17 Chinese-born Muslims detained for almost seven years at Guantanamo. |
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Judge allows Islamic charity to challenge Bush wiretap program
U.S. District Judge
Vaughn Walker said there is enough primary evidence showing the
charity may have been the target of government-tapped telephone
calls that were done without court approval under the
administration's so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program. The U.S.
lists the Saudi Arabia-based charity as a terrorist organization.
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Gasoline price up first time in 16 weeks Mideast, Russia issues send oil above $47 Israel's ground offensive in Gaza and a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over gas imports pushed oil prices above $47 a barrel Monday, but some analysts say there's more thanjust unrest in the Middle East behind the rally. |
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| Ford’s U.S. sales fell 32 percent in December | Treasury to grant GM additional $5.4-billion loan on Jan. 16 |
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US inaugurates new $700 million embassy in Baghdad (AP) he United
States inaugurated its largest embassy ever on Monday, officially
opening a fortress-like compound in the heart of the
Green Zone as a testament to America's commitment to
Iraq. Security developments in Iraq, Jan 5 Turkey, Iran bombard Kurdish rebels in Iraq: PKK Turkish warplanes and Iranian artillery bombarded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq on Monday, a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) spokesman said. Maliki seeks Iran help to rebuild Iraq "I personally hope that trade ties between the two countries will focus on quicker reconstruction and progress," in Iraq, Maliki added No sight of Parliament Speaker candidate Iraqis call for justice in Blackwater deaths The high-profile incident damaged Iraq-US relations and led to widespread calls for reform of private security contractors, who at the time operated freely US college plans to expand in Iraq A US college with a campus in Baghdad says it plans to open three more sites for US soldiers in Iraq within the next five years. |
Iranian Resistance Group a Source of Contention in Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki declared Jan. 1 the "day of sovereignty" and
congratulated his compatriots for having waited so long. He also warned
that an Iranian resistance group,
the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK),
would no longer be able to have a base on Iraqi territory Police arrest Shiite cult leader in Iraq Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a leading figure in a messianic Shiite cult that has battled with Iraqi and U.S. forces, possibly thwarting plans by the group to carry out attacks against hundreds of thousands of pilgrims that will gather next week at one of Iraq's holiest shrines. Mechanism to grant Iraq unemployed ... Labor and Social Affairs Ministry announced that it has put forth a mechanism to grant financial donations for unemployed in Iraq. Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society and infrastructure. |
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Iran says 70,000 volunteer for Israel fight (AP) More than 70,000
Iranian students have volunteered to carry out suicide bombings against
Israel,
Iran's
state news agency
reported Monday, but
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not responded to their request
for permission. Group: Israel deliberately attacked journos Israel deliberately targeted Hamas-run media installations in its bombing campaign on Gaza and is practising media censorship, a journalist rights group said Monday. Egypt Stops U.S. Diplomat from Entering Country Following a decision by Egypt to respond to inappropriate treatment of Egyptian diplomats abroad with similar treatment of foreign diplomats coming to Egypt, European diplomats have not been allowed to enter Egypt. However, this is the first such incident involving a U.S. diplomat. Egypt holds emergency meeting with Al Qaeda linked Somali sheikh According to the website AllAfrica.com, one of the UN's most wanted terrorists with links to Al Qaeda, Sheikh Aweys, is going to the Egyptian capital Cairo Kids' Gaza horrors spur worries of future violence The children in the Gaza conflict have seen terrible images of tragedy: their friends injured or killed and bloodied bodies in the streets. They are images young Mohammed says he will never forget. He'll keep them stored away until he's old enough to do something about it Airstrike destroys prominent Gaza school An Israeli airstrike flattened one of Gaza's best private educational institutions, the American International School, which had been attacked a year ago by Islamic militants. |
Hamas official defiant over rocket strikes A senior Hamas official
said Monday that the Gaza leadership won't end rocket attacks on Israel,
despite the reported deaths of 500 people during Israeli reprisals. Three IDF soldiers killed, one critically wounded in Gaza blast Friendly fire from IDF tank caused deaths; IDF Colonel, 20 other soldiers wounded in incident Saudi Arabia Launches Campaign To Provide Humanitarian Assistance The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia launched "the Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques Campaign to Provide Humanitarian Relief to the Palestinian People in Gaza." Israelis deny using phosphorus The US used phosphorus during the siege of Falluja in Iraq in 2004. It said it used the substance to smoke out enemy forces, not to kill them. US troops 'monitoring Rafah crossing' US troops are helping Egypt prevent "arms smuggling" from tunnels in the Rafah border-crossing, as Israel continues its attacks on Gaza. If you want peace … All throughout the “peace process” years — through the good ones and through the bad ones — Israel continued expanding both the geographical footprint of its settlements and the population living upon them. Misery as Shortages, Attacks Grip Gaza Civilians |
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Taliban whopper: claim 5,220 foreign troops killed (AP) The
Taliban has long exaggerated its military successes, but
its figures for 2008 may be the militia's most startling claims
yet. Military weapons depot looted Three armed men stormed a military base guardhouse in the southern Zealand town of Slagelse on Sunday, making off with a cache of weapons that included automatic rifles, semi-automatic pistols and ammunition. Shias return from exile to a more tolerant Afghanistan But in Afghanistan, a Sunni-dominated country where Shias have been a despised and oppressed minority during many periods of history Trench Warfare With The Taliban It has emerged that UK forces in Afghanistan battled the Taliban at close quarters, knee-0deep in mud in fighting reminiscent of the First World War Three Afghans wounded at police checkpoint Three Afghans were wounded at a police checkpoint in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar on Jan. 1 when the vehicle they were traveling in failed to stop when warned. The incident occurred at approximately 4 p.m. North-south security divide could sway Afghan vote Voter registration in southern Afghanistan, where NATO-led and Afghan forces are struggling against a resurgent Taliban, will start in two weeks. If security does not improve, fewer people in the south would be expected to vote than in the north. 651 schools close in southern Afghanistan The ministry plans for next year is to open schools in southern Afghanistan with the help of local councils and tribal elders. |
NATO, Afghan forces kill nine rebels in Kandahar Nine
Taliban militants were killed in a gunfight early Monday by
Afghan and NATO troops in the southern Afghan province of
Kandahar, a senior police official said. The gunfight erupted
after Taliban-linked militants attacked Afghan and NATO security
forces in the restive province's Panjwayi district. Macedonia sends more troops to Afghanistan Macedonia sent a new batch of 150 troops to Afghanistan on Monday to join the international peacekeeping mission on the ground, Female Afghan police officers brave death threats Less than four months after gunmen assassinated the highest-ranking female police officer in Afghanistan, members of the unit she founded are trying to continue her mission despite death threats. Afghans condemn NATO troops during anti-Israel protests Carrying banners reading "Death upon Israel" and shouting against "the enemies of Muslims," hundreds of Afghans converged on the Kandahar's city centre Monday to angrily denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza. Britain details muddy battles with Taliban in Afghanistan British, Afghan and coalition forces captured four key Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan during a massive operation Taliban militants destroy health center in S Afghanistan Taliban militants destroyed a clinic in southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial official said on Monday. |
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| India hands Mumbai attacks file to Pakistan Phone records, captured weapons and statements by the sole surviving suspect in November's Mumbai massacre are among the evidence India's government handed over to Pakistan on Monday, its foreign ministry announced. |
Security developments in Pakistan, Jan 5 Repatriation of US-held scientist sought Pakistan yesterday again asked for the repatriation on humanitarian grounds of a Pakistani neuroscientist held in the US on charges that she tried to murder US officers in Afghanistan. |
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India signs $2.1 billion defense deal with Boeing (Reuters)
India has signed a $2.1 billion contract with leading
U.S. aircraft manufacturer
Boeing Co for naval patrol aircraft as part of an
overhaul of the South Asian nation's mainly old Soviet military
hardware. China arrested almost 1,300 in Muslim west last year: report China arrested almost 1,300 people for terrorism, religious extremism or other state security charges in the country's Muslim-majority western Xinjiang region last year, state press said Sunday. China faces wave of unrest in 2009 China risks a wave of protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent among migrant workers and university graduates, a state-run magazine has said in one of the bluntest alarms yet of rising unrest. |
China's growing rich poor gap China's economy may be booming
but not everyone is getting rich. Concerns of civilian deaths rise in Sri Lanka Nigeria's restive south has trimmed the country's daily oil output by 12,000 barrels. China targets Google in crackdown on pornography China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google. Toyota to suspend production for 11 days in Japan Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday it will suspend production at all of its Japanese plants for a total of 11 days in February and March because of faltering global demand. |
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Masked gunmen attack riot police in Athens Gunmen fired automatic
weapons at Greek riot police in Athens Monday, seriously injuring a
policeman in an attack police said looked like the work of one of the
country's leading Marxist militant groups. Tables to reveal male-female pay gap Government draws up amendment to equality bill which will require firms to publish pay band statistics |
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'link several Greek attacks' Weapons used to shoot a police unit in
Greece overnight are linked to two previous attacks, including one by an
anti-US militant group, police say The Myth Of Putin's Popularity Outside observers often marvel at how "popular" Putin is among Russians, but inside the Kremlin they are aware of how thin that popularity is and that troubles them. |
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| British reporter tells of mock execution in Somali 'hell-hole' A British journalist held hostage in a Somali "hell-hole" for almost six weeks told on Monday how kidnappers at one point put a gun to his head and acted out a mock execution. | Explosion cuts daily oil output by 12,000 barrels |
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| Amazon killings go on despite Chico Mendes' legacy (AP) More than 1,100 activists, small farmers, judges, priests and other rural workers have been killed in disputes over preserving land | Citgo suspends heating oil aid for U.S. poor The Andean nation attributed the move to the sharp drop in the price of oil as well as the spreading world economic crisis |
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