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We don't want proxy wars in Afghanistan, Karzai says
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday during a visit to Pakistan.
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BP to pay Devon $7 billion for oil fields
LONDON (Reuters) - London-based oil major BP has agreed to buy Brazilian, Azeri and Gulf of Mexico assets from Devon Energy for $7 billion, as the U.S. producer refocuses on onshore U.S. fields.
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House Bans For-Profit Company Earmarks
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House Democrats banned earmarks for private companies in a move that Republicans felt didn’t go far enough, reports the Washington Post. The ban would prevent no-bid grants going to “private firms that can afford to hire well-connected lobbyists to plead their cases.” House Republicans are calling for an earmark ban on nonprofit compani
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US foreclosures drop 2nd straight month in Feb-RealtyTrac
NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) - U.S. mortgage foreclosure
filings dropped for a second straight month in February, and
notched the smallest annual increase in four years as
housing-rescue efforts contained activity, a report released
on Thursday showed.
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Obama: Time for talk is over on healthcare bill
ST. CHARLES, Missouri (Reuters) - President Barack Obama declared on Wednesday the "time for talk is over" and urged the U.S. Congress to vote on healthcare as his health secretary directly challenged insurers to forgo profits to make coverage more affordable.
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FDA rules out bisphosphonate, thigh fracture link
BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said on Wednesday they have found no link between oral bisphosphonate osteoporosis medications such as Merck & Co Inc's Fosamax and certain thigh bone fractures.
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UPDATE 2-Pandit sees 1.25 pct return on Citicorp assets-FT
* Citicorp could earn nearly $20 bln a year by end 2012-FT
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World's mega-rich adding wealth, Carlos Slim No. 1
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, as the wealth of the world's billionaires grew by 50 percent over the last year, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.
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Factbox: Forbes top 20 richest people in the world
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the new richest person in the world, knocking Microsoft founder Bill Gates into second spot, Forbes said on Wednesday
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Best Buy bets on 3D TV, but no quick payoffs seen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar" took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best Buy Co Inc, which is making a big bet on 3D televisions this year.
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NEWSMAKER-World's richest man, Slim, a born wheeler-dealer
* Flagship America Movil is now No. 4 wireless operator
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Arab League chief says Palestinians pull of talks
CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) - Arab League chief Amr Moussa
said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told
him he would not enter indirect talks with Israel.
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Another runaway Toyota Prius reported
DETROIT (Reuters) - Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.
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Corey Haim dies of overdose
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Corey Haim, a Hollywood teen star of the 1980s who became as famous for his struggles with substance abuse as his acting, died in Los Angeles of an apparent drug overdose, police said on Wednesday. He was 38.
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