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Unemployment rates drop in most states, Illinois climbs
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unemployment rates dropped in 43 out of the 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia in April from a year before, according to Labor Department data released on Friday.A handful
Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
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ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country
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California approves Tesoro's buy of BP refinery
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WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp has received formal approval from California's attorneygeneral to buy a BP Plc refinery for more than $2billion.Attorney General Kamala Harris
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Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
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ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country
Rome protest turns up heat on new PM Letta
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ROME (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country
France's Hollande signs gay marriage law
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings.France's official journal announced
Obama budget cuts deficit $1.1 trillion over decade: CBO
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama's 2014 budget plan would be higher than those forecast by the Congressional Budget Office this week but $1.1 trillion lower than
Police clash with youth in Cairo after anti-Mursi protest
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces clashed with young men in central Cairo after a protest by several thousand opponents of President Mohamed Mursi, state news agency MENA reported.The forces
Sacramento Kings owners reach deal to sell team to local investors
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(Reuters) - The owners of the Sacramento Kings basketball franchise have struck a tentative deal to sell the California team to local investors after the National Basketball Association denied a proposal
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STOCKS-NEWS-MIDEAST-Saudi heavyweights lead stocks rise
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0834 GMT-Saudi stocks rise in early trade on Saturday as thekingdom's benchmark all-share index gains 0.3 percent to7,168.95 points, supported by shares of heavyweights Saudi BasicIndustries Corporation
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Wall Street Week Ahead: Correction talk gets old as rally sails along
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the broad S&P 500 Index <.SPX> gliding once again into uncharted territory and posting four straight weeks of gains, the talk of Wall Street's rally inevitably hitting a
Obama seeks to cut Afghan war spending by 10 pct
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WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama onFriday trimmed his funding request for the war in Afghanistanand other overseas operations by 10 percent, reflecting hisplans to wind down the
RPT-UPDATE 5-Oil rises towards $105, shrugs off firm dollar
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* Brent crude heads for weekly gain on dip-buying* Dollar rises near 10-month high* Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline stops again - source* Evidence mounts of slower U.S. economic growth (Updates prices, repeats
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Dane Hoyer Larsen elected BWF president
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Badminton's world governing body (BWF) will create a separate commission to deal with match-fixing problems, Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen said after being elected president on Saturday.Denmark's
Polish conservative opposition leads opinion poll
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party has overtaken the ruling Civic Platform in an opinion poll released on Saturday, showing the government may be increasingly vulnerable
Sarah Connolly wins UK classical music's top live singing award
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LONDON (Reuters) - Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and Scottish pianist Steven Osborne took two of the top awards for live British classical music on Tuesday at the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Music
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Amid frenzy over map apps, new focus on 16th century world view
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing attention on an antique cosmology printed in 1507 that serves as
China April housing inflation quickens to two year high
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's housing inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in April in two years, driven by a jump in prices in Beijing and Shanghai, complicating the task of policymakers trying to
Suspected Islamist gunmen assassinate Yemeni colonel
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ADEN (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni military intelligence officer who had been targeted for assassination by al Qaeda-linked militants, a local security official said.Colonel Abdullah al-Rabaki
