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This year there will be elections to choose mayors and councillors here in Brazil. In some ways, these elections measures the influence and prestige which governors (and also the President) have in major capitals of the country. It is a preparation...
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Realtors group says sales of existing homes fell more sharply than expected in June as the housing industry continued to be bruised by the worst slump in more than two...
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Democrat Barack Obama has opened a big lead among Hispanic voters, winning support from the vast majority of those who had voted for rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the...
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Crews are cleaning more than 400,000 gallons of oil from a closed stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Wachovia Corp.’s President and Chief Executive Robert Steel has bought 1 million shares in the nation’s fourth-largest bank, according to a regulatory...
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Stocks are falling in early trading as investors sift through another stream of earnings reports and await the release of key housing data.
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The nation’s two satellite radio companies have agreed to pay $19.7 million to settle rules violations, a move that is expected to lead to quick approval of their...
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Pamela Anderson is shacking up with Tommy Lee again _ but not like that.
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Key issues in relations between Germany and the United States as the 2008 U.S. presidential election approaches:
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The nation’s two satellite radio companies say they are negotiating a $19 million payment for violating Federal Communications rules.
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The government reports that the number of newly laid off people filing claims for unemployment benefits bolted past 400,000 last week as companies trimmed their work...
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Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of chips that run cell phones, issued revised earning estimates Thursday that fall short of Wall Street targets.
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Widespread flooding was expected Thursday from Hurricane Dolly that has loitered as a tropical storm overnight, soaking deep south Texas and northeastern Mexico with...
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AutoNation says its second-quarter profit tumbled 33 percent as its sales fell on a drop in vehicle demand.
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Two friends of former police officer Drew Peterson told a newspaper he made incriminating statements during secretly taped conversations following the disappearance of...
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Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of chips that run cell phones, issued revised earning estimates Thursday that fall short of Wall Street targets.
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Regional bank National City Corp. on Thursday reported a huge loss for the second quarter, as mortgage loans soured and it took a big charge related to previous...
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Some 90 million barrels of oil and nearly a third of the world’s undiscovered natural gas remain untapped under an area north of the Arctic Circle, government...
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Oil producer Occidental Petroleum Corp. says its second-quarter profit rose 62 percent as record crude prices and higher production propelled results.
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E.W. Scripps says second-quarter profit fell 48 percent on a sharp revenue decline at its newspaper properties and costs related to splitting off its digital...
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E.W. Scripps says second-quarter profit fell 48 percent on a sharp revenue decline at its newspaper properties and costs related to splitting off its digital...
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I am bemused by varieties of reaction to the cash in the Parliament episode. I am not shocked. I am told by the media that this has happened before in our parliament...
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The Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries in terms of the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and...
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A federal jury has convicted a former Tennessee state senator for taking money from government contractors and lobbying for them while he served in the Senate.
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A Pennsylvania-based lobbyist has been charged with destroying evidence related to an FBI investigation into former Congressman Curt Weldon.
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A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $15 million award to three officers who accused the Los Angeles Police Department of wrongly arresting them and making them...
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A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $15 million award to three officers who accused the Los Angeles Police Department of wrongly arresting them and making them...
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Police in the Adriatic city of Pescara say they have arrested the governor of Italy’s Abruzzo region in a health care corruption investigation.
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With the withdrawal of support from the government by Left parties, the political circus has begun,in a weeks time it’ll be clear as to which political party and...
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A Louisiana congressman awaiting trial on corruption charges is now linked to another criminal case, a revelation that could provide new fodder for his growing list of...
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Something huge happened in Brazil, the jailing of banker Daniel Dantas, along with other 17 people, among them a former mayor of Sao Paulo (Celso Pitta) and businessman...
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Kenya is one country which faced whole lot of troubles before putting together a cobbled up coalition government in parliament. The elections were controversial with...
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The nature and extent of Barack Obama’s personal corruption becomes ever clearer as the murky details of his recent purchase of a multi-million-dollar mansion...
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it is related to the investment of foreign aids in India and various problems related to it. the matter is also related to the corruption that prevails in the process.
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Anti Corruption Squad is an organisation whose sole aim is to fight against corruption from the grass-root level. There is corruption in every field. You will find...
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An attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife were arrested on suspicion of accepting thousands of dollars from both legal and illegal...
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Corruption in Thailand hit a new low. Corruption is a plague in Thailand and is spreading instead of being cleared up. Corruption is common knowledge for tourists or...
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Corruption has made water more expensive in some developing countries than in cities like New York, London or Rome, Berlin-based non-governmental organisation...
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We are rich!
Wait, does that make us unholy?
Corruption has entwined the government with sticky, malodorous tentacles. Prime Minister himself is under serious police...
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Last week the Auditor general in the Ugandan government released the audit for the past financial year 2007/2008 before parliament. Its so full of huge sums of money...
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In a Wednesday, May 25, 2005 file photo, Sen. John Ford, D-Memphis attends a committee meeting, in Nashville, Tenn. David Bowling, spokesman for the federal prosecutors, says former state Sen. John Ford was found guilty by a federal jury Friday, July 18,...
