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WASHINGTON (AP) _ The nation’s unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike. The Labor Department’s report, released Friday, showed the increasing toll the housing, credit and financial crises are taking on the economy.
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Talks on the Caucuses region’s stability following the Georgian-Russian war have been downgraded to a “technical” session because of a dispute over...
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European Union nations were divided Monday over whether to resume talks on a political and economic pact with Russia that were frozen in protest at its war with...
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Germany and Italy want the European Union to resume talks on a political and economic pact with Russia that were frozen owing to Moscow’s war with Georgia.
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Voting rights groups asked a federal judge Friday to stop Georgia’s attempts to verify the identities and citizenship of new voter applicants, arguing they...
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IN ECONOMIC theory the winner’s curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to...
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Russia has only partially met its obligations in Georgia under an EU-negotiated ceasefire, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner declared Friday as he toured damaged...
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visited damaged Georgian villages near separatist South Ossetia on Friday in a show of European support for the pro-Western...
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As the EU’s Friday deadline approaches for Russia to withdraw from the buffer zones around Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, there...
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Russian troops pulled back from their positions outside Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia but held their ground in contested areas, setting the stage...
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The nation’s second-largest sugar refinery is being rebuilt in Georgia after a deadly dust explosion in February killed 14 workers.
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A Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman says Russian forces have pulled out from all but one disputed area outside the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that Russian peacekeeping forces will leave Georgia buffer zones around Abkhazia and South Ossetia by midnight Wednesday.
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AP, Karaleti
Russian forces pulled back from positions outside Georgia’s separatist South Ossetia region, bulldozing a camp at a key checkpoint and withdrawing as European...
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Russian forces appeared to begin the final stage of a pullback from positions outside Georgia’s separatist South Ossetia region Wednesday, bulldozing a camp at a...
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Russian forces appear to have begun the final stage of a pullback from positions inside Georgia near the breakaway South Ossetia region.
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Russian forces will begin withdrawing from a buffer zone in Georgia on Wednesday and be out within 24 hours.
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A top general says Russian forces will begin their withdrawal from a buffer zone in Georgia on Wednesday and be out within 24 hours.
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The U.N. mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and the separatist Abkhazia region should be extended for four months to explore whether to continue U.N....
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Muslim honor killings of daughters came to Georgia last month.A Pakistani immigrant who strangled his daughter because she wanted to end her arranged marriage did it...
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Reports out of Russia indicate that the recent military clash with Georgia may have represented something more like desperation than opportunism.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Republican presidential nominee John McCain, buoyed by a unifying GOP convention and the spark of running mate Sarah Palin, plunged into a...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ Greeted by thunderous applause, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin presented herself to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, and millions of...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ John McCain took the spotlight Wednesday in this excited convention city where he will claim the Republican presidential nomination, arriving...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ President Bush led a convention chorus of praise for John McCain Tuesday night, hailing him as a “ready to lead this nation” and a...
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) _ President Bush hailed John McCain Tuesday night as a man “ready to lead this nation,” a courageous candidate who risked his White...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ Residents were ordered to flee an only partially rebuilt New Orleans Sunday as another monster storm bore down on Louisiana nearly three years to the...
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DENVER (AP) _ Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the “broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of...
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DENVER (AP) _ Before an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the “broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W....
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DENVER (AP) _ Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has urged fellow Democrats to work for Barack Obama’s election as president, telling them “we are on the same team...
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DENVER (AP) _ Michelle Obama declared “I love this country” Monday as she sought to reassure the nation that she and her husband Barack share...
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DENVER (AP) _ John McCain’s campaign said Sunday that rival Barack Obama snubbed Hillary Rodham Clinton as a running mate because of her criticism of the...
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BEIJING (AP) _ Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore. Culminating a three-year mission to end...
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BEIJING (AP) _ Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore. Culminating a three-year mission to end...
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BEIJING (AP) _ Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore. Culminating a three-year mission to end...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ Barack Obama introduced Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware on Saturday as “a leader ready to step in and be president,” and the newly named...
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EMPORIA, Va (AP) _ Barack Obama said Thursday he’s chosen his running mate, but coyly kept all the details to himself as he campaigned with one leading contender...
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EMPORIA, Va (AP) _ Barack Obama said Thursday he’s chosen his running mate, but coyly kept all the details to himself as he campaigned with one leading contender...
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BAGHDAD (AP) _ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that U.S. and Iraqi officials agree that timetables should be set...
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BAGHDAD (AP) _ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Baghdad for discussions with Iraqi leaders. Rice on Thursday will press Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...
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