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It was a potent mix: a Greek holiday isle, the scorching summer sun, a Russian oligarch with a huge yacht, and some of Britain’s top politicians.
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Citigroup Inc. shares continued to fall Tuesday, as the struggling bank disclosed it expects consumer loan losses to rise sharply through the first half of 2009.
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Pedalers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
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A judge dismissed charges against a Filipino doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. military’s health care program by submitting $2 million worth of bogus claims,...
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Treasury bonds advanced Tuesday after a government report showed that wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October, a drop that could indicate a rising threat of...
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Democratic leaders in Congress on Tuesday threw their weight behind a proposal to use $24 billion in government funds to help struggling borrowers, a move opposed by...
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Authorities say someone must have information about the 1987 disappearance of a little Florida girl whose skeletal remains were found 10 months later. They’re...
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The top U.S. military officer says the Taliban is doing well right now, and it’s no surprise that the militants would reject settlement talks with the Afghan...
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A wireless affiliate of Sprint Nextel Corp. has pulled its request that an Illinois judge block the planned spinoff of Sprint’s new broadband network.
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NAACP National Board Chairman Julian Bond says he will not seek re-election as chairman, a post he has held since 1998.
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Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...
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Oral Roberts University will lay off about 100 employees, days after it agreed to a near-$450,000 separation agreement with its former president who resigned amid a...
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Chile is scrambling to reach people who could be suffering from AIDS and spreading the disease.
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A Japanese court on Tuesday convicted a naval officer of leaking classified U.S.-developed missile technology data, sentencing him to a suspended prison term.
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Four former hospital administrators accused of embezzlement have entered not guilty pleas in a U.S. Virgin Islands court.
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A Greek minister resigned Thursday after being accused of involvement in a burgeoning scandal involving a state land swap with a powerful Orthodox monastery that has...
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Oral Roberts University reached a settlement Wednesday with two former professors who sued last year, claiming they were forced out after uncovering financial and...
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Three years ago, members of Brazil’s opposition parties were threatening to impeach President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva amid a widening corruption scandal.
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Colombian authorities say they have arrested the brother of the powerful interior minister on charges that include illegal enrichment.
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The Hong Kong government says two more local children have been diagnosed kidney stones after drinking tainted milk, bringing the total number of cases to four.
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The Hong Kong government says a 3-year-old local girl has been diagnosed with a kidney stone after drinking milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine.
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Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne will expand ethics oversight following reports revealing parties, sexual relationships and lavish gifts between government oil...
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A former manager in the District of Columbia tax office on Tuesday admitted to cutting dozens of fraudulent property tax refund checks in a scheme that drained more...
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A scandal involving sex, drugs and _ uh, offshore oil drilling.
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Brazil’s security chief told a congressional panel Tuesday that the country’s intelligence agency was not behind the alleged wiretapping of several top...
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Brazil’s president is suspending the head of the nation’s intelligence service in a scandal over wiretaps of top officials.
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In this photo released by Andina Agency, Romulo Leon Alegria, center, is escorted by police officers in Lima, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Alegria, the main implicated in an oil scandal , gave himself up to the police.
