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US expects all ASEAN leaders at summit
MANILA - The United States expects the leaders of all ASEAN nations to attend a summit in Singapore next week, a US diplomat said Saturday, setting the stage for a possible meeting between Barack Obama and leaders of Myanmar's ruling junta.
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Summit power to determine Copenhagen outcome
as of 11/07/2009 9:35 AM
BARCELONA - Top-level political clout will now decide the outcome of the much-trumpeted Copenhagen conference on tackling the peril of climate change, now just a month away.
...full articleUS jobless rate hits 10.2%
as of 11/07/2009 2:03 AM
WASHINGTON – The US jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.
...full articleAre doctors what ails US healthcare?
as of 11/06/2009 9:03 PM
WHITE PLAINS, New York – Nowhere in the United States has more doctors at its beck and call than White Plains, one of the wealthiest cities in the nation.
...full articleInsider trading case as much Sopranos as Wall Street
as of 11/06/2009 9:01 PM
NEW YORK – Zvi Goffer could have passed for Tony Soprano when he warned confederates in his alleged insider-trading ring that "someone's going to jail."
...full articlePakistani forces enter Taliban headquarters
as of 11/06/2009 8:57 PM
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani soldiers entered the Taliban headquarters in South Waziristan on Friday, the military said, as gunmen wounded an army brigadier and his driver in a drive-by shooting in the capital.
...full articleUN calls for probes of alleged Gaza war crimes
as of 11/06/2009 7:24 AM![A camel is pulled by a Palestinian man during sunset in the Beach of Gaza City June 5, 2009. [REUTERS]](http://abs-cbnnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/imagecache_thumb/images/people/camel.jpg "A camel is pulled by a Palestinian man during sunset in the Beach of Gaza City June 5, 2009. [REUTERS]")
UNITED NATIONS - The UN General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved an Arab-sponsored resolution urging Israel and the Palestinians to probe war crimes allegedly committed in Gaza nearly a year ago.
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