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Obama warns health insurers not to hike rates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned U.S. insurance firms on Tuesday not to use his healthcare overhaul as an opportunity to push through big rate increases and said the federal government would work with states to monitor them.
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U.S. indirectly funding Afghan warlords: House report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars in protection money to Afghan warlords, and potentially to the Taliban, to secure convoys carrying supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, congressional investigators said in a report.
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Nebraska town latest to fight illegal immigrants
KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - Voters in a small Nebraska town on Monday added to an anti-immigration sentiment sweeping parts of the United States, voting to ban the hiring or renting of property to illegal immigrants.
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White House summons McChrystal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has summoned the top U.S. general in Afghanistan to Washington to explain controversial remarks critical of the Obama administration, U.S. military and Obama administration officials said on Tuesday.
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White House budget chief Orszag to step down
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House Budget Director Peter Orszag plans to leave his job in a few weeks, making him the first senior member of President Barack Obama's economic team to step down, Democratic sources said on Monday.
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Court blocks Obama ban on deepwater drilling
NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge on Tuesday blocked the Obama administration's ban on deepwater drilling, complicating its efforts to improve the safety of offshore oil operations after the worst spill in U.S. history.
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House agrees to put consumer watchdog in Fed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve, which was criticized for failing to protect consumers in the run-up to the credit crisis, would be the home of a new financial consumer watchdog under an agreement announced on Monday.
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China makes good on flexibility vow, yuan falls
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China appeared to engineer a fall in the yuan on Tuesday to make clear that its newly flexible currency was not a one-way bet to appreciate, as markets reflected waning optimism over Beijing's new policy.
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Times Square bomber pleads guilty
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani-born American citizen defiantly pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United States.
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U.S. says cannot force Iraqis to agree government
LONDON (Reuters) - Iraqi politicians must agree among themselves on forming a new government and the United States cannot tell them what to do, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad said on Monday.
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House agrees to put consumer watchdog in Fed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve, which was criticized for failing to protect consumers in the run-up to the credit crisis, would be the home of a new financial consumer watchdog under an agreement announced on Monday.
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Wreck of mining execs' plane found in Congo
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Search teams on Monday found the wreckage of a plane carrying senior Australian mining executives in the jungle of Congo Republic, retrieving the remains of nine or 10 people at the crash site.
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Iraq minister resigns after clashes over electricity
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's electricity minister resigned Monday after days of protests over crippling power cuts that have stoked tensions following a March election which has yet to produce a new government.
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Judge to rule on U.S. drilling ban in Gulf
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A federal judge pledged to rule by Wednesday on whether to block implementation of a six-month government ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico imposed after the BP oil spill.
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U.N. agency calls for full lifting of Gaza blockade
CAIRO (Reuters) - Nothing short of the full lifting of Israel's blockade on Gaza would allow the territory to be rebuilt, the U.N. agency responsible for Palestinian refugees said on Monday, a day after Israel said it would ease its siege.
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Supreme Court upholds terrorism support law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a law that bars Americans from providing support to foreign terrorist groups, rejecting arguments that it violated constitutional rights of free speech and association.
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New clashes in Iraq over electricity cuts
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police fired water cannon Monday to disperse stone-throwing protesters in the southern city of Nassiriya, demonstrating over crippling power cuts that are stoking tensions following a March election.
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Civil society urges action on Zimbabwe diamonds
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Civil society groups urged diamond trade regulators Monday to suspend ties with Zimbabwe because of human rights abuses in its Marange diamond fields.
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Outgoing Czech PM plans resignation for Friday
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The outgoing Czech cabinet will resign Friday if the opening session of the new lower house of parliament ends Thursday as planned, Prime Minister Jan Fischer said Monday.
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Ethiopia confirms win for ruling party
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's election board confirmed Monday Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's landslide victory in a May 23 election disputed by opposition parties and criticized by the European Union and the United States.
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