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Netanyahu offers Palestinians talks on settlements
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he was prepared to discuss "right away" the future of Jewish settlements if Palestinians entered direct peace talks with Israel.
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Court refuses stay in deepwater drilling case
NEW ORLEANS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Obama administration's request to stay a lower court decision to lift a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling in the wake of the BP Plc oil spill.
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Earthquake shakes California, no damage reported
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the Southern California desert east of Los Angeles on Tuesday, rattling nerves across the region but causing no serious damage or injuries.
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Obama bypasses Senate to fill Medicare post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed health expert Donald Berwick on Wednesday to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs that provide care to seniors and the poor, bypassing the Senate to fill a key job over Republican objections.
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U.S. and Russia to swap spies after 10 plead guilty
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ten people pleaded guilty on Thursday to being agents for Russia while living undercover in the United States as part of a spy swap between the U.S. and Russian governments that revived Cold War-era intrigue.
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U.S. aims to detect cyber infrastructure attacks: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government is launching a program nicknamed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private U.S. companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition.
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Goldman and Morgan Stanley saw turbulent Q2
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley have generated billions of dollars of revenue from fixed income trading over the last year, but that profit engine may have sputtered in the second quarter as bond markets grew turbulent.
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Netanyahu bodyguards' guns go missing on U.S. visit
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Several pistols belonging to bodyguards of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took an unexplained cross-country U.S. detour this week before four of them went missing altogether, officials said on Wednesday.
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Heat wave stresses Mid-Atlantic power grid again
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. electric companies urged consumers to keep cutting back on energy use on Wednesday as a record-breaking heat wave kept a stifling grip on the Mid-Atlantic states, straining power plants and distribution lines and leaving some customers without power.
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United States charges men in NY and Britain bomb plots
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States charged five men on Wednesday with plotting to bomb New York City's subway system and attack an unidentified target in Britain under orders from al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.
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New snag for Senate financial regulations bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin on Wednesday put off naming a successor to the late Senator Robert Byrd, which could further complicate passage of financial reform legislation in the U.S. Senate .
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Bin Laden's cook pleads guilty at Guantanamo
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Sudanese prisoner accused of guarding Osama bin Laden and helping him escape U.S. forces in Afghanistan pleaded guilty at Guantanamo on Wednesday, giving the Obama administration its first conviction in the controversial war crimes court.
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Obama bypasses Senate to fill Medicare post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed health expert Donald Berwick on Wednesday to run the Medicare and Medicaid programs that provide care to seniors and the poor, bypassing the Senate to fill a key job over Republican objections.
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Israel prepared to take steps for peace talks: Netanyahu
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel is prepared to take additional steps to ease Palestinian movement in the West Bank in a bid to coax Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas into direct peace talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.
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Manuel Noriega sentenced to 7 years
PARIS (Reuters) - Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was sentenced to seven years' jail in France on Wednesday for laundering millions of euros into French bank accounts and properties in the 1980s.
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UK inquiry finds emails do not undermine climate science
LONDON (Reuters) - Emails stolen from one of the world's leading climate change research centers contained no evidence to undermine the case for manmade global warming, a report found on Wednesday.
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Iran says atom plant set for launch after final test
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's first nuclear power plant is set to be launched by late September now that an important final test has been carried out at the reactor, the head of the Islamic state's Atomic Energy Organization said on Wednesday.
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Obama urges level playing field with China on trade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called for a level playing field for U.S. companies in China on Wednesday and pledged to push ahead with free trade deals with three other nations.
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U.S.-Russia may seek spy swap to free agents
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia and the United States appeared to be considering a spy swap on Wednesday to send home a ring of suspected Russian agents whose arrest cast an unwelcome Cold War chill over warming diplomatic ties.
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Soldier charged over leaked video of attack
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had charged a soldier in connection with the leak of a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists.
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