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AP source: Al-Qaida operative killed by US missile
By News on Dec 11, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior al-Qaida operations planner was killed in an American missile strike this week in western Pakistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Friday....
Tough bargaining still ahead at UN climate talks
By News on Dec 11, 2009
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COPENHAGEN (AP) -- After a week of U.N. climate talks, some money is finally on the table and a draft agreement has been circulated. Now the really hard bargaining begins....US health care tab to keep growing under overhaul
By News on Dec 11, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep going up and proposed Medicare savings may harm the program....
UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts
By News on Dec 11, 2009
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COPENHAGEN (AP) -- Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them - or at least cut them in half - by 2050 under a draft agreement circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks....House kills mortgage relief in Wall Street bill
By News on Dec 11, 2009
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has rejected an effort to expand a Wall Street regulation bill with mortgage relief that would let debt-ridden homeowners reduce their payments in bankruptcy court. The vote was 241-188 to reject....