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| Democrats, White House close in on health bill
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|  AP - A final agreement nearly in hand, President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders are about to embark on one last sales job that will determine the outcome of the president's signature health care overhaul.
| | Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy
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|  AP - On Christmas Day, a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit tried to blow up the plane with plastic explosives in his underwear. He failed, yet the very attempt shook the U.S. government, set federal agencies against each other and triggered months of political second-guessing.
| | Safety agency under spotlight in House hearing
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|  AP - Toyota's massive recalls are bringing new scrutiny to the government's auto safety agency, prompting Congress to look at how federal safety officials have lived up to their mission of protecting motorists.
| | NJ man accused of raping, beating 5 daughters
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| AP - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators. | | Mexico's Slim becomes 'world's richest' person
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|  AP - The naming of Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim as the world's richest person — the first from a developing nation — underlines the loosening of America and Europe's stranglehold on the top spots in the billionaires' club.
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Business News
| Romania To Back Moldova?s Efforts Toward EU Accession Regardless Govt Formula-FM | Romania maintains its policy to support Moldovan endeavors toward EU accession, regardless of the country?s government formula, foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu said Wednesday. | | Rompetrol CEO Sees Bucharest As Balkans? Future Financial Capital | Rompetrol president Dinu Patriciu on Wednesday said Bucharest could become the ?financial capital? of Balkan area. | | PM Calls For Caution In Investigations Regarding Nokia Plant In Romania | Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said on Wednesday the country?s Anticorruption Department must handle with more care subjects regarding important investors like Finnish company Nokia in order not to scare the investors away. | | Romanian Mobile Telephony Customers Top Country Population Number | Romania?s top three mobile telephony operators, Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, had together 22.236 million customers at the end of 2007, exceeding by over half a million the population in the country, of 21.565 million people. | | Romanian PM Says Min Liability Law Should Be Independent Technocrat Made | Romanian prime minister Calin Tariceanu said he wants a new law on minister liability that would make the ministers more responsible, but which does not leave the ministers ?at the hands of political abuse? by the presidency. | | Romania Former WBO World Champ Mihai Leu Runs For Hunedoara Mayoralty | Romania?s Conservative Party on Thursday will present the candidacy of member Mihai Leu, former WBO World Champion, for mayor position in Hunedoara municipality, western country. | | Romanian Govt Oks Electrica Muntenia Sud Sale To Italy?s Enel | The Romanian Government has approved the privatization of Romanian regional power distributor Electrica Muntenia Sud to Italy's utility Enel SpA (EN), Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Wednesday. | | Romanian Tanks For Tires Case Suspended Pending Constitutional Court Decision | The trial in which Romanian retired generals Eugen Badalan and Mihai Popescu, among others, are charged with causing over EUR1.2 million in losses to the Army Ground Forces General Staff was suspended when the Supreme Court approved the exception of unconstitutionality raised by the defendants. |
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