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| Dems look to health vote without abortion foes
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|  AP - House Democratic leaders Thursday abandoned a long struggle to strike a compromise on abortion in their ranks, gambling that they can secure the support for President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation with showdown votes looming as early as next week.
| | Obama says he's committed to immigration overhaul
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|  AP - President Barack Obama on Thursday assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing a system he has said is broken. What remains unclear is whether Congress will send him a bill this year.
| | Deal could pay $657M to sickened WTC responders
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|  AP - After years of fighting in court, lawyers representing the city, construction companies and more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers have agreed to a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to responders sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
| | Yemen holds NJ man after al-Qaida sweep, shootout
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|  AP - He was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the high school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an al-Qaida member and accused of killing a guard in an attempt to break out of a hospital.
| | Fed. appeals court upholds 'under God' in pledge
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|  AP - A federal appeals court upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
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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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