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Yen edges up from lows, Asian shares firmer
ReutersSINGAPORE (Reuters) - The yen pulled up from a 4-1/2 year low against the dollar on Monday after Japan's economics minister said a further steady drop in the yen could have negative effects on households, pushing the dollar to a low of 102.00. "People...Tags: Earnings, Stock Activities, Stamford, Missile Systems, Milan (Italy)
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Libya's deputy prime minister says deadly Benghazi explosion last week was an accident
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack. Awd el-Buraasi told reporters in Tripoli Sunday that military officials do...Tags: Government, Muammar Gaddafi, Explosions, Benghazi, Tripoli (Libya)
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For the record
Hotel workers: An article in the May 12 California section about a proposal to increase wages for hotel workers said that it would apply to unionized workers. Proponents want the higher $15-an-hour wage to go to both union and nonunion workers at larger...Tags: Career and Workplace, Explosions, Employees
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'Lone wolf' faces prison time for alleged bombs, drugs and gun
A West Los Angeles man faces up to nine years in prison after police say they found him with drugs, a gun and a pipe bomb in his car. Robert Cold Wilson was charged Thursday with seven criminal counts: possession of a destructive device on a public...Tags: Firearms, Punishment, Explosions, Los Angeles Police Department, Prisons
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COLUMN- Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
Reuters(Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Jack Shafer May 17 (Reuters) - Journalists gasp and growl whenever prosecutors issue lawful subpoenas ordering them to divulge their confidential sources or to turn over potential...Tags: FBI, Arabian Peninsula, Television Industry, Justice System, Eric Holder
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Attacks kill 16 people in Iraq, 8 policemen kidnapped on road to Syrian, Jordanian border
Associated PressBAGHDAD (AP) — A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country. The...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Shootings, Explosions, Al-Qaeda, Kidnapping
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Armed groups bomb Libyan military posts in Benghazi
ReutersBENGHAZI, May 18 (Reuters) - Armed groups attacked military posts in Libya's second city Benghazi with bombs and a rocket-propelled grenade, an army commander said on Saturday. Nearly two years after the uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year...Tags: Explosions, Military Equipment, Benghazi, Libya
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Feds: Drive-through Sanford bank robbers said 'All will die' in note
Robert Gordon Shaw and Matthew Anthony Cosimini had money problems. So, according to Shaw, the two devised a plan to rob a Regions bank in Sanford. They made a fake bomb , stole a pickup truck at Seminole Towne Center, and wrote a demand note. Those...
Tags: Theft, Explosions, Sanford, Politics, Lobbying
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Explosions, Weaponry, Space Programs, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NASA
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Police chief who launched anti-Taliban crackdown shot dead in western Afghanistan
Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday. Police Chief Abdul Ghani was leaving his driveway in his...Tags: Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, Explosions, Al-Qaeda, Taliban
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Two blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43
ReutersBAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence. Several...Tags: Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Explosions, Al-Qaeda, Religion and Belief
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Two blasts in Iraq leave at least 70 dead
BAGHDAD — Bombings in Iraq near a Sunni Muslim mosque, a busy shopping street and a funeral procession left at least 70 people dead Friday as the security situation continued to show signs of unraveling. The explosions brought the week’s...
Tags: United Nations, Wars and Interventions, Government, Bombings, Explosions
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