The head of Mali’s parliament, who was forced into exile after last month’s coup, is due to return Saturday to this nation in crisis in the first step marking Mali’s return to constitutional rule, his chief of staff said.
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National Assembly head due back in Mali
Reuters – Striking Greek workers denounced a new wave austerity on Friday as a demand too far by the IMF and EU, but Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the nation it had to decide within days whether to take the pain and stay in the euro or not.
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Greeks strike against IMF/EU austerity before crucial
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AP – Determined never to forget but perhaps ready to move on, the nation gently handed Sept. 11 over to history Sunday and etched its memory on a new generation. A stark memorial took its place where twin towers once stood, and the names of the lost resounded from children too young to remember terror from a decade ago.
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Looking back and ahead, America remembers 9/11
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Reuters – Thousands gathered Sunday at the site where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed as the nation paused to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people — including 40 passengers and crew here.
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Solemn gathering marks Flight 93 crash in Pennsylvania
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Reuters – JPMorgan Chase & Co agreed to pay $153.6 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it defrauded investors who bought mortgage securities sold just before the nation’s housing market collapsed.
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JPMorgan to pay $153.6 million in SEC fraud case (Reuters)
AP – Sarah Palin will embark this weekend on a campaign-style bus tour along the East Coast, sending a jolt through the now-sleepy Republican presidential contest and thrusting a telegenic but divisive politician back into the nation’s spotlight.
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Palin to embark on East Coast bus tour (AP)
AP – A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting the stage for the nation’s first public vote on what has long been considered a private family matter.
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Circumcision ban to appear on San Francisco ballot (AP)
AP – Radiation leaking from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant has caused Tokyo’s tap water to exceed safety standards for infants to drink, officials said Wednesday, sending anxiety levels soaring over the nation’s food and water supply.
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Concern in Tokyo over radiation in tap water (AP)
AP – In a misstep for the new Republican leadership, the House has rejected legislation to extend for nine months three key surveillance tools that are part of the nation’s post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law.
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House rejects extensions of Patriot Act provisions (AP)
AP – The United States has no plans to halt aid to earthquake-ravaged Haiti in spite of a crisis over who will be the nation’s next leader but does insist that the president’s chosen successor be dropped from the race, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.
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Clinton meets with Haiti presidential candidates (AP)