Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they’ll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
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‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse visible from China to Texas
CHICAGO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc lost $10 billion of its market value on Monday on concerns that a bribery investigation in Mexico could be very costly and hinder its plans to grow. In a sign that the problem was widening for the world’s largest retailer, lawmakers in the United States and Mexico called on authorities to investigate allegations in a New York Times article that Wal-Mart de Mexico had engaged in a campaign of bribery to build its business. Legal and retail experts said the allegations, if true, could violate the U.S. …
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Wal-Mart shaken by bribery probe, shares plunge
Fang Lizhi, one of China’s best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China’s 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76.
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Fang Lizhi, who inspired Chinese dissidents, dies
A Jackson County judge said Tuesday he hopes to rule on motions by the end of next week in a misdemeanor case involving the highest-ranking U.S. Roman Catholic official accused of shielding an abusive priest.
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Mo. judge hears motions in case against bishop
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday lashed out at the United States for failing to fully cooperate with an investigation into the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers by a U.S. staff sergeant and questioned whether only one soldier could have been involved. A series of blunders by the United States, including the killings in Kandahar province on Sunday and the inadvertent burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base last month, has further strained already tense relations between the countries. “This has been going on for too long. You have heard me before. …
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Afghanistan’s Karzai slams U.S. over massacre
Reuters – The United States said on Saturday that it would offer Bangladesh close to $1 billion in aid over the next five years.
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U.S. offers Bangladesh $1 billion in aid over next five years
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Reuters – Lori Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents, will visit the United States as early as this weekend for the first time since her 1995 arrest, officials and her family said on Friday.
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Reuters – The euro faces a decisive week as European Union leaders, urged on anxiously by the United States, seek agreement on the definitive rescue plan that has eluded them for two years.
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Euro zone enters a decisive week
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