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• American companies overwhelmingly optimistic about China market despite economic challenges

  
  Market Digest — Authority: 133
  Finds 2009 AmCham Shanghai Report While impacted by the global downturn, companies report revenue growth and plans for increased investment in China In the face of the global economic downturn and ongoing market challenges, a majority of American companies continue to see revenue and profit growth and rank ...
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• Egypt says it will not abolish death penalty

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 508
  Egypt said on Thursday that it will not abolish the death penalty because it is a deterrent, even though human rights groups say that fair trials are not guaranteed. "Egypt will not abolish the death penalty. It is a deterrent especially in murder crimes," state minister for legal and parliamentary affairs Mufid ...
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• Uganda Law Would Execute Gays and Imprison Their Families

  
  JONATHAN TURLEY — Authority: 636
  Uganda is considering a new law that would impose the death penalty for some gays and sentence family members to up to seven years in jail if they fail to report gay relatives to authorities. The law would even jail landlords for accepting gays as tenants. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to gay ...
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• A New Sovereign Debt Problem: IMF Stops Payments To Ukraine

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 706
  The IMF has grown tired of increases in government spending in Ukraine. The agency had agreed to loan the nation $16.8 billion to offset is large national deficits. It is now withholding the latest $3.5 billion installment. The nation desperately needs the capital. According to The New York Times “The monetary fund ...
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• Dinara Safina withdraws from 2010 Brisbane International

  
  WTA Women's Tennis — Authority: 438
  Dinara Safina withdraws from 2010 Brisbane International Dinara Safina withdrew from the 2010 Brisbane International due to a back injury and is still uncertain if she will be able to play at the Australian Open. Safina wanted to return from injury at the Brisbane Internation tennis tournament and start tuning up ...
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• Was Air Tran Flight #297 a terrorist dry run?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Like Climategate, there is another story the national mainstream media has either missed or largely ignored, and that is the story of what really happened November 17th on Airtrans Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston. Much confusion remains about exactly what transpired that afternoon on a plane preparing for takeoff ...
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• NYT > World: Putin Seeks Crackdown as Toll in Club Fire Rises

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin demanded a crackdown on regulators who fail to enforce safety measures, as the death toll from a fire at a nightclub rose to 141 people.
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• NYT > World: India Faces Backlash Over a New State

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Opponents of the partition of Andhra Pradesh staged protests, even as advocates for the creation of other new states began agitating in different regions of the country.
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• NYT > World: Body of Former President of Cyprus Stolen From Grave

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Grave robbers unearthed the remains of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos who died in 2008, and stole his body by night from a graveyard, Cyprus police said.
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• Gates Expects New Sanctions on Iran

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 154
  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s remarks were the first from a senior U.S. official to say that tougher sanctions were likely.
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• NYT > World: Gates Expects New Sanctions on Iran

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s remarks were the first from a senior U.S. official to say that tougher sanctions were likely.
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• NYT > World: Shell Consortium Wins Major Iraq Oil Deal

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . A consortium led by European oil giant Shell has on the rights to develop Iraq’s giant Majnoon oil field, an almost 13 billion barrel behemoth that is the largest on offer in the country’s second international oil ...
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• NYT > World: Island Nations Seek Lower Temperature Goal

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Island states facing the prospect of centuries of rising seas offered a new draft text reducing by 0.5 degrees Celsius the proposed ceiling for global temperatures.
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• NYT > World: Reporter’s Notebook: Global and Local Concerns Meet in ‘Hopenhagen’

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . From a truck-size piece of globe art adorned with mirrors, to a 50-foot canvas sphere projected each night at City Hall Square, every block of Copenhagen seems embroidered with a green global consciousness.
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• Pay Czar Poised for Next Wave of Rulings

  
  DealBook — Authority: 767
  The Obama administrations pay czar plans to announce on Friday his next wave of rulings, as bailout recipients struggle to get out from under his thumb.
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• Safina backs out of Brisbane International

  
  Tennishead — Authority: 147
  Dinara Safina has withdrawn from January’s Brisbane International with a back injury, sparking rumours she will be unfit to feature in the first Slam of 2010
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• S.E.C. Said to Eye Insider Trading in Healthcare Deals

  
  DealBook — Authority: 767
  A new U.S. securities regulatory investigation into potential insider trading began in mid-November with the issuance of subpoenas to a number of hedge funds that may have gotten an advance word on corporate takeovers, according to press reports.
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• Safina’s sore back forces her to withdraw from Brisbane.

  
  TENNIS in DEPTH. — Authority: 144
  Dinara Safina withdrew Friday from next month’s Brisbane International because of a bad back, leaving her status for the Australian Open in doubt.Safina, the former top-ranked player in the world, had hoped to return from injury at the Brisbane event and start tuning up for the first major of 2010. But tournament ...
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• Capello dreaming of England v Italy final

  
  The Independent - Tennis RSS Feed — Authority: 686
  Fabio Capello is dreaming of an England v Italy final in next years World Cup. Related Stories England stall over World Cup base
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• Obituary: Francis Blanchard, former ILO head, dies

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 591
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Francis Blanchard, a French citizen who was director-general of the ILO (International Labour Office) from 1974 to 1989, died Wednesday 9 December 2009, at the age of 93. He joined the ILO in 1951, where his first assignment was as deputy chief of the manpower division. He was ...
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