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• Is Monsanto the answer or the problem?

  
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  ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, had only months to live when he received a visit from an old friend, Rob Fraley, chief of technology for Monsanto Co.
  8 hours ago

• Police find suicide note after Enkes death

  
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  HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Police have found a suicide note written by German national goalkeeper Robert Enke, who died on Tuesday after being hit by an express train near Hanover.
  8 hours ago

• Bank "open-minded" about more stimulus

  
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  LONDON (Reuters) - Inflation will be below the 2 percent target in two years, the Bank of England forecast on Wednesday, and Governor Mervyn King said the central bank was open-minded about pumping more new money into the economy.
  8 hours ago

• Abbas again demands settlement halt before talks

  
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  RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated his call on Wednesday for a complete halt to Israeli settlement building in order to resume peace talks.
  8 hours ago

• Sniper who terrorized Washington area is executed

  
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  JARRATT, Virginia (Reuters) - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax attacks.
  9 hours ago

• Washington sniper executed by lethal injection

  
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  JARRATT, Virginia (Reuters) - John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding, and carrying out with his teenage accomplice, the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C. region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax attacks.
  9 hours ago

• Claimant count rises much less than expected

  
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  LONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons claiming jobless benefit in October rose by its smallest amount in 18 months, while the number of people in work rose for the first time in over a year, official data showed on Wednesday.
  9 hours ago

• APEC ministers warn economic crisis is not over

  
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  SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific ministers warned on Wednesday that the global economic crisis was far from over and a current upturn was a respite rather than recovery.
  9 hours ago

• Afghanistan war "not keeping UK safe"

  
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  LONDON (Reuters) - The majority of Britons doubt whether the war in Afghanistan is keeping Britain safe from attack while nearly half said it was increasing the threat, according to a poll on Wednesday.
  9 hours ago

• Clinton says Korea naval fight wont deter U.S. envoy visit

  
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  SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A naval skirmish between the two Koreas will not derail the Obama administrations plans to send its first envoy to Pyongyang to revive dormant nuclear talks, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
  11 hours ago

• Body of missing U.S. soldier found in Afghan river

  
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  KABUL (Reuters) - The body of one of two U.S. soldiers, missing since last week, has been found by a military diving team in a river in western Afghanistan, NATO-led forces and the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
  11 hours ago

• Obama weighs four options in Afghanistan: White House

  
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  FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obamas deliberations over war strategy in Afghanistan have narrowed to four options but a decision is still weeks away, the White House said on Tuesday.
  12 hours ago

• Retailers plan promotional Christmas

  
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  LONDON (Reuters) - Retailers are preparing themselves for another promotion-led Christmas trading period, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
  12 hours ago

• For cashmere capitalist, dignity is key

  
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  SOLOMEO, Italy (Reuters) - Motivated at age 15 by the tears in his fathers eyes when the former farmer was forced to accept a factory job, Brunello Cucinelli is anything but an orthodox capitalist.
  12 hours ago

• EU president to be chosen on Nov 19

  
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  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The European Union will hold a special summit on November 19 to choose a president and foreign policy chief, the Swedish presidency said on Wednesday.
  12 hours ago

• Senators debate requiring sick leave for flu

  
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  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Desiree Rosados daughter got the flu last month, she took a week off without pay; just an hour after finally returning to work Rosado had to leave again to take her feverish son home.
  17 hours ago

• Fort Hood suspect contacted Islamist: sources

  
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  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies learned an Army psychiatrist contacted an Islamist sympathetic to al Qaeda and they relayed the information to authorities before the man allegedly went on a shooting spree that killed 13 people in Texas last week, U.S. officials said on Monday.
  18 hours ago

• Blackwater approved payments in Iraq shooting: report

  
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  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Blackwater executives authorized about $1 million in payments to Iraqi officials to buy support and silence criticism of the private security firm after a deadly shooting in Baghdad in 2007, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
  18 hours ago

• Jury acquits ex-Bear Stearns hedge fund managers

  
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  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were found not guilty of fraud, a decision that could make government prosecutors less likely to bring criminal charges against Wall Street executives for their role in the financial crisis.
  19 hours ago

• Obama: Gunman in Fort Hood rampage to pay for crimes

  
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  FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to make sure the gunman who killed 13 people in a rampage at a U.S. Army base in Texas pays for his crimes.
  20 hours ago

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