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- IMF Raises Alarms over Japan's Dangerous Fiscal Course
- VIDEO: Karadzic to begin his defence
- VIDEO: Does France support entrepreneurs?
- Karadzic to begin Srebrenica defence at Hague
- Argentina replaces navy chief over ship row
- Islamic finance struggles toward mainstream in Azerbaijan
- At least five arrested as thousands rally in Kuwait
- Key AMA Committee Endorses Paul Ryan-Like 'Defined Contribution' Reforms for Medicare
- What if IRS Doesn't Pursue Your Whistleblower Claim?
- High-Flying Healthcare Lessons From Felix Baumgartner
- Inside Yahoo! How Marissa Mayer Can Turn it All Around
- Malala: Global symbol but still a kid
- Psy: One-hit wonder or harbinger?
- Sudan forces burned, looted remote border village: activists
- Second Presidential Debate Details and Moderator Controversy
- At least five arrested as thousands rally in Kuwait
- RedBull's Stratos Jump Gives Brand a Boost
- Islamic finance struggles toward mainstream in Azerbaijan
- Restoration heartbreak in Syria
- Peace envoy seeks Iranian help for Syria ceasefire
| IMF Raises Alarms over Japan's Dangerous Fiscal Course Posted: 15 Oct 2012 07:07 PM PDT Talk about rude guests! At last week's annual meeting in Tokyo, the IMF publicly raised alarms over Japan's dangerous fiscal course.
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| VIDEO: Karadzic to begin his defence Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:48 PM PDT Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is to begin his defence at a war crimes court in The Hague.
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| VIDEO: Does France support entrepreneurs? Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:54 PM PDT Small business leaders in France are hailing their success in forcing the government to abandon a controversial new tax policy.
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| Karadzic to begin Srebrenica defence at Hague Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:50 PM PDT Bosnian Serb wartime leader hopes to convince judges of his innocence as he faces 10 charges of war crimes and genocide.
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| Argentina replaces navy chief over ship row Posted: 15 Oct 2012 11:05 PM PDT The snap decision by the president follows Ghana's seizure of a naval training ship and its 300 crew over debt dispute.
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| Islamic finance struggles toward mainstream in Azerbaijan Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:51 PM PDT BAKU/TBILISI (Reuters) - When a businessman in Muslim-majority Azerbaijan wanted a bank loan that complied with Islamic principles, until a few years ago he had to negotiate it under the table. The government's fear of political Islam forced banks to conduct "guerrilla Islamic finance" in which sharia-compliant deals were hidden under the appearance of conventional banking, says Fuad Aliyev, a scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Central Asia-Caucasus Institute in Washington DC. ...
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| At least five arrested as thousands rally in Kuwait Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:00 PM PDT
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| Key AMA Committee Endorses Paul Ryan-Like 'Defined Contribution' Reforms for Medicare Posted: 15 Oct 2012 06:28 PM PDT At the Vice-Presidential debate last week, Joe Biden claimed that the American Medical Association sided with him, and against Paul Ryan, on the merits of the Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare reform. "Who do you believe?" exclaimed Biden. "The AMA [and] me? A guy who has fought his whole life for this? Or somebody [like Paul Ryan]?" Well, it turns out that the AMA's key policy committee has come out in favor of premium support for Medicare, in a fashion that tracks closely with what Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are proposing.
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| What if IRS Doesn't Pursue Your Whistleblower Claim? Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:53 PM PDT The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Lately, a few disgruntled whistleblowers have been going to Tax Court to try to roust the IRS. But rousting the IRS is a tough sell. Take William Prentice Cooper III, who took on the IRS in Cooper v. Commissioner. An attorney, Cooper claimed [...]
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| High-Flying Healthcare Lessons From Felix Baumgartner Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:47 PM PDT In case you missed it, a rather stunning event occurred on Sunday. An Austrian man – Felix Baumgartner – stepped off the small ledge of a capsule that was hovering about 128,000 feet above the earth. He then fell – slightly more than 24 miles – and parachuted safely in a [...]
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| Inside Yahoo! How Marissa Mayer Can Turn it All Around Posted: 15 Oct 2012 03:35 PM PDT Collaborated with and written by Stan Slap I don't know Yahoo! personally; they're not one of my company's clients. But I know how cultures work and how to work them. The turnaround that Marissa Mayer is attempting will be decided by the reactions and actions of its [...]
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| Malala: Global symbol but still a kid Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:44 PM PDT Eleven-year-olds sometimes have trouble sleeping through the night, kept awake by monsters they can't see.
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| Psy: One-hit wonder or harbinger? Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:46 PM PDT If you are one of the few who haven't seen South Korean rapper Psy's performance of "Gangnam Style" on YouTube (which, until I wrote these words, included me), you're missing not only a piece of power pop, but -- some hope -- a harbinger of things to come for Asian music artists.
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| Sudan forces burned, looted remote border village: activists Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:07 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces burned and looted a village in the Nuba mountains of South Kordofan state in May and filmed the attack, a monitoring group said on Tuesday, providing satellite images, cell phone video and witness accounts to back its claims. The Satellite Sentinel Project, whose founders include Hollywood actor George Clooney and the Enough Project, said a joint unit of Sudanese police known as Abu Tira, the Sudan Armed Forces and the Popular Defense Forces militia attacked Gardud al Badry on May 18 and then bombarded it with artillery on July 29. ...
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| Second Presidential Debate Details and Moderator Controversy Posted: 15 Oct 2012 06:18 PM PDT Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (L) during the Presidential Debate at the University of Denver on October 3, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The second presidential debate of the 2012 cycle will [...]
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| At least five arrested as thousands rally in Kuwait Posted: 15 Oct 2012 10:00 PM PDT KUWAIT (Reuters) - At least five protesters were arrested and several injured in Kuwait as police tried to break up an opposition protest late on Monday, witnesses said.
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| RedBull's Stratos Jump Gives Brand a Boost Posted: 15 Oct 2012 05:07 PM PDT RedBull made two billionaires and some extreme marketing campaigns.
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| Islamic finance struggles toward mainstream in Azerbaijan Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:51 PM PDT BAKU/TBILISI (Reuters) - When a businessman in Muslim-majority Azerbaijan wanted a bank loan that complied with Islamic principles, until a few years ago he had to negotiate it under the table.
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| Restoration heartbreak in Syria Posted: 15 Oct 2012 09:36 PM PDT German restorers watch as war threatens years- worth of work restoring Aleppo's historic sites. Fred Pleitgen reports.
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| Peace envoy seeks Iranian help for Syria ceasefire Posted: 15 Oct 2012 07:44 PM PDT
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