Iran's Businesses Worry in Face of Uncertainty (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:40 PM PDT Time.com - Businesses have grown dependent on official energy subsidies and, with the government mum about how it plans to cut them, many industrialists foresee really bad times ahead  
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Two Chinese face trial in U.S. on microchip charges (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:51 PM PDT Reuters - Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Hungary and are awaiting extradition to the United States, where they face charges of seeking to buy microchips banned from export to China, state media said on Wednesday.  
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NATO soldier killed in Afghan bomb attack (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:59 PM PDT AFP - A NATO soldier was killed in a bomb attack in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance said.  
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High Anxiety in Iran: Awaiting Economic Reform (Time.com) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:40 PM PDT Time.com - Ahmadinejad is on the verge of implementing a much-needed adjustment to the economy. But most Iranians are scared to death of the consequences  
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Indian doctors, patients play down 'superbug' fears (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:22 PM PDT AFP - Carla looked out over Mumbai from the window of a luxury hotel, the line of stitches under her ears and yellowing bruises on her cheeks partially obscured by her dark, shoulder-length hair and glasses.  
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How US state deals with drink crime Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:23 PM PDT A stringent project designed to curb alcohol-related crime in the US state of South Dakota is to be used as a model for a project in the UK.  
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Indian woman hopes to conquer Sumo Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT A woman from Mumbai is looking to raise the profile of Sumo wrestling in India.  
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Night protest over Italian waste dump Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:13 PM PDT Thousands of people took part in an all-night march between Pompeii and Terzigno on Tuesday in protest at the government's plans to open a second waste dump in Terzigno.  
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BA chief attacks US over airport security checks (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:54 PM PDT AFP - The chairman of British Airways has strongly criticised some airport security checks and said Britain should not "kowtow" to US demands, in comments published in a newspaper Wednesday.  
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Singapore-Australia bourse tie up threatens Tokyo (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 10:04 PM PDT AFP - Japan's top exchange will seek its own alliances if a planned multi-billion dollar merger of the Singapore and Sydney stock exchanges goes ahead, the bourse's head said in a report Wednesday.  
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Buy A Computer With Help From Uncle Sam Before Year End Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:42 PM PDT Coverdell and 529 account holders can buy computers with tax-free earnings.  
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SKorea's economic growth slows sharply in 3Q (AP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:19 PM PDT AP - South Korea's economic growth slowed sharply in the third quarter on weaker exports and manufacturing as prospects for the global recovery turn cloudy.  
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China reaches out to tiny, resource-rich East Timor (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:18 PM PDT AFP - A jade elephant rears majestically in the corner as patrons tuck into their burgers and fries at one of only three US-style fast-food joints in East Timor, all of which are Chinese owned and operated.  
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Larry Ellison To Prove HP's New CEO Stole His Software Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:20 PM PDT Oracle chief says he'll provide evidence at a trial that starts Monday.  
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Inside a Haiti camp threatened by cholera Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:06 PM PDT The Haitian government tries to prevent a cholera outbreak in the north-west of the country moving to the capital Port-au-Prince.  
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Pakistan 'clears insurgent stronghold' Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:08 PM PDT Pakistan says it has cleared most militants from tribal areas in Orakzai.  
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Intel to open billion-dollar chip plant in Vietnam (AFP) Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:49 PM PDT AFP - The world's biggest chip maker, Intel, will on Friday open in Vietnam a billion-dollar assembly and test facility billed as the company's biggest, as the country vies to move up the technology ladder.  
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Pakistan 'clears insurgent stronghold' Posted: 26 Oct 2010 09:08 PM PDT Pakistan says it has cleared most militants from tribal areas in Orakzai.  
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U.S. Lost Links With 50 Nukes Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:49 PM PDT Communications with some 50 nuclear missiles were disrupted for 45 minutes on Saturday, making it more difficult to launch them and sending the military scrambling to determine what happened, defense officials said.  
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Gitmo Transfers to Europe Are Probed Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:38 PM PDT Republicans who have blocked the Obama administration from closing the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects are now questioning its moves to transfer some detainees to Europe.  
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