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Friday, April 15th, 2011
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2011 (AFP) – President Barack Obama’s Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday, calling it the cure to out-of-control government spending. In an almost perfect party-line vote, lawmakers voted 235-193 to approve the non-binding blueprint crafted by Republican Representative Paul Ryan and roundly denounced [...]
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
WASHINGTON, April 5, 2011 (AFP) – The war in Libya is costing the US Air Force $4 million a day but the cost likely will drop now that American fighter jets pulled out of the operation, the air force secretary said Tuesday. As of Tuesday morning, “we’re probably (at) about 75 million dollars for the cost [...]
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4, 2011 (AFP) – Larry Page’s first day as Google chief executive on Monday was marked with the resignation of the executive in charge of search, Android and other major products at the Internet powerhouse. Google confirmed that Jonathan Rosenberg, the company’s chief of product development, announced his resignation internally after being unable [...]
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2011 (AFP) – The US military on Monday withdrew its fighter jets from the international air campaign in Libya, officials said, after NATO asked Washington to keep up bombing raids for another 48 hours. The United States had planned to halt combat missions and Tomahawk cruise missile launches at the weekend but accepted [...]
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Friday, April 1st, 2011
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2011 (AFP) – US lawmakers urged President Barack Obama Thursday to press Palestinians to resume peace talks with Israel without preconditions and battle “incitement” to violence against the Jewish state. ”We respectfully request that you do everything possible to urge president (Mahmud) Abbas to root out terrorism, return to negotiations without preconditions, earnestly [...]
