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BlackBerry deal averts service shutdown
TORONTO (Reuters) - The BlackBerry wireless e-mail service avoided a shutdown in the United States when device maker Research In Motion Ltd. on Friday agreed to pay NTP Inc. $612.5 ...
US ports deal review to widen probes: NY Times
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deeper review promised by the Bush administration of a Dubai company's plan to take over some terminal operations at U.S. ports will include inspections at ...
Blair says God will judge Iraq war decision
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair said God and history would judge whether he was right to go to war in Iraq, according to the transcript of a television interview ...
Hamas rejects recognition of Israel despite pressure
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Islamist militant Hamas, which is forming a Palestinian government, will not recognize Israel despite pressure from Russia to do so during talks in Moscow, a ...
At least 9 killed in attack near Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least nine people were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in an area southeast of Baghdad torn by sectarian violence, police said.
Bush visits two hot spots in South Asia
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Getting U.S. President George W. Bush into not one but two battlegrounds in the war on terrorism -- Pakistan and Afghanistan -- stretched his security detail but ...
Ex-congressman Cunningham sentenced to 8 years
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who pleaded guilty last year to taking $2.4 million in bribes, was sentenced by a federal judge on Friday to ...
US releases partial list of Guantanamo detainees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon released under court order on Friday a partial listing of names and nationalities of the nearly 500 foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, ...
Sanctions unlikely first step on Iran: Rice
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday said the UN Security Council was unlikely to impose sanctions on Iran as a first step in dealing with the ...
Bush convinced of Pakistan commitment in terror war
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush said on Saturday he was convinced of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's commitment to the war on terrorism despite the ...
Milosevic seeks subpoena for Clinton to testify
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Lawyers representing Slobodan Milosevic have asked the U.N. war crimes tribunal to issue a subpoena to force former U.S. President Bill Clinton to testify at ...
Encourage sick leave in flu pandemic, firms urged
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Businesses need to plan on having 40 percent of their workforces out if a flu pandemic strikes and need to start rewarding employees for staying home when they ...
Iran: Russia link counters mistrust raised by UN report
TOKYO (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday a possible joint venture with Russia would ease world mistrust about its atomic aims highlighted in a U.N. watchdog report saying Tehran is ...
Prosecutor likens Guantanamo defendants to vampires
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE (Reuters) - Confronting the defendants at the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals with the evidence against them will be like dragging vampires into the ...
New Orleans revelry closes post-Katrina Mardi Gras
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of costumed revelers shouted for beads and danced in the streets on Tuesday as New Orleans bid the blues goodbye, at least for a day, to ...
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