Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party deputy, Harriet Harman, denied suggestions on Monday that she wants to take his job.
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The $4.5 million deficit represents about a 12.5 percent cut to city revenue. Other city funds also are hurting, Pimentel said. The library, for example, receives most of its funding from sales taxes. Foreclosures and housing vacancies have left the …
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The $4.5 million deficit represents about a 12.5 percent cut to city revenue. Other city funds also are hurting, Pimentel said. The library, for example, receives most of its funding from sales taxes. Foreclosures and housing vacancies have left the …
Seattle Times
Gov. Chris Gregoire says she expects to call a special legislative session soon - but only if lawmakers agree to limit the agenda.
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The Columbian
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The Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq wants American troops to withdraw from urban areas and only return with government approval, a defense ministry spokesman said Monday, casting doubt about whether the US can maintain troops in certain trouble spots even as they …
BBC News
Reuters UK
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New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNS REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Buoyed by an election victory that gave a strong popular mandate to her three-month-old caretaker government, Iceland's prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, told cheering supporters early Sunday that she would …
Xinhua
Times Online
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Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - France on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels for preventing civilians from fleeing the country's war zone and called for a meeting of the UN Security Council on the conflict.
Al Jazeera
guardian.co.uk
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San Francisco Chronicle, USA
The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule Tuesday that will require cement plants in the United States - including plants in Cupertino and Santa Cruz County - to reduce stack emissions of mercury, dust and other pollutants. …
San Leandro Times, United States
By : J. McGough : 4/17/09 After months of reading about the San Leandro Crossing Project, it seems to me that in the future it would make more sense for architects to design the low-cost housing units so that they could be interspersed with the …
Los Angeles Times
The president says $13 billion in federal money will be a down payment on the 'long-overdue' railway system. By Ben Meyerson and Richard Simon Reporting from Washington — President Obama touted his plan for developing high-speed railways Thursday, …
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San Francisco Chronicle
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