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- U.S. jobless claims up, but four-week average hits eight-year low
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 08:35 AMWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, but the underlying trend pointed to a continuing strengthening of labor market conditions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Heavy shelling, clashes resume in Libya's Tripoli
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 07:43 AMTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Heavy shelling resumed on Thursday in southern Tripoli where rival militia brigades were battling for control of the capital's main airport in some of the worst clashes since the 2011 revolt which ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kurdish oil cargo unloaded at sea, destination a mystery
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 07:32 AMSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Part of a Kurdish oil cargo has been offloaded from a Greek-managed tanker into another tanker in the South China Sea, but mystery surrounds the identity of the buyer and where the two tankers are headed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Moscow fights back after sanctions; battle rages near Ukraine crash site
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 12:14 AMMOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia fought back on Wednesday over new U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fed nods to firmer prices yet still focused on labor weakness
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 09:32 PMWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday reaffirmed it was in no rush to raise interest rates, even as it upgraded its assessment of the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House Republicans vote to sue Obama over healthcare law
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 06:40 PMWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Temporary ceasefire in Tripoli, 75 bodies found in Benghazi
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 11:55 AMBENGHAZI/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rival Libyan militias fighting for control of Tripoli's airport agreed to a temporary ceasefire on Wednesday to allow firefighters to try to control a huge blaze at a fuel depot hit by a rocket.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Temporary ceasefire near Tripoli blaze, more diplomats flee Libya chaos
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 09:44 AMTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rival militias fighting for control of Tripoli airport agreed on Wednesday to a temporary ceasefire to allow firefighters to try to control a huge blaze at a fuel depot hit by a rocket.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Moscovici says confident will have important economic role in EU Commission
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 08:48 AMPARIS (Reuters) - France's candidate for the European Commission Pierre Moscovici is convinced he will have an important economic portfolio, he told Reuters on Wednesday, rebuffing German concerns that France lacked the budget credibility to take such a job.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russia bans Polish fruit and veg in apparent retaliation for sanctions
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 06:59 AMMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia announced a ban on most fruit and vegetable imports from Poland on Wednesday and said it may extend the restrictions to the rest of the European Union, its first apparent retaliation to new Western sanctions imposed over Ukraine a day earlier.
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- Stop-start Afghan vote audit gets green light, but troubles remain
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 08:51 AMKABUL (Reuters) - The mammoth task of auditing eight million votes cast in the second round of Afghanistan's presidential election will restart on Saturday, the electoral commission said on Thursday, but disputes still hang over the process.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Food supplies cut to rebel stronghold in east Ukraine
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 07:13 AMKIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Food supplies have been cut to the rebel stronghold of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine during a military offensive on the city by government forces, local officials said on Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Argentina braces for market reaction to second default in 12 years
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 01:58 AMBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina defaulted for the second time in 12 years after hopes for a midnight deal with holdout creditors were dashed, setting up stock and bond prices for declines on Thursday and raising chances a recession could worsen this year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gaza toll soars as Israel 'days' from completing tunnel hunt
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 11:35 PMGAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel pressed ahead with its Gaza offensive saying it was days from achieving its core goal of destroying all Islamist guerrilla cross-border attack tunnels, but a soaring Palestinian civilian toll has triggered international alarm.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Argentina fails to reach debt agreement, default looms
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 08:10 PMBUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentina failed to strike a deal to avert its second default in more than 12 years after talks with holdout creditors ended without a settlement on Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bank of America ordered to pay $1.27 billion for Countrywide fraud
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 01:59 PMNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Bank of America Corp to pay $1.27 billion of damages after a federal jury found the second-largest U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Detroit drops post-bankruptcy monitor from exit plan
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 11:34 AM(Reuters) - Detroit has dropped the idea of having a court-appointed monitor keep an eye on its finances when it exits bankruptcy after determining the move was not needed, a city spokesman said on Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Moscow fights back after sanctions; battle rages near Ukraine crash site
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 09:54 AMMOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russia fought back on Wednesday over new U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exclusive: China's Xi reached deal with former leaders to investigate ex-security chief: sources
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 07:17 AMBEIJING (Reuters) - Two influential former Chinese leaders gave their consent for President Xi Jinping to investigate ex-domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, sources told Reuters, a sign the corruption probe will not open a rift in the ruling Communist Party.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mortgage applications fall in latest week: MBA
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 07:05 AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - Applications for U.S.
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- 'Russian involvement' central to UK inquiry into ex-KGB agent's death
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 08:45 AMLONDON (Reuters) - Evidence which shows Russia was behind the 2006 murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London will mostly be given in secret, the chairman of a public inquiry into his death said on Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine says suspends attacks to let experts reach crash site, rebels deny
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 07:27 AMKIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Thursday it had suspended offensive operations in its military campaign in east Ukraine to help international experts reach the downed Malaysian airliner's crash site but separatists were continuing to attack its positions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China diners test McDonald's, Yum says food scare hurts KFC, Pizza Hut sales
Thursday - 07/31/2014 - 05:35 AM(Reuters) - A food safety scare in China is testing local consumers' loyalty to foreign fast-food brands, including McDonald's Corp and Yum Brands Inc, which owns the KFC and Pizza Hut chains.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Temporary ceasefire in Tripoli, 75 bodies found in Benghazi
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 10:56 PMBENGHAZI/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Rival Libyan militias fighting for control of Tripoli's airport agreed to a temporary ceasefire on Wednesday to allow firefighters to try to control a huge blaze at a fuel depot hit by a rocket.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exclusive: Cuomo intervened in BNP deal to get $1 billion more for NY state fund
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 09:34 PM(Reuters) - Only days before U.S. authorities reached a landmark $8.97 billion settlement with BNP Paribas over the bank’s dealings with countries subject to U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Germany's ZF in advanced talks to buy TRW for near $12 billion: sources
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 12:08 PMNEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's ZF Friedrichshafen AG is in advanced talks to acquire U.S.-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp for nearly $12 billion, in a deal that would create an automotive supply powerhouse, people familiar with the matter said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Internet privacy service Tor warns users it was attacked
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 11:14 AMBOSTON Reuters - Tor, the Internet privacy protecting service, said on Wednesday it discovered a compromise on its network that indicated somebody was trying to monitor the activity of its users.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Moscow says 'short-sighted' sanctions will aggravate Russia-U.S. ties
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 09:23 AMMOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia called new U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Private sector adds 218,000 jobs in July: ADP
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 08:28 AMNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two former senior Murdoch editors charged over UK phone-hacking
Wednesday - 07/30/2014 - 06:28 AMLONDON (Reuters) - Two more senior journalists from Rupert Murdoch's defunct British tabloid the News of the World have been charged with phone-hacking, prosecutors said on Wednesday, weeks after the paper's ex-editor was jailed for the crime.
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