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Ex-Treasury Secretary Geithner's new job: fellow at N.Y. think tank
WASHINGTON -- It didn't take long for former Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner to land a new job, and it's not on Wall Street -- though it's in the same area code. The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank based in New York, said...
Tags: Government, Economy, Business and Finance, White House, Jack Lew, Federal Reserve
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Iran's leader visits Cairo, easing long estrangement
CAIRO -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived to a red-carpet welcome and a kiss on the cheek by Egypt's new Islamist leader in a historic trip to strengthen relations between the two nations after decades of estrangement and suspicion. Iran...
Tags: Israel, Human Rights, Islam, Cairo (Egypt), Religious Conflicts
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Spain's ruling party leaders face corruption allegations
MADRID -- Corruption allegations swirling around Spain's ruling party threatened to ensnare the prime minister for the first time Thursday when a newspaper published photos and excerpts of secret accounting ledgers that purportedly reveal under-the-...
Tags: Government, Mariano Rajoy, King of Spain Juan Carlos I, Political Corruption, Polio
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Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and...
Tags: George Washington, Israel, Islam, Interreligious Dialogue, Cairo (Egypt)
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Greek lawmakers to vote on probe of former officials in tax scandal
ATHENS -- Greek lawmakers are to decide Thursday whether two former prime ministers and two ex-finance ministers should be investigated and potentially prosecuted on allegations of covering up suspected tax cheats in the nation's biggest tax-evasion...
Tags: George Papandreou, Government, Justice System, Government Ministers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Greece lawmakers call for probe of former minister
ATHENS – Greece’s ruling coalition on Monday called for a parliamentary probe into allegations that former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou altered a list of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts, deleting the names...
Tags: George Papandreou, European Union, Economy, Business and Finance, Parliament, Justice System
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Governor of Egypt's Central Bank resigns
CAIRO -- Egypt's Central Bank Gov. Farouk el-Okdah resigned Thursday amid tumultuous economic conditions marked by shrinking foreign reserves and the continuing decline of the Egyptian pound against the U.S. dollar. President Mohamed Morsi accepted El-...Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Egypt, Government, Executive Branch, Auction Service
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‘Face the Nation’ welcomes Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe fiscal cliff will take center screen on Sunday morning talk shows. The guest lineup: Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of President Barack Obama's deficit commission, visit CBS' “Face the Nation.” The program airs at 10:30 a.m. on... -
Protracted unrest, instability ahead for deeply divided Egyptians
As restive Egyptians face a vote on a controversial new constitution this weekend, many may find themselves torn between exhaustion and fury. Voter endorsement of the hastily drafted national blueprint that enshrines the rights of Islamists but...
Tags: Arab Spring, Mohamed Morsi, Egypt, Human Rights, Islam
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Obama 'Willing to Compromise a Little' on Fiscal Cliff
CNNWashington -- It's crunch time for avoiding the fiscal cliff as President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner and their aides hold private talks on issues that will impact every American. Three weeks remain to cut a deal before the automatic...Tags: Moody's Corporation, Government Health Care, Consumer Confidence, Politics, ABC (tv network)
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Women and power
Forbes' recent annual list of the 100 Most Powerful Women reminds us how far women have come — and how far society has yet to go. The list's existence in itself, worthy as it may be, is testament to continued inequity. There is no list of 100 Most...
Tags: Gisele Bundchen , Entertainment Events, United Nations, Human Rights, Hillary Clinton
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Eurozone pulls back from the brink of catastrophe -- again
World NowGlobal Focus: Europe's economic roller coaster slowed to a safe stop Thursday, after the latest white-knuckled plunge toward disaster, when European Central Bank President Mario Draghi vowed to control soaring interest rates that threaten to bankrupt...
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