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Greece said Friday it will use military trucks, navy vessels and commandeered fuel tankers to restore gasoline supplies cut by a strike that has hurt the country’s industry and vital tourism trade at the height of vacation season.
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Authorities say the gas meter was tampered with after service had been cut off at the metal-coating business. A man was electrocuted after the blast caused a live wire to fall on his truck.
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Economic growth slowed in the second quarter as companies invested heavily in equipment from abroad and the pace of consumer spending eased, raising concerns about the recovery in the rest of 2010.
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Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, response officials and Russian news agencies reported Friday.
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Arab nations on Thursday backed the Palestinian president’s refusal to immediately restart direct talks with Israel despite heavy U.S. pressure.
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Stocks eased slightly on Friday, but for the second day in a row major indexes bounced off session lows, this time on a positive report on Midwest manufacturing activity.
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Mexican federal authorities arrested 62 police officers in the state of Baja California Thursday suspected of ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, the state’s attorney general said, according to the state-run Notimex news agency.
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What’s next now that the oil stopped flowing, and what will happen when BP’s crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico is finally, permanently sealed?
That was the subject of a meeting about long-term cleanup up efforts Thursday between the man overseeing the federal response to the oil spill and coastal parish officials.
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China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia are set to pay a joint visit to Lebanon.
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