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President Barack Obama addresses the National Urban League 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010.
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 The New York Times 
Obama Takes On Critics of Education Plan
| WASHINGTON — Saying that reforming education is perhaps “the economic issue of our time,” President Obama went before a major civil rights organization on Thursday to defend his ma... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Iraqis inspect the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A bomb planted near a state-run bank killed and injured several people in the eastern Shiite slum of Sadr City police said.
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 The New York Times 
Iraqi Insurgents Plant Qaeda Flag in Baghdad
| BAGHDAD — In a brazen late-afternoon attack in the heart of this city’s most prominent Sunni neighborhood, gunmen attacked two police checkpoints on Thursday before a series of roadside ... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Toyota car - Driver - Motorist  The New York Times 
Toyota Recalls 412, 000 Cars in US, Mostly Avalons
| Filed at 7:31 a.m. ET | TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota is recalling 412,000 passenger cars, mostly the Avalon model, in the U.S. for steering problems in which three accidents have been reported, the automake... (photo: WN / Aldrin Leyba)
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Speaker Lok Sabha Meira Kumar Taking Gaurd of hounor in Jammu and kashmir Legislative Assembly in srinagar on 20 June 2010,Meira Kumar ingurate 75th All india presiding officers confrence in srinagar  The Times Of India 
Speaker says no to adjournment motion
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Wednesday rejected Oppositions notices for adjournment motion over price-rise on the grounds that the government had not failed to discharge its constitutio... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
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INDIA-UNION-FINANCE-MINISTER-PRANAB-MUKHERJEE The Hindu
Pranab opposes adjournment motion
| Special Correspondent | "A particular motion can't be taken up if rules do not permit it even if a majority wants it" | Sharad Yadav: adjournment motion needed to wake ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks during an interview in New York, Tuesday Jan. 27, 2009. Blagojevich said he would respect "the law and the Constitution and the rules" if legislators vote him out of of The New York Times
Jury Deliberation Begins in Blagojevich Trial
| CHICAGO — Jurors on Wednesday began deliberating the fate of Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois who was impeached and ousted from office and now ... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
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Budget Director Peter Orszag speaks to reporters about the new tax or entitlement policies for the pay-as-you-go plan, Tuesday, May 12, 2009, during the daily press briefing in the White House Pressroom at the White House in Washington The New York Times
Budget Chief Tried to Tilt Power to Executive Branch
| WASHINGTON — There probably won’t be a lot of gift baskets or teary farewells from House Democrats when Peter Orszag officially steps down as White House bu... (photo: AP / Ron Edmonds)
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Kaing Guek Eav, foreground right, alias Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief, center, sits inside the court room in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2007. The New York Times
Cambodia's Troubled Tribunal
| Cambodia’s war crimes court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC, deserves credit for convicting Kaing Guek Eav, better known as “... (photo: AP / Heng Sinith)
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Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, pauses during the Bank's quarterly inflation report news conference in London,Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. King said policy makers are prepared to cut interest rates again to prevent a recession pushing inflation below its Herald Tribune
Bank of England chief says stimulus still needed
| LONDON - The governor of the Bank of England said Wednesday that the need to stimulate the economy still takes precedence over concerns about high inflation at a time w... (photo: AP / Chris Ratcliffe, poo)
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The Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee- India- Politics The Times Of India
Rising prices not government failure: Pranab Mukherjee
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday welcomed a debate on the rising prices which, he said, was not a government failure and could be discussed but not ... (photo: PIB of India)
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Bahujan Samaj Party or BSP president Mayawati, gestures during a press conference, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 15, 2009. The Times Of India
Mayawati wants special debate on inflation
LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Mayawati has said that BSP favoured suspension of all proceedings of Parliament to have a special debate on inflation. Ms Mayawati claimed that... (photo: AP / Manish Swarup)
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 Wind turbine-wind energy (sl1) The Daily Mail
Has any minister in history seemed more hopelessly unfit to do his job?
| Energy minister Chris Huhne has said Britain must build thousands more wind turbines to cope with energy demands | The penny is fast dropping that by far the most disas... (photo: Public domain photo)
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