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The two houses of Congress – the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Democratic-controlled Senate – have said they are working on separate deals to reopen the government and avoid debt default. The House Republicans said earlier they …
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Markets Live: ASX to open higher
Google beat Wall Street's revenue and profit expectations as its advertising business expanded, while losses deepened at its Motorola mobile phone business. Shares of Google rose six per cent to $ US941.25 in after-hours trading on Thursday. The world's …
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Global energy forum highlights plight of those in the dark
CHANGEMAKERS · The 4th World Congress of the Game Theory Society · BLIND SPOT … The fact that more than a billion people in the world live without electricity is a major obstacle to development that requires immediate and sustained action, energy …
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1 bn people without electricity 'need urgent action': Daegu meet
AFP – The fact that more than a billion people in the world live without electricity is a major obstacle to development that requires immediate and sustained action, energy experts and officials say. Access to clean, safe energy was the focus of the …
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Microsoft Preps for Windows Phone Phablets With Update
Up until 2011, Microsoft made its major mobile OS announcements at Mobile World Congress in February. Will that happen … he reiterated. For more, check out PCMag Live from Monday in the video below, which discusses Microsoft's Windows Phone news.
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Lawmakers react to debt, budget deal
In fact, while House Republicans were considering a proposal that would have only required the President and his political appointees to live under Obamacare like the rest of the American people, the President told House Democrats that he would veto …
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NSA collects millions of email address books globally
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top …
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