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Panel reveals new details of 1940s experiment

World NewsAug 30, 2011

ATLANTA (AP) _ A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study. (MCT)The Guatemala experiments are already considered one of the darker episodes of medical re
Obama rounds out econ team ahead of jobs speech

World NewsAug 30, 2011

(AP)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tapped labor economist Alan Krueger for a top administration post Monday as the White House scrambles for solutions to repair an ailing economy ahead of the 2012 election.Obama announced Krueger's nomination to chair the White House Council of Econo
Greek banks to merge, form nation's biggest lender

World BusinessAug 29, 2011

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's second and third largest lenders, Eurobank and Alpha Bank, on Monday announced plans to merge in order to better withstand the country's acute financial crisis.The widely anticipated move would create Greece's biggest bank, and will see a (euro) 500 million ($720
Retailers target Dubai

World BusinessAug 29, 2011

Limited Brands Inc., operator of the Victoria’s Secret chain, and American Eagle Outfitters Inc. are among retailers seeking a foothold in Dubai as consumer confidence in the emirate reaches a seven-year high. Sales in Dubai are up about 10 percent this year, according to store companies such as Riv
Philippines, China talk trade despite tensions

World BusinessAug 29, 2011

MANILA (AFP) ― Philippine President Benigno Aquino travels to China this week on a mission to secure billions of dollars in trade deals, with both sides looking to rebuild goodwill amid a bruising territorial row.Aquino’s five-day visit starting Tuesday is held against the backdrop of increasingly s
GM cuts prices to stay atop in China

World BusinessAug 29, 2011

General Motors Co. is sacrificing profit margins to maintain market share in China, cutting prices of low-cost minivans by as much as 15 percent to offset slowing sales in the world’s largest vehicle market. Propping up minivan sales through sticker-price reductions is crucial for helping Detroit-ba
Indonesian Muslim youths keep faith amid reform

World NewsAug 29, 2011

JAKARTA (AFP) ― As a pious young Muslim in Indonesia, Didit Sukmana prays five times a day, recites the Koran daily and fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.That’s not all. The 23-year-old student and Jakarta resident refuses to shake hands with women, will not marry a non-Muslim and appro
Typhoon departs Taiwan, heads for China

World NewsAug 29, 2011

TAIPEI (AP) -- Typhoon Nanmadol headed to southeastern China on Monday after dumping more than half a meter of rain in southern Taiwan, where wide swaths of agricultural land were flooded and some 8,000 people evacuated.The storm skirted Taiwan’s southwestern quadrant, remaining over the island for
New Nepal P.M. elected

World NewsAug 29, 2011

KATMANDU (AP) ― Nepal’s parliament elected the deputy leader of the former Maoist rebels as the new prime minister on Sunday, halting the Himalayan nation’s latest political crisis.Baburam Bhattarai of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) received 340 votes in the 601-seat parliament with the backi
Flood worries, some relief in Irene’s wake

World NewsAug 29, 2011

21 lives claimed and $7 billion lost, but N.Y. largely unscathedNEW YORK (AP) ― Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, inflicting relatively little damage to New York but leaving a trail of treacherous flooding and millions without power along America’s E
Knife attack at Chinese daycare center wounds 8

World NewsAug 29, 2011

SHANGHAI (AP) _ A staff member slashed children with a knife at a daycare center for migrant workers in eastern China on Monday, wounding eight children, one seriously.The attack took place at noon at an informal daycare center in Shanghai's suburban Minhang district, home to many migrant workers.Th
Taiwan hospital transplants 5 HIV-infected organs

World NewsAug 29, 2011

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- One of Taiwan's best regarded hospitals transplanted organs from an HIV carrier into five patients, a hospital official said Monday, in what appears to be one of the most egregious examples of medical negligence in the island's modern history.(AP)The five are now be
Finance minister wins Japan party vote, to be P.M.

World NewsAug 29, 2011

Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks shortly after he was elected as the new leader of the Democratic Party of Japan at a voting by the party lawmakers in Tokyo Monday, Aug 29, 2011. (AP-Yonhap News)TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's ruling party has elected Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its new chief, me
Boy dies after parents refuse to let him drink water for 5 days

World NewsAug 29, 2011

A couple in the U.S. has been arrested for killing the husband’s son by refusing him water for five days, Daily Mail reported.Jonathan James was being punished for wetting his bed and taking guitar strings from his twin brother. Jonathan’s father and his stepmother, have been arrested and charged fo
Looters attack S. Korea embassy in Libya: official

World NewsAug 29, 2011

South Korea‘s embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli has been attacked by looters amid the chaos arising from battles to topple leader Moamer Kadhafi, a Seoul official said Monday.Some 10 armed attackers stormed the mission on Sunday afternoon and tried to steal furniture and electronics, said foreig