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Bosnia and Herzegovina faces its most acute political crisis since the 1995 signing of the Dayton-Paris accords that ended the war in the Balkans, the international representative for the country told the U.N. Security Council on Monday. Valentin Inzko told the 15-member council charged with international peace and security that a referendum scheduled for mid-June by Bosnia's Serbs is a "blatant

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Hertz is raising the stakes in its pursuit of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. in hopes of besting rival Avis' efforts to acquire the Oklahoma-based car rental agency. The two vehicle rental heavyweights have been in a virtual tug-of-war over Dollar Thrifty for a little more than a year, with both looking to snag the Tulsa, Okla., company because its clientele is largely the leisure traveler.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The wealth of information pulled from Osama bin Laden's compound has reinforced the belief that he played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior U.S. officials said Friday. And the data further demonstrates to the U.S. that top al-Qaida commanders and other key insurgents are scattered throughout Pakistan, not

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's new governor thought his toughest job was going to be making double-digit spending cuts and deciding which state services to eliminate. "Then on day 100 of our administration - exactly day 100 - we had this massive outbreak of tornadoes," Gov. Robert Bentley said. The deadly storms that pounded the South on April 27 were a quick initiation for Bentley into the

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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Assailants using rockets and guns attacked a group of people exercising at an open soccer field in southwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing six of them and wounding 13, police said. Senior police official Hamid Shakil said the attackers fled quickly toward the nearby mountains after the attack on the outskirts Quetta, which is the capital of southwestern Pakistan's

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Central Bank head Jean-Claude Trichet offered struggling Greece, Portugal and Ireland a little bit of relief Thursday by signaling that the bank would not raise interest rates as fast as the markets had been expecting. Though the bank left its key rate unchanged at 1.25 percent, as expected, at a meeting in Helsinki, Finland, the euro suffered one of its worst

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MADRID (AP) -- Spanish bank BBVA said Thursday its first-quarter profits dropped 7.3 percent as a poor business climate in its home market offset a marked improvement in Mexico. The profit figure for Spain's second-largest bank was euro1.15 billion ($1.71 billion), compared to euro1.24 billion in the first quarter of 2010. Despite the profit fall, the bank said the first quarter performance was

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's ruling party rammed the country's free trade agreement with the European Union through parliament amid an opposition boycott in a result that shifts focus to a still unratified deal with the United States. The approval, which paves the way for the tariff-slashing accord to take effect as early as July, came in a one-sided late night vote Wednesday that saw

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable TV company, on Tuesday said earnings exceeded estimates for the first quarter, helped by healthy results both in its cable operations and the newly acquired NBC Universal business. Comcast says it lost just 39,000 cable TV customers in the quarter, its lowest attrition in four years. Cable companies have been losing customers to

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Joseph Finkelstein had never seen a photograph of his grandfather. The family had no idea when he died or where he was buried. Finkelstein's father last saw him on April 28, 1945, when they were separated at Mathaussen Concentration Camp in Austria. For decades Finkelstein's father, who's now 85, had carried an enormous load of guilt because they got split up. It took years of

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer Sunday for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect. He also called on Europeans to welcome refugees from North Africa. "In heaven, all is peace and gladness. But, alas, all is not so on earth!" the pope lamented as he delivered the traditional "Urbi et

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads. After years of urging residents to buy fuel-efficient cars and giving them tax breaks to do it, Washington state lawmakers are considering a measure to charge them a $100 annual fee - what would be the nation's first electric car

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. said it is suing Apple Inc. for patent rights violations, only days after Apple sued Samsung for the same reason. Samsung is accusing Apple of violating its rights to 10 smartphone and computer patents. The company filed lawsuits Thursday in Seoul, Tokyo and Mannheim, Germany. The lawsuits come only days after Apple sued Samsung in

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LONDON (AP) -- Britain's government said Saturday it has begun the process of reviewing the ancient, discriminatory rules of royal succession, so that if Prince William and Kate Middleton's first child is a baby girl she would eventually become queen. The current rule that puts boys ahead of their sisters "would strike most people as a little old-fashioned," Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said.

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Health insurance plans may look like an added fixed cost that you may not really want. However, health insurance may be helpful for a list of argues. You can search through health insurance plans to get the greatest one for you, whether it is something that only covers the some and far-between doctor's visits you might want throughout the year, or disability coverage that takes into account any

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up an important privacy case for the digital age, whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements. The administration is appealing a lower court ruling that reversed a criminal conviction because the police did not obtain a warrant for the GPS

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The six-month day of remembrance] of the enactment of the health care overhaul, many of the law's provisions will be in effect. Most consumers, however, won't see any modifies till subsequently January 1, while their new health insurance plan year begins. Meanwhile, employees will be coming ready for fall's "open enrollment" period, once they choice their health coverage for the coming class.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The U.S. will likely send less food to Japan in the coming weeks as damage from Friday's earthquake and tsunami makes shipping to some areas difficult and demand drops while people focus on burying the dead and other emergency work, agriculture experts said. It's unclear what Japan will need from America's bread basket in the longer term. The island nation with the world's

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