As Japan’s opposition leader, Yukio Hatoyama was a strong critic of what he called Tokyo’s subservient position to Washington. But with his party now expected to take power, he is not likely to do anything to derail what has been Japan’s most successful…

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Hatoyama not likely to change US-Japan alliance

Lower-than-expected tax revenues are causing some states to leave welfare programs, day-care centers, preschools and other programs unfunded as lawmakers decide how to balance their annual spending plans. Connecticut and Pennsylvania are the only two states…

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Conn. and Pa. state budgets still in limbo

LONDON (Reuters) – Administrators of the London arm of Lehman Brothers said the claims it is handling against the collapsed Wall Street bank could total as much as $100 billion.

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Lehman claims could reach $100 billion: PwC

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A member of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party has pushed for a delay of the decision about the fate of General Motors’ European unit Opel until after Germany’s federal elections, a newspaper said.

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The cleanup is scheduled to start in a Rhode Island neighborhood so polluted with arsenic, cyanide, lead and other contaminants that its soil turned blue. Lawyers for about 150 plaintiffs said work to clean the contaminated soil in Tiverton should begin…

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The last week of summer could prove to be anything but relaxing for stock investors worried about the economy, with the crucial August jobs report on the agenda.

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After 54 years of almost unbroken rule Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party government has been expelled from office. At 10:21 pm local time, national broadcaster NHK announced that the opposition Democratic Party of Japan had won a decisive 241 Lower House seats. When votes for all 480 seats are …

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Historic victory for DPJ in Japan’s election

A contestant on a Pakistani reality TV show drowned while performing a challenge for the program, a spokeswoman for the show’s sponsor said Sunday. Pakistani contestant Saad Khan, 32, was swimming across a lake while wearing a 15-pound (7-kilogram) backpack…

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Al-Qaida claimed responsibility Sunday for a suicide attack that injured a member of the Saudi royal family and said the prince sent the plane that flew the bomber in from the Yemeni border because he was a wanted militant who supposedly intended to…

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Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso conceded defeat in elections Sunday as media exit polls indicated the opposition had won by a landslide, sending the conservatives out of power after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire…

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Ruling party concedes defeat in Japan election

A leading Democratic senator says backers of a public option in President Barack Obama’s attempt to overhaul health care may need to compromise on the issue but adds that such a point hasn’t been reached yet. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts suggested that…

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The British government allowed the Lockerbie bomber to be covered by a prisoner transfer agreement with Libya because that was in the “overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” as a major oil deal was being negotiated, a newspaper reported Sunday. The…

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Japan’s ruling conservative party suffered a crushing defeat in elections Sunday as voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots in favor of a left-of-center opposition camp that has promised to rebuild the economy and breathe new life into the country after 54…

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Media: Opposition wins landslide in Japan election

At a secret government warehouse in Kearny, towers of boxes soar to the ceiling, filled with brand-new clothing fated for the shredder or incinerator: Fake Nike shoes, Lacoste shirts, True Religion jeans and Yankees baseball caps. These are the smuggled…

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Japan voted Sunday in parliamentary elections expected to end the ruling conservative party’s nearly 54 years of power and give a largely untested opposition group a chance to make good on their promises to revive the ailing economy and turn around record-…

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Opposition Democrats tipped to win Japan election