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/ 6 February 2009
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid halted debate on a -billion rescue Bill late on Thursday, but said lawmakers would resume work Friday.
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/ 14 October 2008
The United States pledged on Tuesday to pump -billion into its banks, following similar action in Europe, though a threat of recession remained.
G8 leaders sat down to lunch at a hotel with African heads of state on Monday as activists accused the rich nations’ club of backpedalling on pledges.
United States President George Bush urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday not to set a timetable for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
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/ 13 January 2008
Republican rivals Mitt Romney and John McCain clashed on Saturday over how to revive the depressed economy of Michigan, as the most open United States presidential race in decades approached its next big test. Romney needs to win the Republican primary here on Tuesday after losing Iowa to former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and New Hampshire to McCain.
In a bold bid to turn back a rising financial storm, the United States Federal Reserve on Friday cut a key bank lending rate and signalled a willingness to take more dramatic action to cushion the economy from tightening credit. The US central bank tried to calm financial markets by lowering the discount rate that governs Fed loans to banks.
Retired United States Navy medic Charlie Anderson twice thought about committing suicide: once when he feared he would be sent back to Iraq in 2004 and again last year when a friend and fellow veteran killed himself. ”I can’t say that I can’t go because we don’t do that; I also can’t go because I’m putting people in danger if I do,” he said of his first brush with suicidal thoughts.
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/ 7 February 2007
The United States Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than -billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the US gave control back to Iraqis. The money came from Iraqi oil exports, surplus dollars from the United Nations-run oil-for-food programme and frozen assets belonging to the ousted Saddam Hussein regime.
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/ 30 December 2006
United States President George Bush said on Friday the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was an important milestone on the country’s path to democracy. ”Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain, and defend itself,” Bush said in a statement.