(AP) -- They may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President...
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Police have arrested a block development officer (BDO) allegedly in a compromising position with a woman from his official quarter in Udhampur district's Ramnagar belt, 120 km from here, police said.Acting on information by locals, police raided official residence of BDO of Rural Development Department Abdul Aziz Qurashi. He was caught in compromising position with Bimla in Ramnagar area last evening,...
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a surprisingly quick compromise, European Union leaders have named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy andespecially to select their first full time president and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, new posts created by the Lisbon Treaty, which will come into force on 1Rompuy selected in a closed-door meeting would be the first permanent president of the world's largest economy and the...
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DAMASCUS: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stop seeking compromise with Israel but has offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions.Sounding conciliatory after raising the political ante against Abbas following his call for national elections last month, Meshaal said Hamas “stretches its hand” to Abbas’s Fatah faction to end divisions...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged member nations today to reach a compromise ahead of a climate change summit scheduled for December in Copenhagen and called on the United States to stay engaged."All agree that climate change is an existential threat to humankind," Ban wrote in an op-ed article published by The New York Times. "Yet agreement on what to do still eludes us." Ban said he was encouraged...
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size="2"> Islamabad: US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson has said that the US has no intention to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons or material, reports our Pakistan correspondent.
Responding to a media report that the United States has been negotiating "understandings" with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, she said...
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BJP leadership is understood to have offered a compromise formula under which Rural Development Minister Shobha Karandlaje may be removed in an attempt to buy peace with Karnataka dissidents who were still said to be gunning for Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.Party President Rajnath Singh ruled out change of leadership in the state saying it is not negotiable as top leaders conveyed to Tourism Minister...
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comes a point in every man's life when he realizes he is going to spend the rest of it alone unless he is willing to compromise. Most of these compromises are benign. A man should come to accept, for example, that striped shirts and plaid pants don't match, and that covering a wall with Star Trek posters gets you on. In my case, The Compromise was major: My girlfriend refused to become my wife unless...
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Hawk jets came within 50ft (15m) of a head-on collision over Carmarthenshire, an accident report has revealed.The jets, from RAF Valley on Anglesey, were on routine low-level training when the incident happened over Llanwrda, near Llandovery, in June.The pilots took an emergency manoeuvre to avoid each other and aircraft safety was compromised, said the report.The joint Civil Aviation Authority and...
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visitWASHINGTON -- Lawmakers are adding sweeping exemptions to financial-regulation legislation that would benefit small businesses, a move that is irking some consumer groups and liberal lawmakers who contend that could compromise the effectiveness of the overhaul.Bills currently under consideration in the House exclude thousands of community banks from oversight by the proposed Consumer Financial...
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