All Stories from June 1, 2012 (Change date)
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Italian jobless rate exceeds 10 percent as recession bitesJun 01, 2012 5:52 am - Italy’s joblessness rose more than economists forecast in April to the highest in 12 years amid a deepening slump in Europe’s fourth-biggest economy. The unemployment ra...
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Small biz lending shrinks as owners grow cautiousJun 01, 2012 5:51 am - NEW YORK — A study released Friday by PayNet, a research firm that tracks loans to small business, shows that lending fell 2 percent in April after a 3 percent drop in M...
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Google adds feature to help China searchersJun 01, 2012 5:51 am - BEIJING — Google has fired a new salvo in a censorship battle with Beijing by adding a feature that warns users in China who enter search keywords that might produce blo...
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Jobless rate now a leading political indicatorJun 01, 2012 5:51 am - WASHINGTON — Every four weeks between now and November, a single number issued from a spare, windowless room in the heart of the federal bureaucracy will set the battle ...
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Early results: Ireland votes to approve EU treatyJun 01, 2012 5:51 am - DUBLIN — Ireland’s voters have decided to ratify the European Union’s deficit-fighting treaty with “yes” votes reaching nearly 60 percent, according to election official...
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Record-setting NM fire expected to burn for weeksJun 01, 2012 5:48 am - RESERVE, N.M. — A smoky haze hangs over the rugged canyons and tree-covered expanses of southwestern New Mexico as the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history m...
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Japan making more plutonium despite huge stockpileJun 01, 2012 5:48 am - TOKYO — Last year’s tsunami crisis left Japan’s nuclear future in doubt and its reactors idled, rendering its huge stockpile of plutonium useless for now. So, the nuclea...
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Police laud ‘hero’ in Seattle shootingsJun 01, 2012 5:48 am - Associated Press SEATTLE — The man had been banned from the artsy cafe for acting out, but that didn’t stop him from walking in, taking a seat at the bar and trying to p...
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Ishihara says support for Tokyo’s Olympic bid will growJun 01, 2012 5:48 am - TOKYO — Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara says low support for the city’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics is an “idiosyncrasy” of Japanese people and that enthusiasm for th...
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Super handyman: Tips for wrangling those extension cordsJun 01, 2012 5:11 am - Cordless tools have a place in the workshop, home and yard, but there are lots of times when only a corded tool will do. That usually comes with the use of an extension ...