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		<title>A Glimmer of Good News for Pier 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it time for Pier 1 Imports (http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/) shareholders to break out the candy-colored champagne glasses? Investors starved for any piece of good news on the unprofitable home-furnishings retailer&#8212;which has been beset by steady declines in same-store sales and shrinking margins&#8212;seized on an upgrade of the stock by Goldman Sachs Group (http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/) to bid the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BETONSPORTS PLEA ENDS CORP. PROSECUTION</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 25, 2007 &#8212; BetonSports has pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy and will face no further criminal prosecution as long as it cooperates with probes of former company officers, including founder Gary Kaplan, a government official said. 
Kaplan last week pleaded not guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges stemming from the British online gambling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woolmer died from natural causes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The case of the cricket coach, the hotel room and the broken hyoid bone finally ended yesterday with the prosaic admission by the Jamaican police that Bob Woolmer was not murdered.
All talk of match-fixing, poison, and killers waiting in the shadows was dismissed by Lucius Thomas, the Jamaican police commissioner, and Mark Shields, the British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks Fall as Apple Weighs on Tech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Major stock indexes finished lower for a second straight session Thursday, led down by the tech sector after disappointing guidance from Apple (http://www.businessweek.com/ticker/). Reports on consumer prices, housing starts, and Philadelphia-area manufacturing pointed toward a solid economy, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke&#8217;s Senate testimony raised concerns about fiscal policy, says http://outlook.standardandpoors.com. 
On Thursday, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged Bali bombing leader arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesian police have arrested the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the south-east Asian terror group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and a series of other attacks in recent years, a spokesman said today. 
Abu Dujana, Indonesia&#8217;s most-wanted Islamic militant, was detained along with seven other suspected terrorists in raids on the country&#8217;s main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve ad enough of boards littering Royal Mile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THEY have been labelled a health hazard, an obstruction and a blot on the city&#8217;s World Heritage Site. 
Clusters of advertising boards have become a familiar sight to tourists and locals outside shops and cafes in the Capital&#8217;s Old Town. 
But now community councillors are calling for a &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy on the boards, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry &#8216;will never stop wondering&#8217; about Diana&#8217;s death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clarence House attempted to ward off a potential bout of renewed speculation about the death of Princess Diana last night following comments by Prince Harry in an American television interview that he would &#8220;never stop wondering&#8221; about the crash that killed his mother nearly 10 years ago.
The remarks came in an interview with the prince [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo and New York stock exchanges complete negotiations on alliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO: Negotiations for an alliance between the Tokyo and New York stock exchanges have been completed, Japan&#8217;s main bourse said Wednesday. 
An announcement of the results of the talks was to be made at a joint news conference later Wednesday in New York, the Tokyo Stock Exchange said in a statement. 
The TSE&#8217;s president, Taizo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alleged Bali bombing leader arrested</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesian police have arrested the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the south-east Asian terror group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and a series of other attacks in recent years, a spokesman said today. 
Abu Dujana, Indonesia&#8217;s most-wanted Islamic militant, was detained along with seven other suspected terrorists in raids on the country&#8217;s main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Firms drag feet in Venezuela?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By CARMEN J. GENTILE
UPI Energy Correspondent
MIAMI, June 12 (UPI) &#8212; Some foreign oil companies operating in Venezuela appear to be dragging their feet to the negotiating table where Caracas waits to negotiate a majority stake in their operations, said Oil and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez this week in a nationally televised address. 
Ramirez singled out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPI Energy Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ANDREA R. MIHAILESCU
UPI Energy Correspondent
Tehran to build oil refineries in Asia 
Iran is holding talks to construct five refinery projects in Asian countries with a total capacity of 1.1 million barrels per day. 
Seyed Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, Iranian petroleum minister, said there is no timeline for when the projects are expected to be completed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last gasp effort to save the whaling ban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unlikely grouping of the British government, naturalist Sir David Attenborough and Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative Party treasurer, has emerged to try to stop Japan and its allies from overturning the international ban on whaling.
British ministers have signed up Croatia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Greece to join an anti-whaling coalition at the International Whaling Commission&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Hong Kong Won&#8217;t Dump the Dollar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is a speculative attack on the Hong Kong dollar looming? That&#8217;s one of the more interesting questions in global finance right now, given the recent disclosure by Hong Kong&#8217;s former financial secretary Antony Leung that back in 2002 the government seriously contemplated abolishing its currency peg to the U.S. dollar. On top of that, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rudy Giuliani faces tough challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are moments in the febrile atmosphere of US politics when you have to pinch yourself to remind yourself what date it is. The pack of at least 14 contestants for the 2008 presidential race are campaigning with the kind of fury associated with the closing stages of an election. Do they know there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://co-ops.biz/rudy-giuliani-faces-tough-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Single Basra base for British troops in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British troops in Iraq will be confined to a single base at Basra airport from next month when they hand over their last remaining base in the city to Iraqi forces.
The defence secretary, Des Browne, said yesterday Britain was &#8220;on course&#8221; to hand over to Iraqi control the extensive Basra Palace base next month when [...]]]></description>
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