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Hacker pleads guilty to computer crimes
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. computer hacker Albert
Gonzalez pleaded guilty Friday to charges ranging from aggravated
identity theft to wire fraud, federal officials said.
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Belgium unhappy with Opel sale
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BRUSSELS, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Belgium is pressing the European
Union to investigate the sale of Opel to a Canadian and Russian
venture on concerns that Germany sought unfair advantages.
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Morgan Stanley chooses new CEO
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- New York bank Morgan Stanley
said James Gorman, co-president of the bank's global wealth
management, will take over as chief executive officer in January.
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Crude oil prices swing higher
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices rose Friday,
climbing toward $73 per barrel a day after OPEC oil ministers in
Vienna elected to keep production quotas unchanged.
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Guatemalan 'dry corridor' faces starvation
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GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- The global recession has
deprived Guatemala of the means to overcome the annual drought, U.N.
World Food Program officials said Thursday.
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Flooding hits Burkina Faso
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Almost 90,000
people have been driven from their homes by flooding in Burkina
Faso, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Report: Oil companies prop up Myanmar
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YANGON, Myanmar, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Two giant oil companies
have helped prop up the military junta in Myanmar with billions of
dollars in payments for a gas pipeline, a rights group charges.
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Bank exec said using surrendered property
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Wells Fargo says it will look
into reports that a bank executive has been using a California home
surrendered to the bank by victims of swindler Bernard Madoff.
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Obama to deliver 'major' financial address
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama
intends to give "a major speech on the financial crisis" in New
York's financial section Monday, the White House said Thursday.
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Monsanto Cuts Deeper, Sheds 900 More Jobs
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Monsanto Co. is eliminating 900 more jobs --
doubling the cuts announced earlier this summer--as the biotech giant
responds to a glut of cheap Chinese-made herbicide that's taking a
bite out of Roundup sales.
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Grain futures close mostly higher
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CHICAGO, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Grain futures closed mostly
higher on the Chicago Board of Trade Thursday, as the dollar lost
ground against the euro and the yen.
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Newly rich armor their cars in Brazil
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SAO PAULO, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Newly rich residents of Sao
Paulo increasingly armor their cars, making more than 3,000 of them
bulletproof in a year, an industry armoring trade group says.
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GM promotes brash money-back offer
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DETROIT, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. automaker General Motors Co.
said Thursday it would give dissatisfied customers a full refund on
cars up to 60 days after the purchase date.
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Bill would disable cars of drunken drivers
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SACRAMENTO, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- California's Assembly voted
56-0 to approve a pilot program requiring ignition-locking devices
in all vehicles of owners convicted of drunken driving.
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BOE keeps lending rate unchanged
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LONDON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The Bank of England said Thursday
it would maintain its bank-to-bank lending rate at 0.5 percent and
continue with a $291 billion program of asset purchases.
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