2012年3月21日星期三

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French riot police pressure gunman to surrender

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A RAID special intervention police officer arrives near the building where the suspected killer is hold-up in Toulouse Wednesday March 21, 2012 . After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the gunman was planning to kill another soldier imminently. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)Riot police set off explosions outside an apartment building early Thursday in an effort to force the surrender of a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" with an al-Qaida-linked terror spree that killed seven people.


3 blasts outside hideout of French terror suspect

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French Police officers and firefighters stand at night next to the apartment building where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is still barricaded, in Toulouse, Southern France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. A predawn police raid on a home in Toulouse erupted into a firefight Wednesday with a gunman who claims connections to al-Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)Three explosions were heard near an apartment building in southwest France where a suspected gunman is holed up, but an Interior Ministry spokesman would not confirm the blasts meant the start of an assault.


New Hampshire gay marriage repeal fails

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BOSTON (Reuters) - New Hampshire lawmakers easily defeated a bill on Wednesday that would have been the first step toward reversing the state's law that allows same-sex couples to marry. The attempt to repeal a law that made gay marriages legal in the state, failed by a vote of 116-211 in the Republican-controlled legislature, drawing applause from many lawmakers in the historic statehouse in Concord. Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, had promised to veto the bill if it reached his desk. ...

Prosecutor: French shooter proud of the 7 slayings

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A RAID special intervention police officer arrives near the building where the suspected killer is hold-up in Toulouse Wednesday March 21, 2012 . After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the gunman was planning to kill another soldier imminently. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)Riot police surrounded an apartment building into the night on Wednesday, laying siege to a gunman who boasted of bringing France "to its knees" by carrying out an al-Qaida-linked terror spree that killed seven people.


New York jail sued after five suicides in two years

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A civil liberties group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing a New York county of poor oversight of a local jail where five inmates have committed suicide since 2010. The New York Civil Liberties Union filed its suit in state Supreme Court against Nassau County, on Long Island, in light of the recent death of Iraq war veteran Bartholomew Ryan. Ryan, 32, hung himself in February shortly after being jailed on a drunk driving charge, according to the lawsuit. ...

Illinois features high-profile congressional races

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Tammy Duckworth thanks Nancy Suvarnamani, of Chicago, after speaking to supporters in Elk Grove Village, Ill., following her win in Illinois 8th Congressional District Democratic primary on March 20, 2012. Duckworth will face outspoken Republican Congressman Joe Walsh in November. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, George LeClaire) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, TV OUTIllinois Republicans emerged Wednesday from a combative primary in which a freshman congressman ousted a 20-year veteran and pledged to aggressively defend the party's recent gains, despite a new congressional map that whittles the state into districts favoring Democrats.


Suspect in Afghan case a profile in contradictions

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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, soldiers from Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, including Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, take part in exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales boasted of being one of the good guys, a proud patriot who enlisted in the army just two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and engaged in some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq. But the gung-ho military volunteer had a darker, more troubled and contradictory side - which surfaced over and over during his sometimes turbulent life. The 38-year-old Army staff sergeant is accused of killing 16 Afghans, including nine children in March 2012. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock)Robert Bales boasted of being one of the good guys, a proud patriot who enlisted in the Army just two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and engaged in some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq.


Islamists seek influence in Syria uprising

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FILE - In this Sunday March 4, 2012 file photo, a Lebanese anti-Syrian regime Salafi protester, holds a poster in Arabic that reads, The gunmen in eastern Syria, wielding grenade launchers and assault rifles, announced on the Internet they were forming the "God is Great" Brigade and joining the country's rebellion. They swore allegiance to the Free Syrian Army and vowed to topple President Bashar Assad.


Road to radicalization from Toulouse to Kandahar

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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalization ran from a delinquent childhood in Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Merah, 24, who was holed up in a suburban Toulouse apartment on Wednesday, besieged by police commandos from the elite RAID unit, claimed affiliation with al Qaeda and said he wanted to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said. ...

Charges filed against Chevron execs in Brazil

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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2011 file photo, released by Chevron oil company, ships try to control an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Seventeen oil company executives face criminal charges Wednesday, March 21, 2012, for an oil leak in the Atlantic, a legal action that has prompted debate about whether it could slow Brazil's effort to develop its massive offshore finds. At least 110,000 gallons (416,000 liters) of oil seeped through cracks on the ocean floor near a Chevron Corp. appraisal well off the Rio de Janeiro coast in November, 2011. The well drilled by Transocean Ltd. has since been sealed, but a small amount of seepage reappeared in recent days, raising concern the damage is not yet over. (AP Photo/Chevron oil company, file)Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 17 Chevron and Transocean company executives on Wednesday for an oil leak in the Atlantic, a move deemed outrageous by those targeted but applauded by environmentalists.


UN chief: Syria unrest could have global impact

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center, and Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, left, applaud as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono hits a gong to mark the opening of the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Ban told reporters Wednesday that escalating violence in Syria is The "extremely dangerous" conflict in Syria could have global repercussions, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday, as fresh violence erupted and an al-Qaida-inspired group claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Damascus.


French suspect showed no sign of militant leanings, but spent time in militant Pakistani area

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PARIS - Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Another friend said the former car body shop worker liked to talk about "cars, bikes, girls and sports."

French police in standoff with suspected shooter

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Police officers and firefighters stand next to the building where the suspected killer is holed-up in Toulouse Wednesday March 21, 2012 . After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the gunman was planning to kill another soldier imminently.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)In a tense, daylong standoff, French riot police demanded the surrender Wednesday of a gunman whom they say boasted of shooting seven victims in an al-Qaida-linked terror spree.


French suspect showed no sign of militant leanings

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A police officer talks on his mobile phone near to the apartment building where a suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school is barricaded in Toulouse, southern France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. A predawn police raid on a home in Toulouse erupted into a firefight Wednesday with a gunman who claims connections to al-Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary about the former car body shop worker who another friend said liked to talk about "cars, bikes, girls and sports."


Road to radicalisation from Toulouse to Kandahar

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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalisation ran from a delinquent childhood in Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Merah, 24, who was holed up in a suburban Toulouse apartment on Wednesday, besieged by police commandos from the elite RAID unit, claimed affiliation with al Qaeda and said he wanted to avenge Palestinian children, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant said. ...

Fugitive Iraq VP says bodyguard tortured to death

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi accused the government on Wednesday of torturing to death one of his bodyguards, an accusation that could make it more difficult to resolve a case that has split the country's politics on dangerous sectarian fault lines. Hashemi, Iraq's most senior Sunni Arab politician, is sheltering in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq after the government issued an arrest warrant accusing him of running death squads. The case, which erupted on the eve of the U.S. ...

Holed-up French suspect plans nighttime surrender

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Police officers and firefighters stand next to the building where the suspected killer is holed-up in Toulouse Wednesday March 21, 2012 . After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the gunman was planning to kill another soldier imminently.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)The Interior Minister says a holed-up suspect wanted for shooting seven people dead plans to turn himself in to French police surrounding him at night "to be more discreet."


Army examining mental health programs

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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. From working in penny-stock boiler rooms that drew numerous complaints, to an unpaid $1.5 million fraud arbitration judgment, to a failed investment partnership with a former high school teammate who later played in the Super Bowl, Bales has a trail of shaky financial dealing in the United States, records show. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)The Army inspector general is conducting a system-wide review of mental health facilities to determine whether psychiatrists overturned diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder to save money, a move that comes as the case of a U.S. soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians has brought fresh attention to the strains of war.


Book: The Inside Story of How Bell Labs Invented the World We Live in Today

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In the decades before the country's best minds began migrating west to California's Silicon Valley, many of them came east to New Jersey, where they worked in enormous brick-and-glass buildings located on grassy campuses where deer would graze at twilight. In a time before Google, Bell Labs sufficed as the country's intellectual utopia. It was where the future, which is what we now happen to call the present, was conceived and designed.

High court hears suit over Cheney event arrest

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FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed in New York. The Supreme Court seems inclined to shield federal agents who are protecting government officials from claims of free speech violations, in a case that began with the arrest of a man who confronted Vice President Dick Cheney. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)The Supreme Court appeared inclined Wednesday to shield federal agents who are protecting government officials from claims of free speech violations, in a case that began with the arrest of a man who confronted Vice President Dick Cheney.


France's deadly Toulouse shootings: Blame anti-immigrant rhetoric?

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After several Muslims and Jews are murdered, critics wonder if Nicolas Sarkozy ought to tone down France's inflammatory debate on multiculturalism

Death penalty for Staff Sgt. Bales? Not likely.

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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2011 Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division participates in an exercise at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. From working in penny-stock boiler rooms that drew numerous complaints, to an unpaid $1.5 million fraud arbitration judgment, to a failed investment partnership with a former high school teammate who later played in the Super Bowl, Bales has a trail of shaky financial dealing in the United States, records show. (AP Photo/DVIDS, Spc. Ryan Hallock, File)Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the death penalty is possible if a U.S. military court finds an Army staff sergeant guilty of gunning down Afghan children and family members. But it isn't likely.


Army examining medical health programs

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The Army inspector general is conducting a system-wide review of mental health facilities to determine whether psychiatrists overturned diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder to save money, a move that comes as the case of a U.S. soldier suspected of killing 16 Afghan civilians has brought fresh attention to the strains of war.

Teachers, parents, writers explore yin-yang of Titanic for kids ahead of wreck's centennial

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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Eleven-year-old John Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten.

Saudi Arabia pushing Bahrain to solve crisis, fears Syria effect

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Riot police detain an anti-government protester, injured during a fall while running away from the police, during clashes in the village of Sanabis, west of ManamaMANAMA (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia wants Bahrain's government and opposition to resolve a political crisis that it fears could worsen because of the sectarian fallout of fighting in Syria and destabilize its Eastern Province, a diplomat and opposition politician said. Bahrain has been in turmoil since the Arab Spring protest movement first erupted a year ago. Clashes have become a daily occurrence, usually in districts populated by majority Shi'ite Muslims who have dominated the protests. ...


Illinois GOP Primary Duel Goes to Newcomer

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In an unusual race showcasing two Republican incumbents battling each other for survival, freshman Rep. Adam Kinzinger defeated 10-term GOP incumbent Rep. Don Manzullo to win the Republican nomination for Illinois' 16th congressional district. With 99 percent reporting, Kinzinger, 34, won 55.9 percent of the vote to...

Prosecutor: French shooter was planning new attack

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Police officers and firefighters stand next to a building in Toulouse, France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 where a suspect in the shooting at he Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted. French police exchanged fire and were negotiating Wednesday with the gunman who claims connections to al-Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the man was planning to kill another soldier imminently.


Titanic a magnet for kids, fine line for educators

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This March 9, 2012 photo shows John Marcus Payne with his Lego model of the Titanic cruise ship in Glencoe, Ill. Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten. He has scrupulously researched the ship, built a model out of Lego freehand and successfully lobbied his fifth-grade teacher in suburban Chicago to let him mark the disaster's centennial with a multimedia presentation for his class. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Eleven-year-old John Payne has been a student of the Titanic since kindergarten.


French prosecutor: Gunman planned to kill soldier

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TOULOUSE, France - After a pre-dawn raid erupted into a firefight, French riot police pressed Wednesday for the surrender of a holed-up gunman who is suspected in seven killings and claiming allegiance to al-Qaida. A prosecutor said the gunman was planning to kill another soldier imminently.

Consequences for security as NYPD-FBI rift widens

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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly speaks during a news conference in New York. In the fall of 2010, the FBI and New York Police Department were working a terrorism investigation together on Long Island. The cyber case had been open for more than a year at the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn. So the Justice Department was surprised when, without notice, the NYPD went to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and asked them to approve a search warrant in the case. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)In the fall of 2010, the FBI and New York Police Department were working together on a terrorism investigation on Long Island. The cyber case had been open for more than a year at the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn. So, the Justice Department was surprised when, without notice, the NYPD went to federal prosecutors in Manhattan and asked them to approve a search warrant in the case.


New adviser teams key to US exit from Afghanistan

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In this photo taken Feb. 22, 2012, Afghan role-player Farzan Zadran acts at Fort Polk, La. Zadran says his role as an actor for the U.S. military training is important to help American troops understand Afghanistan's culture and people. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)Deep in the piney woods of western Louisiana, a mob of Afghans gathers at the gate of what looks like a typical government building in southern Afghanistan.


Iraqi al Qaeda claims bombs targeting summit security

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An Iraqi policeman stands guard at the site of a bomb attack in RamadiBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq claimed responsibility for dozens of bombings that killed at least 52 people across the country on Tuesday in attacks aimed at undermining tighter security measures ahead of week's Arab League summit in Baghdad. Iraq is due to host the meeting for the first time in over 20 years and the government is anxious to show it can maintain security following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in December. ...


Entrepreneurs exploit economics of Syria uprising

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To match Feature SYRIA-BUSINESS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - While Syria's economy as a whole has been crippled by violent unrest, there are some people for whom the uprising has created business opportunities. Take building contractor Ahmed, who asked to be identified only by his first name for fear of arrest. He has been artfully building unlicensed, small-scale housing while the authorities are distracted with the more pressing task of quelling a revolt. "Yes, yes, I exploit the revolution. The government is preoccupied," the 48-year-old said from his home in Aleppo, Syria's northern, sprawling merchant city of 2.5 million people. ...


Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Iraq attacks

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Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Officials say attacks across Iraq have killed and wounded scores of people in a spate of violence that was dreaded in the days before Baghdad hosts the Arab world's top leaders. (AP Photo)Al-Qaida's front group in Iraq claimed responsibility Wednesday for a wave of attacks that killed 46 people across the country this week and said the violence exposes how weak government security is ahead of the upcoming Arab League summit in Baghdad.


Ala. Legislature offers tax credit for hiring vets

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The Alabama Legislature is ready to offer new tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed veterans.

AP Interview: Prince Ali wants Asian clout in FIFA

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FIFA Vice President Prince Ali bin Al Hussein speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Prince Ali of Jordan is hoping to bring more Prince Ali bin Al Hussein is hoping to bring more positive change to FIFA and help boost Asia's influence in world soccer after spearheading a campaign against a ban on Islamic women wearing hijabs during matches.


4 members of Shiite family killed in Baghdad home

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Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Officials say attacks across Iraq have killed and wounded scores of people in a spate of violence that was dreaded in the days before Baghdad hosts the Arab world's top leaders. (AP Photo)Iraqi officials say assailants have killed a Shiite mother and her three children after breaking into their house in Baghdad.


Militants kill American teacher in Yemen

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SANAA (Reuters) - Gunmen linked to al Qaeda shot dead an American teacher in Yemen on Sunday, accusing him of Christian "proselytizing", and officials said government forces had killed a dozen militants in clashes and attacks on their strongholds. The incidents underscore the challenges facing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who took office last month after a year of massive protests against his predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh. A police source in the city of Taiz said a gunman riding on a motorcycle driven by an accomplice shot the U.S. ...

OLRTXT PLCY JP IR IN US CN ASIA NEWS DIP TRD PROD CRU

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A technician opens the water valve of a pipe inside ONGC group gathering station on the outskirts of AhmedabadIndia pushes refiners to cut Iran imports, despite sanctions scorn NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India, publicly disdainful of sanctions to pressure Iran, has been left off a list of nations given a U.S. waiver from the measures, but is privately pushing its refiners for substantial cuts in imports from the Middle Eastern country. The United States gave exemptions on Tuesday from its crippling financial sanctions to Japan and 10 EU nations it said had cut purchases of Iranian crude, but left Asian economic giants India and China exposed to the risk of such steps. ...


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