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New French President Francois Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands in Washington, Friday, May, 18. 2012
(photo: AP / Christophe Ena)
David Cameron threatens veto on French plan for bankers tax
The Daily Telegraph
David Cameron held his first meeting with Francois Hollande and threatened to veto the new French president’s plan for a European tax on financial transactions. | Downing Street said Mr Cameron delivered a strong message to Francois Hollande over a financial transactions tax Photo: Getty ...
File - British Army Lt. Gen. James Bucknall, the International Security Assistance Force deputy commander, speaks with Afghan National Army soldiers during his visit to Joint Combat Outpost Pul-e-Sayad, Afghanistan, April 27, 2011.
(photo: US Army / Spc. Kristina Gupton)
Afghan war will cost British taxpayers £20 billion by time mission is complete
The Daily Telegraph
Britain's war in Afghanistan will cost taxpayers almost £20 billion by time the mission draws to a close, new figures have revealed. | Despite the winding down of operations, the remaining years of Afghan operations are estimated to cost the UK at least another £800 million Photo: PA | B...
Greece Reflects Growing Economic Turmoil
GlobalResearch
| Straightjacket Eurozone rules trap 17 dissimilar countries. Greece proved most vulnerable. It's cratering under imposed austerity.  | It's the epicenter of Europe's deepening economic crisis. Fed up Greeks want change. May 6 parliamentary elec...
Army Convoy Heading Towards NATO Summit As Chicago Law Enforcement Prepares For War With Protesters
Pakalert Press
Share | Alex Thomas | theintelhub | Chicago police and security personal are set for what they seem to believe will be a full scale battle with protesters during this weekends NATO Summit. | With numerous protest groups set to launch widespread prote...
18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has Just Gone From Bad To Worse
Pakalert Press
Share | With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone.  The si...
3 charged with terror conspiracy ahead of NATO
The News & Observer
AP Photo Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here By TAMMY WEBBER and SHANNON MCFARLAND - Associated Press By TAMMY WEBBER and SHANNON MCFARLAND Tags: | CHICAGO -- Three men arrested earlier this week when police rai...
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WN / Yolanda Leyba
Facebook: the sale of the century?
The Daily Telegraph
Ahead of Friday’s $96bn IPO, Facebook has to persuade fund managers its founder adds up to a good investment. | The absence of Zuckerberg from the presentation at the Four Se...
Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74, right, and her life partner Nancy Ruth Davis, 75, pose intheir home in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 10, 2012. At the birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons at New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history.
AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Gay Marriage – It May Destroy Western Civilization, But It Sure is a Wonderful Fundraiser
CounterPunch
| It started with lesbian couples in Vermont in the mid-90s, freaked out they’d lose their babies. Vermont Freedom to Marry was born, and is now the most powerful Democratic or...
Specialist Peter Giacchi, center, calls out prices as he works at the post that handles JP Morgan on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, May 11, 2012.
AP / Richard Drew
JPMorgan's big loss: Explain it to me
CNN
By Charles Riley @CNNMoneyInvest May 11, 2012: 1:05 PM ET | NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- What, exactly, is going on at JPMorgan Chase? Something about whales? | Um, well, yes. Allow us t...
Eurozone talks top agenda as G8 summit gets under way
The Daily Telegraph
President Barack Obama has welcomed David Cameron and other world leaders to Camp David near Washington for the G8 summit, where the deepening crisis over the eurozone is expected to dominate talks. |   Image 1 of 4 Barack Obama s...
Rubio's past includes political vulnerabilities
The News & Observer
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and BRENDAN FARRINGTON Tags: | MIAMI -- Sen. Marco Rubio has close ties to a colleague accu...
Three arrested in NATO raid charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism
The Examiner
| According to National Lawyers Guild (NLG) attorneys working for three men in police custody they have been charged with three serious charges each. All have been held since a raid on an apartment in the 1000 block of West 32nd in the Bridgeport nei...
Business
2010 Ford Mustang photographed at the 2009 Washington DC Auto Show.
(photo: Public Domain / IFCAR)
Auto sales rise to most since 2007 on best U.S. run in 40 years
Ohio
| U.S. auto sales are on pace for the best showing since 2007 and a third year in a row of at least 10 percent gains, only the fourth such streak since the Great Depression, as more confident buyers return to showrooms. | Automakers are adding overnight shifts and cutting workers’ vacations to meet demand. | Sales this year might reach 14.3 m...
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President Barack Obama his fists in the air when he stopped in his chief of staff's office to monitor the staff's progress in lobbying members of Congress to vote for the bill.
(photo: Public Domain / The White House from Washington, DC)
Obama caught up in pastor smear campaign
Canberra Times
| Barack Obama ... a "metrosexual black Abe Lincoln". Photo: AP | The Wrap | It is not often you get to see inside a political smear campaign before it is launched, but the New York Times secured a conservative attack plan lock, stock and barrel. | The President was to have been linked to the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a controversia...



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