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•Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks
by By ANN SANNER
7 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer....
[From AP Top Headlines At 3:20 a.m. EST]
•CNN: Gupta approached about surgeon general post
by By LAURAN NEERGAARD
9 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades....
[From AP Top Headlines At 3:20 a.m. EST]
•EU faces deepening energy crunch over Russian gas
32 minutes ago
MOSOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Russian gas supplies to Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were halted on Wednesday, adding to the list of EU states left without Russian fuel in freezing mid-winter temperatures.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Egypt floats truce plan after 42 killed in Gaza school
33 minutes ago
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Dead Wis. man tied to missing Minn. boy
40 minutes ago
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A dead Milwaukee man left behind a house containing disturbing items revealing his interest in a Minnesota boy who disappeared 19 years ago, police say.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
•Pakistani spy chief says no war with India
40 minutes ago
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The chief of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has said there will not be a war with India over November's militant attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, Der Spiegel reported. Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha told the German magazine in an interview terrorism, not India, was Pakistan's enemy, and he said he took orders from the civilian president.
[From Reuters: Top News]
•Ukraine: Russia stops sending gas to Europe
by By MARIA DANILOVA
42 minutes ago
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russia had cut off all gas supplies through pipelines crossing Ukrainian territory, the latest move in a devastating pricing dispute between the two neighbors that has already left a number of countries without gas....
[From AP Top Headlines At 3:20 a.m. EST]
•Tulsa rolls over Ball State in wet GMAC Bowl
by By JOHN ZENOR
44 minutes ago
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Tulsa raced through the rain to another GMAC Bowl win and a couple more records, too. Tarrion Adams rushed for 207 yards and three touchdowns in the 45-13 victory over No. 23 Ball State on a soggy Tuesday night. The Golden Hurricane (11-3) finished with a school-record 11 victories....
[From AP Top Headlines At 3:20 a.m. EST]
•Alcoa to cut 13 percent of global work force
by By DANIEL LOVERING
51 minutes ago
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. is cutting roughly 13 percent of its global work force by the end of the year as it slashes costs in the face of a deteriorating world economy....
[From AP Top Headlines At 3:20 a.m. EST]
•Japan eyes bank injections to counter crisis
1 hour ago
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is reportedly considering cash injections for scores of regional banks in an effort to encourage lending as the financial crisis creates havoc for companies and economies around the globe. A big cut in aluminum output from Alcoa Inc and bankruptcy protection filings by U.S. units of LyondellBasell, the world's third-largest petrochemical company, provided the latest evidence of the corporate struggle with the worst downturn in decades. [nN06446350]
[From Reuters: Top News]
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