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 Man gets 13 years in prison for bank robberies
| FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A serial bank robber was sentenced to 13 years in prison after admitting he committed a string of bank heists across South Florida. | Steven Gass pleaded guilty in May to six... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) Herald Tribune
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 Philippines swimming in rice amid high imports
| MANILA, Philippines - The world's biggest rice importer, the Philippines, is now "swimming" in the staple grain because of massive imports by the previous government that drove world prices to recor... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) Herald Tribune
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 Berlusconi Splits With a Coalition Ally
| ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi split with one of his major allies, Gianfranco Fini, on Thursday night, weakening Italy’s governing coalition and ra... (photo: AP / Alberto Pellaschiar) The New York Times
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 Syrian and Saudi Leaders in Lebanon for Talks
| BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived in Beirut on Friday for talks on possible indictments of Syria&rsqu... (photo: AP / Grace Kassab) The New York Times
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 Trying to Spread Africa's Wealth
| NICE — In years past, Africa was always the outsiders’ cornucopia, the font of gold and diamonds, slaves and minerals, cotton and rubber and, more latterly,... (photo: AP / George Osodi) The New York Times
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 Wall Street Slips After U.S. Data on Growth
| Traders on Wall Street got what they had been waiting for all week — a look at the crucial second-quarter report on economic growth in the United States. | The re... (photo: AP / Richard Drew) The New York Times
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 Massa Returns to Budapest Under a Cloud
| The stage might have been set for a heartwarming tale of human resilience, of a man who had faced down death to return victorious to the scene of a horrendous accident ... (photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky) The New York Times
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 Greece and the Power of Negative Thinking
| Once the cradle of European civilization, Greece is now at the epicenter of Europe’s economic crisis. The now-fading consensus in the market and among opinion-mak... (photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris) The New York Times
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