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In NYC, biggest fireworks show in US set to begin »
From AP News | 2009-07-05 01:54:54
Fireworks lit the night sky above New York with a kaleidoscope of colors shooting 1,000 feet into the air on an Independence Day that began with the Statue of Liberty's crown opening to the public for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001. It was the nation's biggest fireworks display, with more than 22 tons of pyrotechnics exploding Saturday over a mile-and-a-half of the Hudson River, a new vantage point for New York ...
WITNESS: Battling to borrow money in sanctions-hit Sudan »
From Reuters US Online Report World News | 2009-07-05 00:41:06
Andrew Heavens is a reporter and photographer who has worked with Reuters since 2005, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and now Khartoum, Sudan. His African career followed 10 years of reporting for newspapers in Britain and the United States. In the following story, he recounts his experience of U.S. economic sanctions on the country whose president Omar Hassan al-Bashir is accused of masterminding human rights abuses in Darfur. By Andrew Heavens KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United States achieved at least three things when it stepped up economic sanctions on Sudan: it ...
Returning Asians to fill talent gap, boost innovation »
From Reuters US Online Report Business News | 2009-07-05 00:33:46
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - "Go East" is a message being heeded by many Asian professionals in the United States and Europe who see brighter job prospects in a region that is expected to outperform the rest of the world for economic growth. Zhang Zheng Han, 26, is one of a growing flock of highly educated Asians living in the West who have bought one-way tickets home, lured by job opportunities, family ties and a comfortable lifestyle. "Right now no nation is changing as swiftly as China," he said. "There are so many ...
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