AFP – The United States told China it was hurting itself through its sweeping crackdown on dissent and nudged for economic reforms as the Pacific powers held top-level talks that culminate Tuesday.
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US tells Beijing human rights in China’s interest (AFP)
US, China sit down for high-level talks (AFP)
AFP – The United States and China will begin two days of high-level talks on Monday on a gamut of political and economic issues, including thorny areas like human rights, foreign exchange and trade.
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US, China to begin high-level talks (AFP)
AFP – The United States and China will begin two days of high-level talks Monday on a gamut of political and economic issues, including thorny areas like human rights, foreign exchange and trade.
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US-China talks face bumpy road (AFP)
AFP – The United States and China approach high-level talks in Washington this week on a more even footing reflecting the Asian giant’s rising economic power, but a bumpy road lies ahead.
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US jobless rate rises but more jobs created (AFP)
AFP – The US unemployment rate rose to 9.0 percent in April, posing a new challenge to the Obama administration even as businesses added more jobs than expected, official data showed Friday.
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Fed chief holds court, signals end of stimulus plan (AFP)
AFP – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sought to cast the central bank as a dependable custodian of the US recovery in a first-ever press conference, as the bank began to inch away from crisis-era policies.
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Obama presides over Easter eggstravaganza (AFP)
AFP – US President Barack Obama put the cares of nurturing the economic recovery and being a wartime leader briefly to one side Monday — to stand side-by-side with the Easter Bunny.
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US says it wants Cubans to have more freedoms (AFP)
AFP – The United States reacted Tuesday to the Cuban Communist Party congress’ approval of modest economic reform tweaks in the Americas’ only one-party communist regime, saying it wanted Cubans to have more freedom.
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Obama: Debt risks ‘serious damage’ to US (AFP)
AFP – President Barack Obama warned Tuesday at a campaign-style event that failure to rein in galloping deficits may cause “serious damage” to the US economy, even as he assailed Republican spending cuts.
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Activist group behind GE hoax (AFP)
AFP – An activist group took credit for putting out a fake press release claiming General Electric had decided to donate a purported $3.2 billion tax refund to the US Treasury.
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US Republicans push deep long-term spending cuts (AFP)
AFP – President Barack Obama’s Republican foes, warning the debt-heavy US economy is hurtling towards collapse, called Monday for trillions of dollars of long-term spending cuts in a politically risky budget proposal.
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Japan disaster to cost Australia $2 bln in lost trade (AFP)
AFP – The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan will cost Australia some Aus$2 billion (US$2.07 billion) in lost export earnings, trimming economic growth, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday.
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