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Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus has less than 19 months before his next major test, the 2014 elections, to turn around a party with a tarnished brand, skeptical consumers, revenue challenges and internal divisions.
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Workers at Chilean copper mines owned by BHP Billiton Ltd. and Anglo American Plc are preparing protests to push for greater job security, a union leader said.
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Anita Manfredi got 18 mud baths, nine massages and 12 spray showers at a spring water spa last month. The French state footed two-thirds of the $1,022 bill.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his future should be decided by voters and denied that his nation is embroiled in a civil war.
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The president of the European Banking Federation is urging lenders in the region to reinvent themselves and discard the areas of their business that place too large a capital burden on their balance sheets.
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In Florida, thousands of voters received phone calls erroneously telling them they had until tomorrow night to vote. In Pennsylvania, judges ordered a mural of President Barack Obama covered at a polling place and the re- installation of Republican officials who had been ejected from polling places.
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The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, a workers umbrella organization, is marching in Dublin today against a 15 billion-euro ($20 billion) austerity package aimed at cutting the government’s budget deficit.
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The internal conflicts within the political leadership of the Syrian opposition were highlighted by the resignation of a prominent voice of the Syrian National Council.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ’s divide-and- conquer strategy prevailed in Chicago by pitting construction workers against employees who will stock shelves and ring registers.
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Trades Union Congress General Secretary Brendan Barber said Bank of England Governor Mervyn King ’s speech this week will attract “a lot of interest” from his members after one union leader pledged to boycott it.
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