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Brandon Short says he’s found a way to recapture the excitement he experienced playing football for the New York Giants almost six years ago.
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India cut interest rates for a third straight meeting to revive growth, extending the only reduction in borrowing costs among major emerging nations this year.
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History has been kind to Bretton Woods, the international economic conference that took place in the mountains of New Hampshire in the summer of 1944.
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President Barack Obama arrived in Mexico today with a message that ties the immigration debate in the U.S. to economic growth on both sides of the border.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. and a group of companies won a 3.6 trillion-rupiah ($370 million) contract from Indonesia to build an underground tunnel for a proposed mass rapid transit system in Jakarta.
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Jamaica will receive a $932 million loan from the International Monetary Fund after the Caribbean island restructured about $9 billion in local debt for the second time in three years.
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Tom Kellermann got off a flight in Ottawa, Canada, when he noticed his iPhone acting unusual: It was trying to sync with unknown devices somewhere in the airport.
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The World Bank lowered its forecast for Mongolia’s economic expansion this year on falling exports and foreign investments, and said the government needs to better manage spending.
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At Singapore’s Fullerton Bay Hotel, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak smile and toss yusheng, a raw-fish salad symbolizing prosperity, and in this case a thaw in five decades of feuding.
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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked government agencies for an explanation of a new incident this month in the northern city of Haiphong where protests took place last year.
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