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ATHENS, Greece - As riots engulfed Athens, Greece's prime minister said Wednesday he would reshuffle his Cabinet and seek a vote of confidence for his new government this week, after coalition talks with opposition parties failed. George Papandreou's announcement came after hours of negotiations over a crucial austerity bill on a day when central Athens was rocked once more by anti-austerity riots and the debt-ridden country came under massive pressure from markets.
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One day, as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, "How did this happen?" Paulson, who headed Goldman Sachs before taking the Treasury job, remarks in his memoir, "It was a humbling question for someone from the financial sector to be asked - after all, we were the ones responsible. That's an honest enough admission about the culpability of the financial community in bundling the toxic derivatives packages still disastrously undermining the economic health of the nation. Even more startling was Paulson's admission in his memoir that he, at the time he was advising the president, still did not know that home mortgages were at the heart of those troubling securities that his former company had marketed...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Shiite prime minister promised Sunday to reshuffle his Cabinet after calling lawmakers disloyal and blaming Sunni Muslims for raging sectarian violence that claimed at least 159 more lives, including 35 men blown apart while waiting to join Iraq's police force. Among the unusually high number of dead were 50 bodies found behind a regional electrical company in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, and 25 others found scattered throughout the capital. Three U.S. troops were reported killed, as were four British service members.
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WASHINGTON -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson abandoned his nomination to become commerce secretary under pressure of a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors -- an investigation that threatened to embarrass President- elect Barack Obama. Richardson insisted he would be cleared in the investigation, and Obama stood by the governor as an "outstanding public servant." But both men said it has become clear that a grand jury probe would not be finished in time for Richardson's confirmation hearings and could keep him from filling the post in a timely matter.
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CAIRO - Embattled President Hosni Mubarak fired his Cabinet early today and promised reforms after protesters engulfed his country in chaos - battling police with stones and firebombs, burning down the ruling party headquarters and defying a night curfew enforced by a military deployment. It was the peak of unrest posing the most dire threat to Mubarak in his three decades of authoritarian rule.
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If potential customers or industry comrades didn't knock on his door, Danny Hill might never leave his wood shop. He's been known to stay there all day and almost all night. The owner of Hill's Cabinets & Specialties in Evans usually works six days a week, but he doesn't have far to travel. His home is behind his shop at 4734 Washington Road.
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Virginia Gov.-elect Timothy M. Kaine last week announced two more appointments to his Cabinet. The Democrat, who takes office Jan. 14 after serving four years as lieutenant governor, named former Delegate Viola O. Baskerville to be secretary of administration, and labor leader Daniel G. LeBlanc secretary of the commonwealth.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's president named half his Cabinet Tuesday, angering opposition leaders who accuse him of stealing the recent election and undermining mediation attempts for a power- sharing agreement to end violence that has left more than 500 dead. In the hours after President Mwai Kibaki announced his Cabinet appointments, police fired over the heads of youths who set up a roadblock of burning tires in the western town of Kisumu, according to a resident there. In Nairobi's oldest slum, Mathare, a witness reported hearing the first gunshots in three days just an hour after the announcement.
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Gov.-elect Tom Corbett announced two key appointments Wednesday, saying he intends to nominate Stephen Aichele as general counsel and Barry Schoch as Transportation secretary. Aichele, 62, of Tredyffrin in Chester County, is chairman of the law firm Saul Ewing. He also is an adjunct law professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.
