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Friday, July 27, 2012

New government takes over in Serbia

BELGRADE, Serbia, July 27 (UPI) -- A coalition government was installed Friday in Serbia with Parliament approving the new cabinet. Prime Minister Ivica Dacic was to take office later in the day, Tanjug reported. Dacic, who served as deputy prime minister under Mirko Cvetković for the past four... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Ex-Pakistan leader's account stays closed

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, July 26 (UPI) -- A Pakistani judge has refused a bank's request to reopen a bank account of former President Pervez Musharraf, judicial officials said. The ruling on the request by Habib Bank Ltd. in Islamabad came from a special judge Wednesday, The Express Tribune said.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

EEOC wins money for obese worker

HOUSTON, July 25 (UPI) -- A Texas man who weighed almost 700 pounds when he was fired is to receive $55,000 in a settlement of an equal opportunity complaint, officials said. BAE Systems Tactical Vehicle Systems, a company headquartered in Virginia, also agreed to provide six months of job-hunting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Pioneer woman astronaut Sally Ride dies

WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, has died of pancreatic cancer at age 61, her organization, sallyridescience.com, announced Monday. Ride, who was 32 when she launched aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, was with the National... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Israel wants EU to blacklist Hezbollah

JERUSALEM, July 23 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman plans to ask European foreign ministers to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, officials said. Lieberman was scheduled to arrive in Brussels Monday to meet with European Union Foreign Policy head Catherine Ashton and... Sign in to see full entry.

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