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NEW YORK, April 5- A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration for interfering with the process for political purposes.
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JUNEAU, Alaska-- Opponents of a proposed oil tax overhaul rallied across the Alaska, including on the steps of the state Capitol, Thursday, while a rewritten tax bill advanced in the state House. Supporters of a tax change say Alaska can't stand by as production continues to decline. Alaska relies heavily on oil revenues to run.
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PARIS, April 5- Chancellor Angela Merkel's Social Democrat rival in this year's election accused the German leader during a visit to France on Friday of dragging Europe's southern economies into a vicious circle of ruin by insisting on fiscal austerity.
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ATHERTON, Calif.-- Making a down payment on his vow to go all in for Democrats in 2014, President Barack Obama courted well-heeled donors in California on a two-day fundraising jaunt that required him to walk a fine line: Berate Republicans too much, and Obama could put fragile prospects for achieving his second-term goals in jeopardy.
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--Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. That's the question that should be asked after Thursday's announcement by Royal Dutch Shell that it would close its Geelong refinery in Victoria state and convert it to an import terminal if a buyer couldn't be found.
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President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other benefits programs in a budget proposal next week aimed at winning over enough congressional Republicans to pass a broad deal to reduce the deficit.
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ATHERTON, Calif., April 4- President Barack Obama acknowledged on Thursday that getting big changes to gun laws through the U.S. Congress would be challenging, telling donors at a California fundraiser gun control was a tougher issue than immigration reform.
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SAO PAULO, April 4- She's one of the world's most popular presidents with an approval rating that is the envy of her peers in richer countries struggling with debt crises and political deadlock- 79 percent and rising. And yet, it's entirely possible that Dilma Rousseff could fail to win re-election as president of Brazil in October 2014.
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Nicholas Spiro, managing director at Spiro Sovereign Strategy, tells CNBC that markets are much more ambivalent to political machinations than two years ago.
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Bridget Welsh, Associate Professor, Political Science at Singapore Management University (SMU) says that Malaysia's opposition parties have a fighting chance of winning the country's general elections.
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TOKYO, April 4- The Bank of Japan is expected to embark on a bold experiment of pulling out all the stops to get prices rising after nearly two decades of deflation, starting with boosting asset purchases and targeting longer-dated government bonds.
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April 3- Jim O'Neill, head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, thinks Beppe Grillo and his Five Star Movement is a greater threat to Europe and the euro than the trials of little Cyprus.
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BUDAPEST, April 3- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's authoritarian ways have alarmed international partners and put off millions of voters, but he is on track for reelection next year due to a standoff between two would-be challengers from the left.
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JERUSALEM- Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November.
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Nationalists in Kyrgyzstan are threatening to return to the streets to topple another government unless it expropriates the Kumtor goldmine, a treasure they say was sold off too cheaply to foreigners.
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KUMTOR, Kyrgyzstan, April 3- In an impoverished young nation with a habit of overthrowing its rulers, the future now balances on a mountain of gold at the top of the world, where the air is so thin collapsing visitors may be rushed to a pressure chamber for oxygen.
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UNITED NATIONS- The 193- nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the first treaty on the global arms trade, which seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers.
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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced he will dissolve parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for a long-anticipated general election late this month.
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The island of Borneo may be all that stands between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and an unprecedented election defeat within weeks for his ruling coalition party.
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ROME, April 2- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano expressed despair on Tuesday at fierce criticism of his latest plan to end a post-election deadlock that has raised fears of months of instability in the euro zone's third largest economy.