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Economy
1:00 am
Thu February 16, 2012

Frustrations Mount As Greece Waits For Economic Lifeline

Originally published on Thu February 16, 2012 7:53 am

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Asia
1:00 am
Thu February 16, 2012

Update On Thailand Bombing

Thailand says three Iranians arrested this week were planning to assassinate Israeli diplomats in Bangkok. The bombs went off on Tuesday, wounding one Iranian and four Thai residents. Since then, Israel and Iran have been trading accusations of waging shadow warfare against each other through a series of recent attempted assassinations in several countries.

Business
1:00 am
Thu February 16, 2012

The Last Word In Business

Kellogg, the name behind many offerings in the cereal aisle, will now have its name on cans of Pringles. It has purchased the potato chip brand from Procter & Gamble for $2.7 billion.

Latin America
9:01 pm
Wed February 15, 2012

Mexican Cartels Push Meth Beyond U.S. Market

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Mexican police show the drug and weapons seized from Jaime Herrera Herrera, an alleged drug cartel member, in Mexico City on Tuesday.

Mexican Federal Police, some of them covered head to toe in white hazardous-materials suits, paraded Jaime Herrera Herrera in front of the media in handcuffs this week. Officials say he was the methamphetamine mastermind for Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who runs the powerful Sinaloa cartel.

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Shots - Health Blog
9:01 pm
Wed February 15, 2012

Latest Drug Shortage Threatens Children With Leukemia

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Many hospitals are perilously close to running out of a form of methotrexate that's necessary to inject in high doses to treat certain forms of cancer.

It's a new kind of brinksmanship for U.S. doctors: caring for patients with life-threatening diseases when the supply of critical drugs threatens to disappear.

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