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From The Financial Times
- Obama wants ban on risk-based pricing
- A Barack Obama administration would seek to ban risk-based pricing on all individual health insurance plans to stop companies cherry-picking healthy customers, a senior adviser has said
- Bush says China key to climate progress
- President George W. Bush said he was prepared to be 'constructive' in discussions on climate change, but he insisted any deal was contingent on the participation of China and India
- G8 under fire for 'failure' to tackle bribery
- Group of Eight countries are failing to stamp out corruption and bribery, with damaging implications for trade, business and broader international goals, such as...
- Obama seeks to tackle doubters
- The move from the left seems to be working but policy refinements may just look like flip-flops, reports Andrew Ward
- McCain turns to man who made 'The Governator'
- Steve Schmidt, the combative Republican given the job of revamping John McCain's faltering presidential campaign, has a Democrat to thank for catapulting him into the big league of US political strategists
- Philanthropy goes to the dogs
- Generosity often means relinquishing power. It does not mean assigning armies of the less wealthy to tasks of one's own devising, writes Christopher Caldwell
- Bush to attend Olympics opening
- The president and the first lady will go to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in China as human rights activists call for world leaders to boycott the event
- IRS to seek accountants' help on evasion
- The US tax service is to solicit the help of top accounting firms in finding foreign banks that fail to identify US clients with investments or income in offshore accounts
- McCain vows anti-drug projects with Mexico
- John McCain, the Republican US presidential candidate, ended a 24-hour visit to Mexico promising that as president he would ensure greater co-operation with the US's neighbour in its war against drugs
- LA Confrontational
- Actors and studios should beware: they cannot assume consumers deprived of films will remain loyal. This episode of Star Wars needs a happy ending soon
- US jobs fall for sixth straight month
- The US lost jobs in June for the sixth month in a row while jobless numbers remained at an elevated level, signalling an ongoing deterioration in the labour market and helping to push back thoughts of a hike in interest rates
- Threat of disruption hangs over US ports
- Vital west coast ports in the US could face significant disruption after a key contract between workers and employers expired and unions refused to allow a temporary extension
- Tentative deal for US missile base in Poland
- The agreement, still subject to final approval, removes a big obstacle to a defence system that is controversial within Washington and viewed with suspicion by Russia
- Colombian troops rescue Betancourt
- Álvaro Uribe, Colombia's president, secured one of the most significant triumphs of his political career when troops freed Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages held by the leftwing Farc guerrillas
- EU fears of 'fishing trips' for bank data
- US authorities could launch vast trawls of EU citizens' bank records, spending habits, travel history and other personal data under a draft agreement being negotiated...
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