Reuters – Taiwan’s president met briefly on Thursday with a Chinese official in one of the highest-level contacts between the two sides since the Chinese civil war, while protesters clashed with riot police outside.
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Reuters – Europe’s top central banks are under pressure to slash borrowing costs on Thursday as market focus shifts back to grim economic realities from the excitement of Barack Obama’s historic victory in the U.S. presidential vote.
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AP – Taiwan’s leader called a visit by the highest-ranking Communist Chinese official to ever come to the island a success, after the two briefly met while rowdy anti-China protesters gathered in the streets.
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AFP – Taiwan’s democratically-elected President Ma Ying-jeou made history Thursday when he became the first leader of the island to meet with a senior Chinese official since the end of a civil war in 1949.
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AFP – Voters go to the polls for a key by-election in Gordon Brown’s backyard Thursday which will show if his leadership over the credit crunch can translate into an electoral renaissance.
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AP – Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou says that the highest-ranking Chinese envoy ever to visit Taiwan has had a successful trip.
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AP – As of Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, at least 4,191 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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AP – Japanese shares fell sharply in early trade Thursday, pressured by lingering fears over a global recession as investors looked past Barack Obama’s U.S. presidential victory.
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Reuters – A local Scottish election next door to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s home turf on Thursday will test how he’s seen since he won international praise for handling the financial crisis.
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AP – The nearly $5 billion U.S. aid package known as Plan Colombia failed to meet its goal of halving illegal narcotics production in this Andean nation, says a U.S. congressional report released Wednesday.
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