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• Official fired after helicopter ride to wedding
BUCHAREST, Romania - A Romanian Cabinet minister was fired Tuesday after he used a government helicopter to make it to his wedding on time. Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu fired Education Minister Cristian Adomnitei, 33, after it ...
• Rush is on to hire companies to manage bailout
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department has set an extremely short timetable for picking the companies that will help manage its $700 billion bailout program, which analysts say raises the risk the government will overpay. The department on Monday said ...
• Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops
Iraqi officials say the draft calls for U.S. troops to leave the country by the end of 2011 unless the Baghdad government asks them to stay. But legal immunity for U.S. soldiers under Iraqi law has emerged as the major obstacle, with neither side able ...
• After bailout, AIG sent executives to the spa
WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday ...
• Afghan refugees flee Pakistan war zone
An Afghan community leader in Khar, Bajur's main town, urged the government to provide transportation for the refugees. "We are poor people, and we don't have enough money to pay for the buses," Ghulam Jan told an AP reporter. Authorities were ...