Reuters: Top News - Breaking News - World News [March ‘11 Diet]

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TOKYO (Reuters) - While images of brutal destruction wreaked by a devastating earthquake and tsunami have stunned the nation and the world, Japanese are finding both inspiration and reasons to vent in the aftermath of the disaster.

Source: Japanese inspired and angered; resigned to more quakes

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley resigned on Sunday after reports that he labeled as "stupid" and "ridiculous" the Pentagon's treatment of a U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website.

Source: State Department spokesman Crowley steps down amid flap

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MADISON, Wis (Reuters) - Scott Walker, Wisconsin's newly elected Republican governor, won his battle last week to get the curbs he backed on public-sector unions approved by the state legislature and signed into law.

Source: Wisconsin Democrats say down but not out in union fight

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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Anonymous, a hacker group sympathetic to WikiLeaks, released on Monday emails that it obtained from someone who said he is a former Bank of America Corp employee.

Source: Hacker group releases BofA employee correspondence

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TOKYO (Reuters) - A massive selloff on the Tokyo Stock Exchange wiped out some 23.5 trillion yen ($287 billion) from the market's value on Monday with investors dumping stocks as the country recoiled from a devastating earthquake and struggled to avert nuclear disaster.

Source: Quake selloff wipes $287 billion off Tokyo stock market

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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima is built right on the shoreline in northeast Japan. So when an 8.9 magnitude earth quake struck on Friday, the giant tsunami waves it spawned crashed over the reactors and put them at risk of a meltdown.

Source: Special report: Can Japan find "New Deal" after triple whammy?

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc struck a deal to buy lubricant maker Lubrizol Corp for $9 billion in a bet on industrial growth in emerging economies.

Source: Buffett bets on emerging markets with Lubrizol buy

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Austria on Monday called for European nuclear power plants to face stress tests to reassure people worried by the crisis in Japan while Britain and France urged calm.

Source: Europe split over nuclear safety amid Japan crisis

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives is likely to pass yet another in a series of stopgap spending bills on Tuesday to keep the government running, as both Republicans and Democrats try to move on to address longer-term fiscal problems.

Source: House vote will paper over splits on funding

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will shut down all seven of its nuclear power plants that began operation before 1980 and it is unclear whether they will start up again, the government said on Tuesday.

Source: Germany to shut down pre-1980 nuclear plants