Top News - Breaking News - World News from Reuters (April 2011 Diet)

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LONDON (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange will find itself in a tight spot trying to fend off a rival bid for Canada's TMX Group, a deal it badly needs to rejuvenate its centuries-year old business.

Source: Maple's rival bid for TMX puts LSE in tight spot

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani teenager wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the Pakistani Taliban denied on Sunday any connection with the militants, saying his family was only helping victims of war.

Source: Pakistani charged in U.S. over Taliban support denies link

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday rejected a proposal to scale back tax breaks for big oil firms, calling it a political maneuver.

Source: McConnell rejects higher taxes on oil firms

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AMELIA, Louisiana (Reuters) - A day after Army engineers opened a key spillway to relieve flooding along the Mississippi River, residents of small Louisiana towns braced on Sunday for a surge of water that could leave thousands of homes and farms under as much as 20 feet of water.

Source: Louisiana bayou towns brace for flooding impact

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc and IntercontinentalExchange withdrew their hostile $11.3 billion bid for rival NYSE Euronext on Monday, citing opposition from U.S. antitrust regulators.

Source: Nasdaq, ICE withdraw NYSE bid, cite regulators

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, setting the stage for a high-profile U.S. visit, said on Monday a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas Islamists could not be Israel's peace partner.

Source: Netanyahu says Palestinian unity government not a peace partner

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump will not be adding the White House to his luxury resort holdings. The Donald on Monday took himself off the 2012 Republican presidential candidate list.

Source: Trump abandons designs on White House in 2012

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VICKSBURG, Mississippi (Reuters) - The historic Civil War city of Vicksburg, which withstood a 47-day Union army siege in 1863, was facing a different kind of invasion on Monday as flooding threatened to top an earth levee nearby.

Source: Historic Vicksburg, Mississippi faces flood siege

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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan/KABUL (Reuters) - NATO helicopters from Afghanistan intruded into northwest Pakistan Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, officials said, prompting a protest from the military already seething over the secret U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden.

Source: Pakistan military protests after NATO incursion wounds soldiers

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AMMAN (Reuters) - The West warned of more pressure on Syria on Tuesday if a crackdown against pro-democracy protests continues, hours after tanks stormed a city in the south, cradle of an uprising against Baathist rule.

Source: Tanks storm south Syria city as U.S. piles on pressure