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BEIJING (Reuters) - China finished 2010 with a bang, its growth soaring past forecasts and inflation slowing less than expected, numbers that could prod the government to intensify its easy-does-it approach to tightening.

China's sizzling end to 2010 calls for tighter policy

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday declined to rule out trying the men accused of planning the September 11, 2001 attacks in federal criminal courts, despite efforts by Congress to force military trials.

U.S. weighing all options for 9/11 trials: Holder

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A government commission will urge the U.S. military this spring to allow women to serve as combat soldiers, but the Pentagon is not likely to adopt those recommendations any time soon as it struggles with two long wars and a new policy toward gay troops.

Women soldiers not seen picking up combat arms soon

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao headed home on Friday after a U.S. visit both sides declared a success, but which left questions over how the world's top two economic powers will manage future frictions.

Hu's U.S. visit sets new tone but tensions remain

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation that would allow U.S. states to file for bankruptcy will likely be introduced in Congress within the next month, Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives and a powerful Republican party figure, told Reuters on Friday.

State bankruptcy bill imminent, Gingrich says

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords arrived in Texas on Friday to start the next phase of her recovery at a Houston rehabilitation center following 13 days of treatment at an Arizona hospital for a gunshot wound to the head.

Giffords flies to Texas rehab center

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. cable news television network MSNBC and its top anchor, Keith Olbermann, abruptly parted ways on Friday, less than three months after the liberal broadcaster was suspended for campaign donations to Democrats.

Source: MSNBC and anchor Keith Olbermann abruptly part ways

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Apple's App Store reached landmark 10 billion downloads on Saturday, further underlining the lead of the iPhone-maker in mobile online software battle, a counter on front page of the store showed.

Source: Apple's App Store hits 10 billion downloads

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DERRY, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney easily won a poll of several hundred Republican delegates Saturday about whom they would choose to take on Democrat Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.

Source: Mitt Romney easily wins New Hampshire Republican poll

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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's central banker said in a Sunday newspaper interview that talk of debt restructuring is hurting the country as it struggles to exit a huge fiscal crisis that has shaken the euro zone.

Source: Talk of debt restructuring hurts Greece: central banker