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Icahn sues Dell in latest attempt to foil buyout

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- Activist investor Carl Icahn sued Dell Inc and its board on Thursday, his latest attempt to derail a $24.4 billion buyout bid by the computer maker's founder and CEO Michael Dell.

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House Republicans to push $40 billion cut to food stamp program

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WASHINGTON - House Republicans plan to seek a $40 billion cut in food stamps for the poor, the head of the House Agriculture Committee said on Thursday, double the amount previously sought by conservatives.

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Column: Italy confronts its fate after Berlusconi sentence upheld

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(John Lloyd is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.)

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Russia gives Snowden asylum, Obama-Putin summit in doubt

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MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Russia rejected U.S. pleas and granted American fugitive Edward Snowden a year's asylum on Thursday, letting the former spy agency contractor slip out of a Moscow airport after more than five weeks in limbo while angering the United States and putting in doubt a planned summit between the two nations' presidents. | Video

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Egypt's rulers tell pro-Mursi protesters to quit camps

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CAIRO - Egypt's army-backed government warned supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi on Thursday to abandon their Cairo protest camps, promising them a safe exit if they gave up without a fight. | Video

World, Egypt 5:56pm EDT

Italy supreme court upholds Berlusconi jail sentence

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ROME - Italy's supreme court on Thursday upheld a jail sentence against Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud in a devastating blow to the four-times prime minister that could throw the country's fragile coalition government into crisis. | Video

World, Italy 5:54pm EDT

Consumers hungry for trucks in July; fleet sales weak

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DETROIT - Auto sales to individual U.S. consumers beat expectations in July and major automakers reported low inventories for many hot-selling models, such as Ford Motor Co's Fusion mid-size sedan, suggesting sales would strengthen further this year. | Video

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Cleveland abductor Castro defiant as he gets life in prison

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CLEVELAND - The Cleveland school bus driver who abducted, imprisoned and repeatedly raped three women was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without parole, plus 1,000 years, after one of his victims confronted him and said he had put her through 11 years of hell. | Video

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Kerry hopes Pakistan drone strikes to end 'very soon'

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ISLAMABAD - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Pakistanis on Thursday he hoped U.S. drone strikes in their nation would end "very, very soon," a message meant to ease anti-American resentment in the strategic country.

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Snowden will 'build a new life in Russia': lawyer

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MOSCOW - U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden will publish no more leaks but instead look to build a life in Russia where he has been granted a year-long asylum, his lawyer said on Thursday.

World, Russia 5:20pm EDT
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McCain, Biden coming together for Sedona, Arizona forum

These days Washington is not known for bipartisanship, but every now and then a breakthrough is made. It is noteworthy that Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Senator John McCain, a Republican, are appearing together at a forum in Sedona, Arizona on Friday.