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Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. © Reuters 2008 WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department warned on Thursday that China's yuan currency was still "substantially undervalued" but it said Beijing was not manipulating its currency for trade gains. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1532633520080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1532633520080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 18:26:22 -0400 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush stirred up the campaign to replace him by suggesting on Thursday that Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama's pledge to talk to Iran's leader represented "the false comfort of appeasement." http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1529243420080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1529243420080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:12:37 -0400 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reopening the North American Free Trade Agreement to address concerns raised by U.S. Democratic presidential candidates could kill the three-way pact, former Mexican President Carlos Salinas said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1532250720080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1532250720080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:43:50 -0400 COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, leaving a functioning democracy there and allowing most U.S. troops to come home. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1453247320080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1453247320080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:17:33 -0400 COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 15 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, leaving a functioning democracy there and allowing most U.S. troops to come home. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1518954220080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1518954220080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:15:36 -0400 Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1446937320080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1446937320080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:03:03 -0400 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday decried his critics' calls for negotiations with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as comparable to the "appeasement" of Adolf Hitler before World War Two. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSL1550673220080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USL1550673220080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 15:12:13 -0400 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sixty nine percent of Americans see gasoline prices as a serious problem for their families but only 41 percent favor a temporary repeal of the gasoline tax as proposed by presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton, a poll released on Thursday said. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1551005720080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1551005720080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 12:05:06 -0400 NEW YORK (Reuters) - CEO compensation at the biggest U.S. corporations dropped sharply last year, reflecting in part the rough business conditions at top-tier banks and other large financial firms, a study has found. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN1448555620080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USN1448555620080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 07:08:00 -0400 May 15 (Reuters) - The following were the top stories in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSBNG26682120080515?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcCandidateFeed1&virtualBrandChannel=10101 USBNG26682120080515 vcCandidateFeed1 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:47:26 -0400