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Bombers target Israeli diplomats in Georgia, India
(AP)
AP - Assailants attacked Israeli diplomatic targets in India and Georgia in near-simultaneous strikes on Tuesday, wounding two people in a car bombing in New Delhi, officials said. Israel's Foreign Ministry said an attempted car bombing in Georgia was thwarted when the bomb was discovered before it went off.
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Obama's election-year budget to target rich
(Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama will propose an election-year budget on Monday that raises taxes on millionaires and seeks billions of dollars for job-creating infrastructure projects, drawing a populist battle line with his Republican opponents.
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At least your money can live like a millionaire's
(AP)
AP - Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don't. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but anybody can legally open an offshore account.
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Greece still to convince skeptical euro zone
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Greek government was under pressure on Monday to convince a skeptical euro zone that it would stick to the terms of a multi-billion-euro rescue package endorsed by lawmakers despite violent protests.
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AT&T customers surprised by 'unlimited data' limit
(AP)
AP - Mike Trang likes to use his iPhone 4 as a GPS device, helping him get around in his job. Now and then, his younger cousins get ahold of it, and play some YouTube videos and games.
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JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book
(AP)
AP - Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then.
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Obama's budget headed to Congress
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama is sending Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade through cuts in government spending and higher taxes on the wealthy. At the same time, he wants to boost spending in key areas such as transportation and education.
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Israel says bombs target embassies in India, Georgia
(Reuters)
Reuters - Bombers targeted staff at Israel's embassies in India and Georgia on Monday, the foreign ministry said, with a bomb going off in New Delhi but a second device in Tbilisi defused.
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