December 18, 2014

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Law:

Associate Bonus Watch: Another Firm Beats The Market!
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Associate Bonus Watch: A Potpourri Of Payment Scales
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Susman Godfrey bonuses start at $40K for associates who have been at the firm at least a year
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Law School Enrollment Continues to Slide --- Law School Got Real Unpopular Real Fast --- Law School Enrollment at Lowest Level Since 1982 --- First-Year Law School Enrollment in U.S. at 40-Year Low
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Experienced Lawyers Pity Recent Law School Graduates
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Law Firm, Chase Bank Join Forces on Trainee Program
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Know Thyself, Corporate Counsel, and Know Thy Spend
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Companies Curb Use of Outside Law Firms
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Federal Judge: Bat---- crazy law students
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A Partner You Wouldn't Want To Have
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Novel Privilege Issue Raised in Suit Against Law Firm - Whether communications between a firm's general counsel and its attorneys are privileged from clients
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The Sony Hack Teaches What Document Reviewers Knew All Along
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Here's The New Phone BlackBerry Hopes Will Save Its Dying Platform
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20 iPad Apps That Will Make Your Android Friends Jealous
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The Top 10 Skills That Got People Hired This Year, According To LinkedIn
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3 Ways to Amp Up Your Suit Game
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‘Hells Angels’ busted after Christmas toy drive with guns, brass knuckles and meth
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Google Lawyer Is Chased By Protesters
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"Witness 40": Exposing A Fraud In Ferguson
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Sued by dad over his 13-year-old daughter’s suicide after bullying, school denies responsibility
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Lawyer Charged With Shoving Chicago Bears Owner
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GOP lawmaker: Women need man’s permission for abortion unless they can prove ‘legitimate rape’
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Judges:

Two Bankruptcy Judges Reappointed
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Invitation To The Honorable Linda B. Riegle's Retirement
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Former Texas justice of the peace sentenced to death for revenge murder
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Wall Street:

US stocks : Futures rally on mild post-Fed optimism
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Stocks Have Best Day Of The Year: Here's What You Need To Know
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Banker Whose Scandalous Divorce Rocked Wall Street Resigns From Jefferies
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Layoffs:

National and State by State Unemployment Rates
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Animated Map of Unemployment
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Politics:

Jon Stewart mocks budget process: Elizabeth Warren is ‘so cute, she thinks she can change the system’
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Mass Torts:

14 arrested in connection with deadly meningitis outbreak
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Mass. pharmacy co-founder faces 25 murder counts
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Feds: Couple transferred $33M after contaminated company closed
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Meningitis patients stunned, pleased by indictments
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Television:

Broadcasters try to block Aereo asset sale, $90M tax transfer
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Broadcasters Pursue Aereo in Bankruptcy Tug-of-War
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Autos:

Bankruptcy Court Filing Seeking to Allow Defective Ignition Switch Litigation Against General Motors to Proceed
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GM Customers Demand Payment For Ignition Cover-Up Of
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Environmental:

Freedom makes deal on charges, records show
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Celebs:

Teresa Giudice's Perfect Sad Christmas Treat to Make for Your Fambly
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Retailing:

Is This RadioShack's Last Christmas?
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RadioShack Kept Alive by $25 Billion of Swaps Side Bets
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Mall retailer Deb Shops facing possible closure
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Gambling:

Caesars Receivership Case on Fast Track While Talks Continue
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Caesars: Et tu, 1st lien?
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Icahn brokers 'deal' to save Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal
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Fraud:

Another DBSI Executive Sentenced for Role in Fraud
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Bernie Madoff’s Inner Circle Exactly 18% As Culpable As He Is
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Corporate Reform:

Wall Street prepares Dodd-Frank assault
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Economy:

Consumer Prices in U.S. Decline by Most in Six Years on Fuel
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U.S. Wealth Gap Is Widest in at Least 30 Years, Study Finds
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Key Measures Show Low Inflation in November -- Inflation basically does not exist
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Yellen Makes It Clear That Fed's Patience on Rates Has Limits --- 'Considerable Time' Is Gone
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Comments on Fed Chair Yellen's Press Conference
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Fed confident in US growth outlook, opens door wider to rate hike --- Fed Threads The Needle, Will Stay 'Patient' On Rate Hikes
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Biggest Price Drop Since 2008 Lifts U.S. Consumers
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Fed to walk 'tightrope' on rates at meeting's end
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Fed Pondering Change in Rate Hike Signals
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Junk Bond Investors Facing First Global Loss in Five Years
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How Wall Street Hollows Our Economic Future
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When raising the minimum wage isn't enough
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The 10 Poorest States In America
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The 10 Biggest Corporate Disasters Of 2014
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These 5 Billionaires Lost The Most Money This Year
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US Debt Clock
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Economic Indicators Dashboard
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Real Estate:

Credit Suisse Accused of Fudging Las Vegas Resort Appraisal
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Senate approves short sale tax break
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Senate fails to pass Terrorism Risk Insurance Act
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Lenders fear weakening mortgage demand in 2015
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AIA: Architecture Billings Index shows slower expansion in November
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5 predictions for NYC real estate in 2015
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Countrywide whistleblower will receive $57 million
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Zillow: Negative Equity declines further in Q3 2014, "Down by Almost Half Since 2012 Peak"
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Municipalities:

Detroit retirees to hear more on pension cuts
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Oil/Gas:

Oil Plunge Sets Stage for Energy Defaults
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Oil stocks see 'bottom' in crude, but analysts do not
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That Oil Rally Didn't Last Long
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Falling oil prices could hurt US producers, fracking industry
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The Risk and Reward of Cheap Oil --- World market shockwaves ripple far and wide from oil price epicenter
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Oil falls below $59 as OPEC, Russia keep pumping
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US crude inventories fall by 847,000 barrels, smaller than expected draw
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U.S. Oil Prices Resume Slide Ahead of Stockpile Data
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Oil Plunge Can Trigger ‘Subprime’ Debt Crash
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A better energy deal for you than low oil prices
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Oil prices skid ahead of Fed outcome, EIA supply data
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Saudi Arabia's Oil Strategy Is About More Than Destroying Shale
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Husky Energy slashes 2015 capital budget by $1.7B
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Museums:

Evergreen Aviation museum caught off-guard by bankruptcy filing
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Aviation:

Passenger Who Got Sick Of Waiting To Get Off Plane Deploys Emergency Slide
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Student Debt:

The Most Terrifying Stat About Student Loan Debt Isn’t What You Think
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Distressed Investing:

Distressed M&A and investing
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Education:

Oldest US black college on verge of financial collapse
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Healthcare:

Judge approves sale of former Saint Catherine Medical Center
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Celebs:

Michael Vick close to paying off full $18M debt: report
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Pharma:

Bankruptcy Judge Clears Dendreon to Pursue Sale
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Religion:

Catholic church’s lawsuit against Paine Hamblen can go to trial
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Coal:

New Elk coal mine near, Trinidad, filed bankruptcy protection
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Media:

Bankruptcy Trustee Objects to Sale of Bulldog Reporter Assets
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Banking:

Arvest faces suit over acquisition of Union Bank
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
(6 new opinions today - DBN)

Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Chapter 7, 12 & 13 Private Trustee Locator
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Recent Ch. 11 Filings (19 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (67 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code - Prior BK Codes - Bankruptcy Rules
(large downloads)

UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Bankruptcy Jobs:

(1)-(2)- (3)-(4)-(5)-(6)-(7)-(8)-(9)-(10)
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Seminars - (Contact us to list your seminar)

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Bankruptcy Statistics:

Bankruptcy Filings Continue Downward Trend
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Interactive Bankruptcy Statistics Map
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Bankruptcy Reform:

The ABI Commission on Reform of Chapter 11 Issues Final Report: What Secured Creditors Need to Understand
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Subordination:

Bubble Bursts on Former Dot-Com Millionaire Debtors Seeking to Subordinate Claim of Ex-Partner
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Recent Pleadings:

Allen's Litigation Trust Sues Alvarez & Marsal: Trustee Says Firm Improperly Received $24M IN PACA Trust Funds
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Cross-Border:

Turnaround: Reflections on The Present Day Influence Of Negotiations on International Bankruptcy at the Fifth Session Of the Hague Conference On Private International Law in 1925
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U.S. Court Asserts its Authority in a Cross-Border Bankruptcy Case
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Corporate Governance:

The Cycle of Fiduciary Duties – Owner/Directors of Solvent Companies Owe Fiduciary Duties Only to Themselves
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Sovereigns:

US Court of Appeals will hear Argentine case on assets disclosure
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Argentina faces skeptical US court over holdout subpoenas
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Holdout funds, Malvinas: Mercosur presidents back Argentina
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UK:

Wage growth picks up as UK unemployment falls
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Search for tycoon's 'hidden cash'
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Wife's bid to seize dead tycoon Scot Young's fortune
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Resignation, bankruptcy cloud Orchestra London ask
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Insolvency Bulletin
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Insolvency litigation briefing - December 2014
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Pension scheme savers facing 3% charges, group warns
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Phones for Who? Sector Focus on Technology Companies
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Russians Are Flooding Out Of London's Housing Market As The Ruble Crumbles
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EU:

Europe's Deflation Struggle Intensifies
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Europe shares rally as Fed pledges patient approach to rates
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German Business Confidence Rises as Bundesbank Sees Growth
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Canada:

Bond raters note P.E.I.'s record debt
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US Steel Canada continues to burn through cash
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Russia:

Ruble rebounds on best day since 1998
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Russian ruble firms sharply as government pressures exporters
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Ruble crisis could shake Putin's grip on power --- Putin Says Shouldn't Waste Currency Reserves as Recession Looms --- Vladimir Putin's woes are about to get worse --- Ruble Slipping Again As Putin Says The Situation Is 'Not A Crisis' --- Putin: Russia's Economy Will Rebound In 2 Years At Most
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The Banks And Countries Most Exposed To Russia's Looming Debt Crisis
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Back to the lean years - Economic troubles have sucked the air out of Russia's nationalistic euphoria
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Russia's sinking economy becoming a global threat
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Russia plans new measures to stabilize the ruble
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Fears Russian crisis is spreading across global markets
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Former Federal Reserve Officer: 'Mess In Russia Adding To A Flight To Safety In The Dollar, Treasury Securities'
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The Russian billionaires burned by economic squeeze
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India:

SpiceJet rescue is no fix for aviation woes --- Parent of India's SpiceJet says there is no cash for a bail-out
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India's SpiceJet Grounded Over Its $2.2 Million Fuel Bill
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Brazil:

Creditors approve Brazil shipbuilder OSX's bankruptcy plan
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MENA:

ISIS Just Executed More Than 150 Women In Fallujah, Refused To Accept "Sexual Jihad"
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Ukraine:

EU says Ukraine needs $15 bln, has limited ability to help
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Ukraine, Pro-Russia Rebels Agree to Resume Peace Talks
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Mexico:

Mexico’s Ahmsa Reaches Exit Accord After 15 Years in Bankruptcy
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