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WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama will sign into law Monday legislation giving tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed veterans.
The bill passed Congress last week with rare bipartisan support. But the brief moment of unity is being overshadowed by the apparent failure of lawmakers from both parties to reach an agreement on $1.2 trillion in savings ahead of a Wednesday deadline for the special deficit-reduction supercommittee.
The legislation Obama is set to sign creates tax breaks for companies that hire jobless veterans and helps vets get job training and counseling. It also repeals a 2006 law that would require the federal, state and local governments to withhold 3 percent of their payments to contractors.
The veterans' legislation is the first proposal included in Obama's $447 billion bill to win congressional approval.
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SINGAPORE (AP) ? Oil prices hovered below $98 a barrel Monday in Asia after a Chinese leader said a long global recession is certain.
Benchmark crude for December delivery was up 10 cents at $97.51 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.41 to settle at $97.41 in New York on Friday.
Brent crude for January delivery was up 12 cents at $107.68 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange in London.
Chinese state media reported Vice Chairman Wang Qishan, who oversees trade and finance, said this weekend the global economic situation is "extremely serious" and his country would focus on domestic challenges.
Singapore said Monday that it expects its economy to grow as little as 1 percent next year, down from a 5 percent expansion this year.
Crude has jumped from $75 on Oct. 4 on signs the U.S. will avoid a recession this year. However, oil pulled back from a near four-month high above $103 last week as traders mulled whether a weak global economy justified further gains.
"Oil values will continue to be jostled by broad based global economic crosscurrents but with primary focus on the euro zone probably through the rest of this year and beyond," energy consultant Ritterbusch and Associates said in a report. "However, U.S. economic guidance remains positive and emerging markets still appear robust."
The International Monetary Fund in September forecast 4 percent global economic growth next year.
In other Nymex trading, heating oil rose 1.3 cents to $3.05 per gallon and gasoline futures added 1.1 cents to $2.50 per gallon. Natural gas gained 0.3 cent at $3.32 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich arrived in the United Kingdom with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus going on sale there Nov. 17. Verizon says the Android system will arrive in the US before the end of the year.
The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first phone running?Android Ice Cream Sandwich, went on sale today in the U.K., but U.S. consumers are still out in the cold.
Skip to next paragraphVerizon Wireless announced back in October that the Galaxy Nexus would?launch before the end of the year?in the U.S., and the Android faithful are tired of waiting. We almost certainly believe a U.S. launch is imminent because Verizon and Samsung will want to capitalize on holiday sales. Verizon did not immediately respond with a request for comment about the launch date.
The phone is notable because it?s the first smartphone to run Android 4.0, and for its massive 4.65-inch screen with 1280-by-720 resolution that is capable of 720p HD video playback. The Verizon Wireless version of the phone will also offer Verizon?s blazing 4G LTE data speeds, which only sweeten the already tasty deal.
As far as specs, the Galaxy Nexus is top of the line for Android in almost all categories. It includes a 1.2-GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. It has NFC abilities for mobile payments, a proximity sensor and a barometer. The Ice Cream Sandwich software running on the Galaxy Nexus ups the power of Android with a revamped interface, features like facial recognition, and touch-only buttons in place of normal physical buttons under the screen.
On Verizon, the Galaxy Nexus will compete with the?Motorola Droid Razr, another great Android phone, and the incredibly popular iPhone 4S. But those wanting top of the line power, 4G data speeds and the latest greatest Android experience, will most likely gravitate to the Galaxy Nexus.
In the U.K., the phone is available exclusively from retailer?Phones 4U, which is selling the handset for free with a ?36 ($57) per month plan that goes with two-year agreement. The phone will run on the Vodafone and Orange carriers.
Google has also released a hip new commercial touting the Galaxy Nexus and some of Ice Cream Sandwich?s new features. Check it out below:
See also:?Ford lifts the curtain on five-seater Connect Electric station?wagon?
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Sandie Johns, left, newly elected Moffat County School Board president, hugs former president Jo Ann Baxter during an organizational meeting Friday in the district administration building?s board room. Baxter, who is term-limited, served on the board eight years.
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CAIRO (Reuters) ? At least one person was killed and more than 650 wounded in clashes between riot police and protesters in Cairo's Tahrir square on Saturday, official said, after a protest demanding the ruling military transfer power swiftly to a civilian government.
Protests also erupted in other cities, including Alexandria and Suez, witnesses said.
Egypt holds its first parliamentary election, from November 28, since president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising in February and parties and the ruling military are jostling for position.
Police pulled down the tents of about 100 protesters who had camped in the square overnight after a demonstration on Friday of about 50,000 people, mostly Islamists, against the military leadership.
That prompted around 5,000 protesters to return to the square and clashes erupted. Police fired rubber bullets and buildings and two cars in the square were set on fire, witnesses said. A third vehicle, close to the Arab League's headquarters, was also on fire.
"The people want to topple the regime!" hundreds of youths chanted as they rushed toward a line of police.
State news agency MENA cited the health ministry's spokesman as saying 676 people had been hurt and Ahmed Mahmoud, a 23-year-old demonstrator, died in hospital after being shot.
Riot police, who used tear gas to clear the area in the early evening, later fired more tear gas at protesters who had regained control of the square, witnesses said. Police beat protesters with batons while protesters broke off chunks of cement from sidewalks to throw at the police.
"We are fighting them non-stop," shouted one protester.
Egyptian state television said Prime Minister Essam Sharaf called on protesters in Tahrir to clear the square.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said it "denounced the break-up of the Tahrir sit-in by force. (This is) reminiscent of the practices of the defunct regime's Interior Ministry."
The April 6th Youth Movement said it opposed the use of force against peaceful protesters and demanded the interior minister quit.
The demonstrators denounced Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's ruling military council, while some criticised the Muslim Brotherhood, whom they accused of working to further their own political ends.
"We are not political parties and we hate the Brotherhood who gave up on the revolution and the people," Medhat Fawzy said. "We are Egyptian youth," he added, flashing victory signs and chanting "down down Tantawi."
In the northern port city of Alexandria demonstrators chanted against the military council: "This is their understanding of change, they beat our brothers in Tahrir!"
In the eastern city of Suez, protesters tore down banners of members of Mubarak's disbanded National Democratic Party who are running in the election.
"TROUBLEMAKERS"
State television said 40 of the wounded were police officers and said "18 troublemakers" had been arrested.
Friday's rally appeared to be the biggest Islamist challenge to military rule since the largely secular uprising that toppled Mubarak. The demonstration was mostly comprised of Brotherhood members and their harder-line Salafi rivals.
Protesters expressed anger at a draft constitution that Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Silmi showed to political groups earlier this month which would give the army exclusive authority over its internal affairs and budget.
The election could be disrupted if parties and the government fail to resolve the row over the draft constitution that had denied parliamentary oversight of the army, potentially allowing it to defy an elected government.
As clashes raged in Tahrir square, al-Silmi and the Brotherhood appeared to be negotiating, through press statements and the state news agency, on percentages of members of parliament (MPs) needed to approve the assembly that will write the constitution.
MENA reported that al-Silmi had amended some clauses of the constitutional proposal, including one to say Egypt is a "democratic state" instead of "democratic civil state," a move likely to anger liberals who fear that a parliamentary majority could seek to turn Egypt into an Islamic state.
Al-Silmi said the committee chosen to write the constitution would not be confined to the larger groups in parliament to ensure "a constitution that reflects national consensus and receives the consent of all segments of society."
Political analyst Ezzedine Fishere said he did not expect the amendments to appease Islamist groups.
"(Islamists) see that they will get a majority in parliament and hence want total freedom in choosing the constitutional committee and writing the constitution," he said.
Analysts say Islamists could win 40 percent of parliament seats, with a big portion going to the Brotherhood.
"What is happening now is a showdown between the two factions ... an on-the-ground confrontation with each party trying to enforce its will, the military council from one end and the Islamist currents from the other," Fishere said.
MENA reported that al-Silmi had amended the constitutional proposal to say members of the constituent assembly writing the constitution would be chosen by a "majority" of elected MPs instead of his earlier announcement that they would be chosen by a "two-thirds majority."
(Reporting by Shaimaa Fayed, Marwa Awad, Omar Fahmy, Patrick Werr, Tamim Elyan and Abdel Rahman Youssef; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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