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Ford Ups Borrowing Plan to About $23 Billion

DETROIT – Ford Motor Co. (F) plans to raise the amount of a borrowing plan to roughly $22 billion to $23 billion from an original $18 billion, as it increases the size of a revolving credit line and a convertible note sale. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange …

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Earthquake Knocks Out Communication Systems in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Telephone lines and Internet service went dead across much of Asia on Wednesday after two powerful earthquakes damaged undersea cables used by several countries to route calls and online traffic. Repairing the cables could take weeks because crews have to pull them up and transfer them to …

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Violence Erupts as Hamas Accuses Fatah of Attack on PM Haniyeh

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Gunmen allied with Hamas and Fatah clashed at a West Bank mosque and in Gaza Strip streets on Friday, as violence spread to areas of the Palestinian territories normally untouched by factional strife. Hamas accused a Fatah leader of orchestrating the previous day’s attack on …

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