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Wednesday, October 05, 2011 (2011x198)

: 05, 2011

2011/10/05 Headlines: Occupy Wall Street Protesters File Class Action Suit; Unions, Students to Join March; Lawsuit Accuses Banks of Defrauding Veterans, Taxpayers; Obama Invokes Reagan in Push for Tax Changes; Study: Corporations Laid Off Workers Following Tax Holiday; DNA Evidence Frees Texas Prisoner After Nearly 25 Years; Russia, China Veto Security Council Measure on Syria Crackdown; Iraq: No Immunity for U.S. Troops; Palestinians Protest U.S. Aid Freeze; Bahrain Sentences 26 Protesters; Saudi Arabia Blames "Foreign Country" for Clashes; HRW: No Improvement in Accountability for Colombia Union Killings; Greeks Stage General Strike over Austerity Cuts; Obama Waives Curbs on Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers; Christie Opts Out of GOP Race; Michigan Ordered to Halt Cutoff of Welfare Recipients; Rumsfeld Refuses to Answer Al Jazeera Reporter on Iraq War