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| Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:00:00 EST Katrina boosts jobless claims |
| The effects of Hurricane Katrina are beginning to show up in economic data. First-time claims for unemployment insurance rose 71,000 in the week ending September 10, according to the Labor Department. Many of the claims were Katrina-related. For example, most of the 2,412 claims in Alabama were in the trade and services industries and were storm-related. In Texas, the state with the most claims, hurricane evacuees made the bulk of the 5,613 claims. |
| Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:00:00 EST U.N. sets weakened reform plan |
| UNITED NATIONS–The diplomats parsing words and ideas here negotiated right up to their deadline, but what they got for their feverish efforts was not a hoped-for breakthrough on reforming the frequently maligned world body but rather–as one ambassador here put it–a "watered-down document." |
| Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:00:00 EST Getting through the storm |
| After state and local officials spent the weekend preparing for its arrival, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana on August 29. U.S. News documents what the officials were doing as the storm hit and as New Orleans began to flood. |
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| Warning on extremist students |
| Extremist organisations are operating on university campuses across the country and pose a serious threat to national security, according to a new report. |
| World briefing: Sliding into civil war |
| Simon Tisdall on the declaration of war "against Shias in all of Iraq". |
| Coffee trail |
| Today we'll drink more than 70 million cups of coffee. Benjamin Joffe-Walt and Oliver Burkeman follow a bean from Ethiopia to London. |
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| Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:08:29 EDT Bush: 'We will do what it takes' |
| President Bush says the reconstruction of the devastated regions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama will "be one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen." In his national address from New Orleans, the president pledged federal funds for much of the costs of roads, schools and water systems. |
| Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:21:27 EDT Leadership vacuum stymied aid |
| As violence, death and misery gripped New Orleans and the surrounding parishes in the days after Hurricane Katrina, a leadership vacuum, bureaucratic red tape and a defensive culture paralyzed volunteers' attempts to help. Doctors who wanted to treat the sick were handed mops. Police and supplies from other states were turned away. |
| Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:58:21 EDT Parts of New Orleans set to reopen |
| Significant areas of New Orleans will be reopened to businesses starting this weekend and to residents beginning Monday, Mayor Ray Nagin said today. The announcement was part of Nagin's plan to allow some 182,000 residents to return to their homes and businesses after the storm forced them to evacuate. |
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