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reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson A street sign for Wall Street hangs in front of the New York Stock Exchange May 8, 2013. Some industry lobbyists are even stepping up their lobbying on the so-called fiduciary rule. The traditional brokerage industry would like there to be room for industry practices like selling brokerage-branded funds that can be more expensive than alternatives.

uk.reuters.com — SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN | Thu May 23, 2013 2:47pm BST SAN FRANCISCO/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of Europe's poorest country, former company executives and Irish officials have said.

reuters.com — Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on executions, said that unmanned robotic weapons systems with varying degrees of autonomy and deadliness were being tested or used by the United States, Britain and Israel without debate on moraI and legal issues.

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking Hundreds of job seekers wait in line with their resumes to talk to recruiters (R) at the Colorado Hospital Association health care career fair in Denver April 9, 2013. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday, pushing back below the 350,000 mark that economists normally associate with a firming job market.

uk.reuters.com — LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street.

uk.reuters.com — STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically neat suburb of colourful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment buildings.

preview.reuters.com — NEW YORK - In the annals of Hollywood, Wall Street has not been treated very kindly. From "Wall Street" to "Boiler Room", "Trading Places" to "American Psycho", the halls of finance are usually portrayed as places of shiny excesses and dark hearts.

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Stefan Wermuth 1 of 12. A police forensics officer investigates a crime scene where one man was killed in Woolwich, southeast London May 22, 2013. A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after the killing showed a man with hands covered in blood, brandishing a bloodied meat cleaver and a knife.

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Stringer Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim delivers his speech during a rally in protest of the Sunday's election results at a stadium in Kelana Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur May 8, 2013. Police also raided the offices of opposition newspapers and seized thousands of copies of their publications, according to online media reports.

reuters.com — Banks must not provide cross-border loan services to firms that have not been registered with the foreign-exchange authority but are operating in the special economic zones, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said in a statement on its website.

reuters.com — The Brauer-Bund beer association is worried that fracking for shale gas, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure into the ground, could pollute water used for brewing and break a 500-year-old industry rule on water purity.

reuters.com — Premier Li Keqiang has rejected an urbanization proposal drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), seeking changes to put more emphasis on economic reform, according to the sources, who are familiar with the matter. Many local authorities have already lobbied to get funding for projects, ringing alarm bells among top leaders in Beijing.

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Giampiero Sposito People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wipes his forehead as he attends the Upper house of the parliament in Rome, April 30, 2013. The letters against Ilda Boccassini have become more frequent since she requested a six-year jail sentence and a lifetime ban on holding public office for Berlusconi, Edmondo Bruti Liberati said.

mobile.reuters.com — PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it hoped an initiative could be agreed by the end of June to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the EU's list of terrorist organizations on grounds the group is importing Syria's war into Lebanon.

reuters.com — Credit: Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader The Ford logo is pictured on the rooftop of Austria's Ford head branch in Vienna March 19, 2013. Ford plans to close its engine plant in Geelong and its assembly plant in Broadmeadows, both in the state of Victoria, by 2016, News Ltd reported.