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Obama administration moves to limit anonymous donations

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Sony chairman credited with developing CDs dies

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Sony's president and chairman from 1982 to 1995, Ohga died Saturday in Tokyo of multiple organ failure, the company said. He was 81.

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Russia calls for stricter nuclear safety rules

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Former BEA Systems CEO back in business software

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Indian Ocean rower forced to return to Australia

Nice SYDNEY – A British woman who is attempting to cross the Indian Ocean in a rowboat has been forced to return to the Australian shore after an equipment malfunction.

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Savage left Fremantle, Western Australia, two weeks ago for the 4,000-mile (6,400-kilometer) trip across the ocean. She has already crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in her 23-foot (7-meter) rowboat. If she completes the Indian Ocean trip, she will become the first woman to row across three oceans.

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In NH, Trump takes credit for Obama birth info

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