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City approves EDGE tax credit for Cummins

As Cummins Inc. continues to spend money on the Seymour Engine Plant, metropolis officers have agreed to help these efforts. Throughout a Seymour Metropolis Council assembly Monday night time, members…

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Anti-government demonstrations gripped several countries in the Middle East in early 2011, and protests in Libya followed those in Egypt, Tunisia, and Bahrain. The crackdown by the government in Libya, however, was the most vicious. The protesters took to the streets on Feb. 16 in Benghazi, the

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Konaté kept his word in the June 2010 race. The first round of the election was inconclusive, and former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo faced opposition leader Alpha Condé in the run-off vote. Condé, a professor and opposition leader who has spent much of his life in exile in France, prevailed

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