Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | February 4, 2009
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US' first black AG sworn in
WASHINGTON (CMC): Eric Holder was officially sworn in yesterday as the first Caribbean-American attorney general of the United States.Holder, 58, the son of a Barbadian father, has also become the first black attorney general in the US...

British capital mops up after snowstorm cramps economy
LONDON (AP): Britain's capital cleared the soggy remnants of a paralysing snowstorm yesterday as businesses counted the multibillion-pound cost.An estimated six million people skipped work Monday when the largest snowstorm to hit London in 18 years...


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