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France’s Lagarde Doubts Any Decision Next Week on Aid to Greece French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said she doubts European Union finance ministers will make any decision about a bailout of Greece when they meet in Brussels next week.

Thai Protesters Mass to Topple Abhisit, May March Through City Thai anti-government protesters aim to gather a million people in Bangkok today to pressure Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call an election, and may march throughout the capital if he rejects their demands.

Obama’s ‘No Child’ Redo Rewards Schools for Progress (Update1) Education Secretary Arne Duncan unveiled a plan that would tie $28 billion in federal school aid to President Barack Obama’s U.S. goal of having the world’s highest percentage of college graduates by 2020.

Airbus A330s Get Safety Mandate From EASA; FAA to Follow European regulators ordered airlines flying Airbus SAS A330s with Rolls-Royce Plc engines to take precautionary measures to cut the chances of ice building up in fuel systems and potentially leading to engine failure.

Iraq’s Al-Maliki Has Upper Hand in Forming Government (Update4) An alliance led by Iraq’s incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki leads in Baghdad and four other provinces, partial results from the March 7 parliamentary elections show, giving him the upper hand in trying to form a new government.

Yellen, Raskin, Diamond May Help Bernanke Exit Stimulus (Update1) President Barack Obama’s likely nomination of three Federal Reserve governors will help Chairman Ben S. Bernanke plan an exit from record monetary stimulus and strengthen banking supervision and consumer protection.

Lehman’s Hidden Leverage ‘Shenanigans’ May Haunt Fuld (Update1) Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s Richard Fuld exuded confidence as he briefed analysts on June 16, 2008, four days after demoting his firm’s finance chief in the wake of a $2.8 billion quarterly loss.

Vatican to Drop Statute of Limitations for Pedophile Priests The Vatican’s chief prosecutor will remove the statute of limitations for priests accused of child molestation and said today it was “false and calumnious” to accuse Pope Benedict XVI of a cover-up.