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Andersen broke off the talks aimed at settling charges stemming from the firm alleged destruction of documents related to its work for now-bankrupt Enron. A lawyer for the embattled accounting company notified the U.S. Justice Department that the settlement as proposed could not be accepted.We just agreed that we ;re just not there right now, Rusty Hardin, an attorney for Andersen, said late Thursday. We rejected certain proposals by the government and agreed to continue to review other proposals of the government, but we could not complete that review within the time frame the government was demanding.Hardin did say the firm was leaving the door open to future talks, b
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KYIV, Ukraine AP 鈥?Russia launched three waves of drones and missiles against the southern Ukraine port city of聽Odesa, officials said Monday, thoug
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