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Olympics host faces £7m loss in Iceland
THE main 2012 Olympics host authority has become the latest London borough to face losing millions of taxpayers' money in the Icelandic bank collapse. | Newham council in... (photo: GFDL / Aconcagua) London Evening Standard
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British banks set for rescue deal
| Britain's government plans to invest up to £37bn ($64bn) of taxpayers' money into three British banks hit hard by the global credit crisis, a statement from ... (photo: Creative Commons / Bdesham) Al Jazeera
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Sitzungspause: Merkel mit ihren Kollegen Brown, Fillon und Gusenbauer

$543B plan: Germany readies bank rescue package
Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | FINANCIAL TURMOILGermany: Britain: Markets today: Pros' thoughts: Banks: | Short ... (photo: REGIERUNGonline / Steins) USA Today
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Financial crisis will not hit Malta directly – Tonio Borg
“All indications show that the financial crisis which has hit the international economy will not affect us directly,” said Deputy Leader of the Nationalist Party, Tonio B... (photo: Public Domain / ) Independent Online
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A Russian soldier, foreground and EU observer seen at the Georgian village of Karaleti, some 90 km (56 miles) west of Tbilisi, as Russian troops pull back on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. Russian forces pulled back Wednesday from positions outside South Ossetia, bulldozing a camp at a key checkpoint and withdrawing into the separatist region as European Union monitors and relieved Georgian residents look

Europeans mull restart of Russia partnership talks
| LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations will this week study whether to restart stalled negotiations with Russia on a broad partnership pact after Moscow pulled its troops ... (photo: AP / Sergey Ponomarev) The Boston Globe
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Philips core profit down, to slow share buyback
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch company <PHG.AS><PHG.N> posted a 71 percent fall in third-quarter core profit as a charge for asbestos claims and restructuring ... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) The Boston Globe
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British government unveils Â£37bn banking bail-out plan
â€¢ Government to take controlling stake in RBS | â€¢ Bank's chief Sir Fred Goodwin stepping down | â€¢ Barclays could yet ask for Â£6.5bn cash | The UK government confir... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant) The Guardian
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (left) and Minister of Defense Gediminas Kirkilas from Lithuania participate in a press availability while in Vilnius, Lithuania, Oct. 23, 2005. Rumsfeld traveled to Lithuania to attend the NATO-Ukraine High-level Consul

Conservatives ahead in Lithuania election
| The vote, which came as the Baltic country's economy slumps after years of spectacular growth, appeared to spell the end for Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas' centrist... (photo: U.S. Air Force ) The Press Democrat
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Oil rebounds in Asia on Europe bank rescue plan
| SINGAPORE—Oil prices rebounded from a 13-month low to rise above US$80 a barrel Monday in Asia on expectations that a pledge by European countries to keep banks f... (photo: WN / Denise Yong) The Boston Globe
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Gold up 1.3 pc as dollar falls, eyes Europe plan
| Text: SYDNEY: Gold prices rose more than 1 per cent on Monday, edging up from Friday's deep dive as the dollar eas... (photo: Public Domain / hanneorla) The Times of India
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Rescue package for EU banks
| This is a transcript from AM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 08:00 on ABC Local Radio. | You can also listen to the story in and and formats. | Rescue pac... (photo: WN/Marzena Bozek) Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Need for a new development paradigm
| By Shahid Javed Burki | There was a belief that I shared that the developing countries would be spared the devastation caused by the recent and unrelenting meltdown in ... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan) Dawn
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World 'to fail' on nature target
| The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, according to experts questioned by BBC News. | Nearly 200 countries ... (photo: AP) BBC News
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In this July 4, 2008 file photo, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is seen with her husband waiting for Ingrid Betancourt's arrival at Villacoublay air base, outside Paris. The title of her new album _ her third _ is revealing: "Comme si de rien n'etait" (As If Nothing Had Happened). It comes out in numerous European countries July 11, sandwiched between the G-8 summit in Japan and a July 13 summit of world leaders in Paris.

Europe guarantees future bank debts
| PARIS: European leaders agreed yesterday on a plan to jointly confront the banking crisis by recapitalising banks and guaranteeing future bank debts, French President N... (photo: AP / Michel Euler, file) Gulf Daily News
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A pedestrian walks by an electronic stock board outside a securities' firm in Tokyo Monday, July 7, 2008. Japan shares rebounded Monday from a 12-session slide, with the key stock index snapping its longest losing streak in more than a half-century. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 122.15 points, or 0.9 percent, to 13,

Markets rally after crisis talks
| Asian markets have reacted positively to efforts by world leaders to end the recent financial turmoil. | Sydney's benchmark index leapt 5.6% in early trading, and South... (photo: AP / Koji Sasahara) BBC News
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Greece tops Aussie tourism list
Oct 13, 2008 11:48 AM | Greece has been given the nod as the top place to visit for Australians in 2009. Flight Centre listed Greece at number One in its ann... (photo: WN/Marzena Bozek) TVNZ
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A Turkish woman waves a national flag during a pro-secular rally in Manisa, western Turkey, Saturday, May 5, 2007. Thousands of Turks gathered in two western cities to protest the Islamic-rooted government, calling for Turkey´s secular system to be

First woman on banknote 'snub' to secular Turkey
| Turkey's central bank has been criticised by secularists for choosing a previously obscure Ottoman writer as the first woman to adorn the country's bank notes. | Critic... (photo: AP /Ismail Sahin) The Guardian
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President Bush, left, looks on as former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, his choice to replace outgoing World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 30,

US surrenders power to appoint World Bank president
| The US is to lose its power to appoint the president of the World Bank after the UK's development secretary, Douglas Alexander, brokered a deal to throw open the post t... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak) The Guardian
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An unidentified Saudi man watches market trading Wednesday, Nov.15, 2006, at al-Rajhi trading company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Earlier this week, the governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency ruled out any policy changes to try to prop up the country

Spain´s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero pauses while making a statement on the Basque separatist group ETA´s decision to break their cease-fire, at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid Tuesday June 5, 2007. ETA said in a statement sent to

Spain's PM says to inject bank capital if needed
| Text: MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the government has no immediate plans to in... (photo: AP /Paul White) The Times of India
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