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Top conservatives to meet on rebuilding Republican party
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Senior Republicans are planning to meet at a rural retreat in Virginia within days of the election to discuss how to rebuild a party they expect to be badly beaten in the White House and congressional races... |
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Bank under fire over handling of downturn
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The Bank of England failed to respond to warning signs of a looming recession and had been wrong to delay cutting interest rates until too late to stop growth contracting and unemployment rising sharply, a member of the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC) said last night... |
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Underwater traces of city at Alexandria emerge
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It existed at least seven centuries before Alexander the Great arrived. The legendary city of Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great as he swept through Egypt in his quest to conquer the known world... |
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Funds lose £24bn as VW shares take off
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Hedge funds have lost as much as Euro30bn (£24bn) short selling carmaker Volkswagen after the shares soared on the revelation that rival Porsche had secured 74pc of the equity and planned to seize control of its rival... |
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U$ considers Taliban talks
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Pakistani and Afghan leaders have agreed to seek peace talks with the Taliban in a bid to end insurgent violence on the frontline of the United States-led "war on terror"... |
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Obama Death Threats
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PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Barack Obama has been the target of more than 500 death threats during the US election campaign, it was revealed yesterday... |
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Fury over BP's 'obscene' £6.4bn profits as chief executive admits it's down to record pump prices
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BP faces renewed calls for a windfall tax and a cut in pump prices after posting 'obscene' profits of GBP70million a day... |
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Brown appeals for billions for IMF from China and Gulf
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The Prime Minister appealed to China and the Gulf states yesterday to pour hundreds of billions of pounds into the International Monetary Fund, as he warned that the organisation's $250bn (GBP160bn) reserves "may not be enough" to bail out countries hit by the global economic crisis... |
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Britain has devastated our economy, Iceland complains
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An Icelandic minister launched an extraordinary diplomatic attack on the British Government as she issued a direct plea to MPs to help rebuild shattered relations between the two countries... |
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Iraq condemns US raid on Syrian village
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The Iraqi government has unexpectedly denounced a CIA raid on a compound in a Syrian border village that killed an al-Qa'ida commander who dispatched fighters into Iraq... |
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World is facing a natural resources crisis worse than financial crunch
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The world is heading for an "ecological credit crunch" far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today... |
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UK Repossessions jump 71% to 3,700 a month
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Repossessions soared by 71% in the three months to the end of June as increasing numbers of homeowners struggled to meet their monthly mortgage repayments... |
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North Korea threatens to reduce South to debris
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North Korea's military threatened on Tuesday to use everything in its arsenal to reduce South Korea to rubble unless Seoul stops civic groups from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the communist state... |
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