Banks seized nearly 40,000 homes in Spain last year due to unpaid mortgages, official data showed Friday, as a sharp economic downturn and record unemployment took its toll.
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Financial weapons of mass destruction: Deutsche Bank has 55,605 billion euro in financial derivatives.
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A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.
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A letter to the Department of Homeland Security allegedly named Tsarnaev and three Pakistanis as potential jihadis worthy of U.S. investigation
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This is the last one, and then I will shut up. This report tells us that the 2012 celebrity of choice was Julia Roberts.
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Your daily dose of climate change nonsense from the Guardian. According to the US the 2012 drought was not caused by climate change, but the Guardian finds scientists who do not agree with this point of view.
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The newspaper industry’s revenue declined at its slowest pace in six years, as publishers turned to new businesses and raised more money from online subscriptions.
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The UK’s emissions of climate-warming gases surged in 2012 as cheap coal replaced gas in power stations
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This is seen as a hopeful sign that the economy is now picking up speed. Historically though patents are known to stifle economic growth by limiting the use of new technologies.
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Greece’s unemployment rate increased to 26 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, compared with 24.8 percent in the third quarter, according to data published Thursday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT)
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