Far from undermining the euro’s credibility, the debt crisis has underscored the currency’s durability, Finland’s Europe Minister Alexander Stubb said.
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Arab states and aid groups, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain, have failed to deliver 0m in pledges they made at an emergency United Nations conference in Kuwait four months ago.
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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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AKA southern Europe is bankrupt and German firms are now moving in to buy up all the goodies at a bargain!
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There was time that the CIA controlled most of the heroine coming through Lebanon. Nobody in the US seems to be talking about that anymore, it is now all the Hezbollah doing apparently.
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Parliament should be fully involved in the monitoring of member states’ economic performance, MEPs said Thursday. MEPs want more powers over the ‘scoreboard’ of indicators used by the European Commission to assess whether imbalances exist in national economies.
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A powerful quake has shaken Iran near the border with Pakistan just a week after another tremor hit the country. The earthquake was strong enough to be felt all across the Gulf region and as far as India’s capital, New Delhi.
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The carbon market is collapsing in Europe and the cash strapped EU nations might not want to prop up this expensive scheme.
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A prominent economist said about the 2008 financial crisis: “At the root of the crisis we find the largest financial swindle in world history”, where “counterfeit” mortgages were “laundered” by the banks. The Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems — MERS — was one of the main ways the swindle was done, and the main way in which counterfeit mortgages were laundered by the banks.
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Fifty percent of the domestic honeybee population is dead, the greatest single-year loss of honeybees in the United States ever recorded. The dramatic loss of the bees is expected to affect consumers.
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