With foreign reserves diminishing fast, Pakistan is on the brink of an economic crisis that may force its new government to ask for an unpopular bailout from the International Monetary Fund requiring a sweeping overhaul of the country’s economy.
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Washington wants Spanish officials to agree to put Abu Dahdah on UN watch list
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Misadventure though it was, the agency’s Operation Acoustic Kitty was a visionary idea 50 years ahead of its time.
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A day before Europe Day (9 May), held yearly to celebrate the peace and unity in Europe, 3,500 staff of the European institutions held a strike against budgets cuts that may see their salaries cut by 60% over the next 15 years.
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Rabobank customers were unable to access their online accounts for some 15 minutes on Monday after the bank was subjected to a cyber attack.
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According to their lobbyists, the families have a rule against staff-only meetings: They won’t do them. They insist on sitting down with the senators themselves.
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Fears of civil disorder in capital as plans are revealed for partially state-funded ceremonial funeral. Meanwhile lawyers warn against pre-emptive arrests as police scan social media to identify likely protesters
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With cities cutting their police to balance budgets, some well-to-do neighborhoods are hiring private security, marking an expansion of unarmed guards beyond office parks and gated communities.
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“I want to alert the whole nation about this. They are organizing a general blackout of the country, those irresponsible people on the right,” Chavez’s designated successor said
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“….many foods have been sequenced – rice, grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, papaya, soybean and sugar beets, for starters. And often, when a crop has been mapped, genetical modification follows. Is chocolate next?..”
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