Friday, July 11th, 2008
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Thursday told Congress that regulators should gain greater powers in oversight of financial market.
"Cooperation between the Fed and the SEC (Securities ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his deep concern Thursday over the impact of rebel activity in eastern Chad, which has thwarted access of humanitarian workers to the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes by vi ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The United Nations and Pakistan have agreed on a broad understanding on the establishment of an inquiry commission on Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Thursday.
Speaking to report ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The French government will not have new employees to succeed over 30,000 civil servants who are due to retire next year, Eric Woerth, minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service, said Thursday.
Some 30,000 to 32,0 ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The UN Security Council Thursday lifted an arms embargo on Rwanda imposed after the 1994 genocide, and dissolved the committee tasked with monitoring compliance with the sanctions.
Welcoming the entry into force of the Pact on Secur ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The parliament of the northern Belgian region of Flanders approved the Lisbon Treaty on Thursday, making Belgium the 22nd European Union (EU) member state to complete the ratification process of the EU treaty.
The Flemish parliament ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Mexican Interior Ministry declared a state of emergency in six cities of the eastern state of Veracruz on Thursday after heavy rains slashed eastern Mexico.
In a press statement, the ministry said the General Coordination for Civil ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori underwent new cancer surgery here Thursday to remove infected tissue from his tongue.
The surgery, which removed two bumps (leukoplakia) from Fujimori's tongue in the National Institute of ...
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