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The ranking, compiled by the World Economic Forum (WEF), places the UK at the top of a leader board of 55 of the world’s largest financially-focussed countries.
The US, which had previously held the top spot, slipped to third, behind second-placed...
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Cris Bouroncle/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Egyptian demonstrators burned an Algerian flag in Cairo on Friday, during a protest outside the Algerian...
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After the House of Representatives’ historic passing of a health care reform bill, the U.S. Senate now is under pressure by the White House and fellow liberals to...
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Truth can be suppressed for a while. It can be delayed. But, it can never be buried!
The ghosts of Babri masjid demolition are back to haunt top Bharatiya Janata...
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As far as I am concerned, India’s best political leader is Mahatma Gandhi. He did nothing for his family and himself. He did all the heard work to give us the...
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Before 2-3 days there was an attack on IBN lokmat and IBN 7 channel. This is shameful deed done by Shiv Sena in the country like India. We have seen that Shiv Sena and...
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One of the most disadvantages and advantage of staying in a democratic world is everybody can raise their voice. A person like Raj Thackeray openly takes on the charge...
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The Qatari government is quite an schizophrenic institution. The Emir of Qatar is one of the region’s most progressive leader who has allowed for some degree of...
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A new study shows just how much of a no-brainer it is for politicians for legalize marijuana use. The American “War on Drugs” has been futile and...
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If you needed any more proof that Israel is not only a nation with a racist framework, but with a racist culture, Israeli newspapers provide daily illustrations.
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The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain as evidence that scientific data have been...
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Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to...
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A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to continue Russia’s anti-crisis program as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet...
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President Hosni Mubarak vowed on Saturday that Egypt will be firm in dealing with attacks on its nationals, amid hot tempers and a diplomatic spat with Algeria over a...
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Alessandra Mussolini, a right-wing MP, said she was outraged and upset when she heard reports that the remains of her grandfather were being sold online.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Friday that the United States could start holding Afghanistan’s government accountable for corruption by withholding money for...
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representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)....
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“There should be no differences between black Jews and white Jews,” said Ayeli, 29, who was among 15,000 people who this week celebrated the...
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday declared that his country will not retaliate with war threats against Venezuela, his only aim being to defeat terrorism in...
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More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says.
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The effects of the credit crisis have taken our leaders so long to notice but it’s slowly and surely creeping in that the country’s economists are realizing that we...
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Our world today is wailing about the global financial crisis that is triggering downsizing and necessitating a cut in mass production – the very thing that feeds its...
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Being Third World isn’t all too pathetic. People in these deepest darkest corners of the globe are used to hardship that this global financial crisis does not cause a...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned on Tuesday that the European Union could turn into an industrial wasteland without government help for manufacturers hit hard by...
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The IMF is urging the international community not to let the current focus on the global financial crisis result in a decline in aid to the world’s most...
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It is clear from the near past happenings that the need of the hour is not just the injection of liquidity into the world economy but also in addition the injection of...
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The severe financial crisis that has gripped the United States and engulfed Europe is the most important event of the past three month period. The onset of a global...
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One should strongly disapproves the decision of the Union Cabinet to increase the ceiling for foreign capital entry into the Indian insurance sector from the existing...
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The series of financial crises in the late 1990s, such as the Asian crisis, also affected Brazil, by way of consequence. Since the crises brought about widespread...
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General Electric underlined the depth of the global financial crisis on Friday, announcing its worst quarter in five years and slashing full-year forecasts.
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