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The international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators has called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity. Speaking for the Quartet, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel's announcement of plans to build new homes in disputed East Jerusalem

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Film-maker Roman Polanski has been denied bail by Swiss authorities ahead of his possible extradition to the United States. The Oscar-winning?
Japan's embattled prime minister apologized Sunday to the people of Okinawa for ditching his campaign promise to move a U.S.
At its meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the International Monetary Fund has been working on its evolving role, in the wake of the near?'

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IMF seeks more funds

At its meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, the International Monetary Fund has been working on its evolving role, in the wake of the near global financial meltdown.

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Ireland’s Minister for European Affairs is a man with a mission. Dick Roche has to encourage Irish voters to say ‘yes’ in the upcoming second?
Marina Catena is an military officer and a humanitarian and she has just become the first woman in the Italian army to receive the French Order of?
At least 60 militants have been killed in fighting between the Taliban and a rival Islamic group, Hezb-e-Islami, in northern Afghanistan, police say.'

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IMF: IMF seeks more funds

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Russia must develop new offensive weapons to counter US missile defences and prevent policymakers in Washington from feeling they can..

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Australia has become the first major developed nation to put up the cost of borrowing since the global economic crisis struck. The central?
Australia’s Rio Tinto is to go ahead with a multibillion euro plan to extract copper and gold from one of the world’s biggest untapped deposits under?
The euro zone’s services industries returned to growth for the first time in 16 months in September. Economists said that demonstrated the?

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Banking: SocGen raises cash to repay aid

SocGen raises cash to repay aid

French bank Societe Generale is to sell 4.8 billion euros worth of new shares. The cash raised will be used to repay bailout money the bank received from the Paris government as well as to?

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Shareholders of collapsed German lender Hypo Real Estate have been protesting at a meeting called to force them to sell their stock to the German?
France Telecom has appointed a new deputy chief executive St?phane Richard. He replaces Pierre-Louis Wenes who is quitting to calm a political?
The results of Sudan's presidential election and of the vote for the leadership of the semi-autonomous south are expected to be released
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