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| Eurozone approves bailout for Greece |
Eurozone finance ministers have reached an agreement on a second bailout for Greece worth 130 billion euros (172 billion dollars), diplomats in Brussels said early Tuesday after more than 12 hours of negotiations.
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After more than 12 hours of talks, the countries that use to euro reached an agreement early Tuesday to hand Greece 130 billion euros ($170 billion) in extra bailout loans to save it from a potentially disastrous default next month, an European Union diplomat said.
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| 60 dead as cold snap grips Italy |
One of the harshest winters in decades continued to grip Italy on Saturday, bringing the toll to at least 60.
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| S&P downgrades 34 Italian banks |
Rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded 34 Italian banks on Friday, including heavyweights UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo , citing a reduced ability .... |
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Obama joins Mick Jagger to belt out bluesThe President just couldn’t say no. Mick Jagger held out a microphone almost by way of command, and soon Barack Obama was belting out the blues with the best of them.
The East Room of the White House was transformed into an intimate blues club on Tuesday night for a concert featuring blues all-stars of the past, present .... |
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Dead woman married twice in ChinaInvestigators in China's Hebei province are shocked after coming across a bizarre incident in which a woman's corpse was married twice.
During this year's Spring Festival, a family surnamed Wu sold their daughter's dead body for 35,000 yuan ($5,557) to a man surnamed Liu who wanted to perform a " yin marriage" -- a marri .... |
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Musharraf denies his involvement in Bhutto' s assassinationFormer military ruler Pervez Musharraf has denied allegations about his involvement in the assassination of ex-premier
Benazir Bhutto, saying President Asif Ali Zardari knows who killed her.Reacting to remarks made by Interior Minister Rehman Malik yesterday during a briefing on the assassination in the Sindh.
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Australian foreign minister rseignsAustralian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd Wednesday resigned, saying he no longer had the support of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
He announced his resignation at a press conference in Washington.
"I cannot continue to serve as foreign minister if I do not have the prime minister’s support," The Age newspaper's website q .... |
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Hitler had son with French teenAdolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, The Telegraph reported Friday.
Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but went on to fight Nazi forces during the Second World War.
His extraordinary story has now been backed up by a range o .... |
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Iran condemns Bangkok blastsIran Wednesday condemned the three blasts in Bangkok in which five people were injured, including an Iranian who lost both his legs after a bomb he lobbed bounced back from a tree and exploded near him.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast rejected the accusations levelled at Iran by Israel and denied any lin .... |
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Afghans boils over Koran desecrationAbout 2,000 Afghans protested outside the main US military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday over a report that foreign soldiers improperly disposed of copies of the Koran. US helicopters fired flares to try to break up as many as 2,000 demonstrators who massed outside several gates to the base, chanting anti-foreigner slogans .... |
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Russia may set up defence research agencyThe Russian government will submit a proposal to the parliament on the establishment of an advanced military research agency, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has said.
The new government body will be similar in its purpose to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US.
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