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Reuters 03:07 PM | November 20,2009
Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy named as EU’s first President and Baroness Catherine Ashton, a little known Briton, as foreign affairs chief, under a deal that kept out more established figures such as Tony Blair
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AP 05:03 PM | November 19,2009
EU’s 27 leaders deadlocked over who to name as the bloc’s first full-time president and new foreign policy chief
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AFP 05:18 PM | November 16,2009
Complex negotiations towards a legally enforceable successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, which expires in 2012, would then continue to work out differences between rich nations and developing countries including China
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AFP 07:45 PM | November 11,2009
“The number of unemployed people increased by 30,000 over the quarter to reach 2.46 million”
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Reuters 05:04 PM | November 10,2009
Lloyds said it would take mitigating actions, including redeploying staff and releasing contractors and temporary employees, to limit the net reduction in permanent jobs to 2,600
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Reuters 03:14 PM | November 09,2009
Britain, the only country in Europe with more credit cards than people, has seen borrowing drop 3% in the past year as consumers cut back and banks tighten the purse strings
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AP 09:26 AM | November 09,2009
On 9 November 1989, East Germans came in droves, riding their sputtering Trabants, motorcycles and rickety bicycles. Thousands crossed over the following days
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Sumeet Desai / Reuters 05:00 PM | November 06,2009
No sign of stimulus withdrawal expected from G-20 finance ministers; meting to focus on new scheme for balancing world growth; officials to discuss coordination of eventual exit
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Greg Keller / AP 10:59 AM | November 06,2009
The upturns in many countries recorded have been largely driven by temporary factors such as industry restocking, stimulus programs
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Reuters 04:49 PM | November 03,2009
Analysts expect the ECB to start raising interest rates from a 1% record low in the fourth quarter of 2010, likely reaching 2.25% by mid-2011
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Reuters 05:49 PM | November 01,2009
France’s ecology minister Jean-Louis Borloo hopes the plan will help break the deadlock between rich and poor nations at Copenhagen summit
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Jeroen Molenaar / Bloomberg 10:24 PM | October 29,2009
Since taking the helm in January, Polman has replaced 40 of the top 100 people and Unilever will be going through another round in November, he said on Wednesday at a conference of the American Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam
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Jonathan Lynn / Reuters 06:18 PM | October 23,2009
WTO Doha talks make no progress despite intensive meetings; 2010 target for deal won’t be met at this rate
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Reuters 03:25 PM | October 23,2009
Lack of broadband Internet access deprives countries of the possibility of building up offshoring industries, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said
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Clifford J. Levy / NYT 09:03 PM | October 18,2009
Putin’s party is looking at ways to emulate the one-party system of keeping tight control while still driving growth
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AFP 05:55 PM | October 14,2009
Britain currently has around 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, the second largest deployment after the United States. There have been 221 British deaths there since the war began in 2001
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PTI 06:29 PM | October 13,2009
There is a need to assess the impact of the FTA on the social groups of the country, member of European Parliament, Lena-Kolarska Bobinska, said
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Silvia Aloisi / Reuters 08:00 PM | October 12,2009
The food price spikes caused a sharp rise in the number of hungry people around the world to more than 1 billion this year
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AFP 12:56 AM | October 10,2009
This is an increase of 417 fatal cases from a week ago when 4,108 deaths were recorded
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Wojciech Moskwa / Reuters 05:48 PM | October 09,2009
Barack Obama wins prize less than 9 months into first term; committee says he gives world hope for better future
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