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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced Monday a huge financial rescue plan that will provide as much as 500 billion euros in loan guarantees and capital to bolster the banking system.
"We are taking measures in order to prevent a repeat of what we
World | October 13, 2008, Monday // 00:00
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A protest rally against the Montenegrin decision to recognize Kosovo's independence is staged downtown Podgorica on Monday.
The opposition SNP, NS, the Serb List and the Democratic Serb Party (DSS) are the organizers of the protest.
World | October 13, 2008, Monday // 00:00
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A new poll, 22 days before the US presidential elections, shows that Democrat Barack Obama is still ahead of Republican candidate John McCain.
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North Korea has welcomed its removal from the US list of terrorism sponsors and said it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons complex.
Pyongyang said it would cooperate on the "verification of objects of the disablement of nuclear facilities," as lo
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The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has been elected member of the Duma of Russia's Chukotka Autonoumous Region with a near absolute support ITAR-TASS reported Monday.
World | October 13, 2008, Monday // 00:00
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The cause of the Saturday accident that killed Austrian far-right politician and Governor of the Carinthia province Joerg Haider was speed twice above the speed limit, leading world information agencies reported Sunday, citing Austrian court officials.
World | October 12, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
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A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and one Russian on board lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station.
World | October 12, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
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Several US Republican leaders expressed Saturday their crowing worries that Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was heading for defeat, according to a New York Times article.
Party leaders said in interviews, one after another, that while they
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The Eurozone leaders of the 15 European countries using the EUR currency are holding a summit Sunday afternoon in Paris in an attempt to find a common approach to the financial crisis .
The session follows a meeting in Washington Saturday bringing togeth
World | October 12, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
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The G-20 group of nations requests the inclusion of its biggest members in the G-7 in order for leading world economies to be able to react more successfully to the global financial crisis, according to Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega.
Mantega p
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) endorses the plan of action adopted Friday by the G-7 to protect the financial system and their commitment to do everything possible to jumpstart the world's economies.
The IMF issued a statement Saturday that the ec
World | October 12, 2008, Sunday // 00:00
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The leader of right-wing Alliance for Austria's Future party, Joerg Haider, was killed in a road accident, BBC reported Saturday.
World | October 11, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
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The US Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska's governor and violated state ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator's report concluded, cited by CNN.
World | October 11, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
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The G7 nations announced they have issued a five-point plan of "decisive action" to unfreeze credit markets, after a meeting in Washington on Friday, BBC reported.
World | October 11, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
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US President George W Bush promised the American people Friday that the U.S.
World | October 10, 2008, Friday // 00:00
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Former Finish President and peace negotiator Martti Ahtisaari is the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, as announced Friday by the Nobel Foundation in Norway's capital, Oslo.
World | October 10, 2008, Friday // 00:00
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Montenegro has made a decision to recognize Kosovo independence under pressure, according to Serbia's Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic.
The government in Podgorica obviously made its decision under pressure, Dacic said as cited by the B92 news
World | October 10, 2008, Friday // 00:00
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Montenegro and Macedonia have recognized Kosovo's independence, drawing condemnation from neighboring Serbia, which expelled Montenegro's ambassador.
Serbia said Montenegro's recognition of Kosovo jeopardized regional stability and could provoke tension
World | October 10, 2008, Friday // 00:00
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko set a December 7 date for an early parliamentary election on Thursday after dissolving the parliament over a failure by lawmakers to form a new ruling coalition.
Yushchenko has blamed the collapse of the "orange coal
World | October 9, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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The French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio has won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature, for his adventure novels, essays and children books, as announced Thursday by the Swedish Academy.
The award includes a USD 1.
World | October 9, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
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As new polls give Barack Obama a double-digit lead in the US presidential race, Republican John McCain sought to cast doubt about the democrat's background and characterize him as a terrorist sympathizer.
Meanwhile, Obama accused the McCain campaign of t
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