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Egypts economy prepares for austerity measures

Mursi’s government now faces the tough task of building a broad consensus as it prepares to impose austerity measures. New restrictions have already been introduced to stop people from ...

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Focus on victims in the rape capital of the world

Mugunga camp houses thousands of displaced people near Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. They have sought refuge here from the ongoing conflict in the country. Women are especially ...

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2013 Ford Fusion at a glance

2013 Ford FusionBase price: $22,495 (including destination charge)Price, model tested: $30,680, Fusion SE Powertrain: 1.6-liter, DOHC, direct-injected, inline four-cylinder turbocharged engine; ...

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Indias Singh says growth wont come with business as usual

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's prime minister struck a downbeat note on the challenges facing the economy on Thursday, dubbing a five-year plan for average growth of 8 percent ...

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Japan new finance chief criticizes BOJ reports

(1 hr 6 mins ago) Japan's new finance chief hit out at the country's under-pressure central bank, reports said Thursday, saying it was ''slow'' in tackling deflation ...

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Deseret News best of 2012 Caring for the poor changing the world

. In college, numerous futile efforts were made to line people up. And during my first year of marriage I spent considerable time and relationship capital in unsuccessful attempts to convince my ...

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Google Voice Stays Free In 2013 But VOIP Is $15 Billion Industry

Free calling within the USA and Canada is not hard to find on most cellular plans or even most landlines. But once Skype hit the stage, the world of free calling changed forever. Skype with its voice ...

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Ford To Invest Over $773 Mln Across Southeast Michigan Facilities

Quote ) Thursday said it intends to invest more than $773 million on new equipment and capacity expansions across six manufacturing facilities in southeast Michigan. The investment is part of its ...

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Inside Business Long-settled Pier 1 destined for new locale

George Cummings was serving in Vietnam when his aunt and uncle, Beulah and Elliot Adams, started construction on a building at 1555 Fulton Ave. It would become a Pier 1 store. "I think that was ...

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Rosemount Mining at UMore Park close to green light

Nearly 200 million tons of pay dirt -- high-quality gravel and sand -- lies beneath the surface in the western edge of UMore Park. Dakota Aggregates now needs the green light to go get it. A nod of ...

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Rosemount City signs off on UMore gravel mining operation

Dakota Aggregates has been given the green light to mine the western part of the UMore property in Rosemount. The city council on Tuesday, Dec. 18, unanimously approved the company's request ...

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Forex Flash New Japanese finance minister makes splash – UBS

FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - Finance Minister Aso - appointed only yesterday - wasted no time in applying further pressure on the Bank of Japan. He said the "The BoJ has been insensitive to the ...

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Global Stock Market Review

Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) or (SPX) - U.S. stock market index consisting of the 500 large-cap shares widely traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the ...

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Belgian chocolatiers create worlds largest chocolate vintage steam train

Andrew Farrugia is made up of 2,755 pounds of chocolate and took about 784 hours to complete, the Telegraph reported. The train, which is on show near the Eurostar train platform at ...

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Corporate tax returns slump 21pc in Britain despite big jump in profitability

Britain now pay less tax than they did 12 years ago despite a big jump in profitability, a new report shows.Tax campaigners say the trend is the clearest signal yet that tax avoidance has blossomed ...

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Big Companies Pay Less UK Tax Than 12 Years Ago

Big companies in Britain now pay less tax than they did 12 years ago despite a big jump in profitability, a Reuters analysis of official data shows. Tax campaigners say the trend is the clearest ...

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Alcatel CEO Europe Hurting Telecom Industry

European regulations are stifling innovation within the telecom industry and preventing its growth, Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Paris-based telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent has told ...

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Commentary Global 2013 PC DRAM market a three-horse race

With Micron Technology's merger with Elpida Memory set to complete, and second-tier players looking to turn their focus away from the PC memory market, the number of commodity DRAM makers will ...

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Commentary Trade wars dominate global solar market in 2012

For the global solar industry, 2012 has been about trade wars. The US and Europe both started anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations against the world's largest solar supply chain, China. ...

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Credit card companies raise fees

The credit card companies are not sitting on their hands, but are setting out to halt the erosion in their revenue caused by the fall in interchange fees. "Globes" has found that, in the ...

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