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The British frigate HMS Portland heads through the Suez canal, in Ismailia, Egypt Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. A European Union flotilla will begin anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia next week, the EU's foreign policy chief said Wednesday. Six warships and three maritime reconnaissance aircraft will replace a NATO naval force that has been patrolling the region and escorting cargo ships carrying relief aid to Somalia since the end of October.
It is perhaps one of Israel’s worst nightmares that the Muslim Brotherhood would come to power in Egypt and shut down the Suez Canal. Such a notion would also apply to United States and much of the global economy seeming as not only is oil shipped...
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In this Feb. 2, 2011 file picture, traders work in the Frankfurt stock exchange , Deutsche Boerse. Stock market operator NYSE Euronext  confirms it's in "advance discussions" about a potential business combination with Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG Wednesday feb. 9, 2011. It cautioned, however, that no agreement has been reached and there could not be any assurance that an agreement would eventually be reached. The statement comes on the heels of the merger between two other rival exchanges - the London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc., which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange.
NYSE Euronext, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, and Deutsche Börse are close to proposing to merge and form the world's largest equity exchange. The deal would directly challenge competition authorities and would accelerate the wave of...
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Job seekers line up for assistance at an Economic Development Department office in Sunnyvale, Calif., Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.
US lawmakers were warned yesterday that allowing states to declare bankruptcy would upend the $2.8 trillion (£1.7 trillion) municipal bond market, making it much harder and more expensive to fund local government, and potentially destablising the...
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Demonstrators asking for political change in their country face riot policemen in Algiers Saturday Jan. 22, 2011. Riot police have broken up a march by hundreds of protesters demanding Algeria  overturn a law banning public gatherings. Some demonstrators waved Tunisian flags _ a nod to the street unrest that led Tunisia's president to flee to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14. Sign reads: Power Clear Off
RUADH�N Mac CORMAIC ALGERIA:�ALGERIA'S OPPOSITION has said it will go ahead with a planned protest on Saturday despite a ban by authorities. Hoping to build on the momentum generated by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the march's organisers -...
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Chadian army soldiers patrol the refugee camp Kou Kou Angarana some 30 kilometers from the Sudan border on Wednesday, April 19, 2006.
(AP) NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Chad's armed forces and Chadian and Sudanese rebel groups are recruiting children as young as 13 to become soldiers, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The children are recruited from camps in eastern...
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A Youngstown State Police University officer patrols the street near the location of an early morning shooting at a fraternity house just north of the Youngstown State University campus that left student Jamail E. Johnson, 25 of Youngstown dead and 11 injured Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011 in Youngstown, Ohio.
By KRIS MAHER Police said Wednesday they expected to make additional arrests in connection with a shooting early Sunday morning near Youngstown State University in Ohio that left one person dead and 11 injured, one critically. "The initial...
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Census workers take details of a Kashmiri family on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Millions of census workers fanned out across India  on Wednesday as they began a mammoth effort to document every person in the world's second most populous country over the next three weeks.
Special Correspondent Enumeration will continue in the region till February 28...
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams listens to Pope Benedict XVI (unseen) delivering his speech, during private talks at the Vatican Thursday, Nov. 23, 2006. They acknowledged there were "serious obstacles" on the path to closer ties between Catholics and Anglicans, reflecting tensions over Anglicans' blessings of same-sex unions and the ordination of women and decided to commit themselves to continuing di
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A Christmas tree is installed on Red Square with St. Basil Cathedral and Kremlin's Spassky Tower, right, in the background, in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Russia was announced as host of the 2018 tournament.
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Army soldiers stand guard, as a banner hung by Egyptian protesters reads " a report to prosecutor general: Mubarak and his family wealth 70 billion dollars" , in front of Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Around 2,000 protesters waved huge flags outside the parliament several blocks from Tahrir Square, where they moved a day earlier in the movement's first expansion out of the square. They chanted slogans demanding the dissolving of the legislature, where almost all the seats are held by the ruling party.
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Britain's Prince Charles delivers a speech on building distinctive places in a globalised world, at St James' Palace in London, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.
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