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Specialist Glenn Carell studies his screens as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, July 8, 2010
JPMorgan Chase   Photos   Stock Exchange   US stocks   Wikipedia: JPMorgan Chase		  Independent online (SA) 
US stocks tumble again
Fri 11 Apr 2014
New York - US stocks opened sharply lower Friday, following European markets downward and retreating on a disappointing earnings report from Wall Street... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, delivers a speech during the inauguration of the annual Thessaloniki International Trade Fair Saturday Sept. 7, 2013. Labor unions are planing a series of weekend demonstrations in the country's second largest city, demanding a reversal of minimum wage cuts imposed in the bailed out country last year. His government is facing confrontation with unions over plans to begin mass firings and forced transfers of public sector workers.
Antonis Samaras   Debt   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Antonis Samaras		  Al Jazeera 
Greek officials optimistic after bond sale
Fri 11 Apr 2014
Greek officials have praised the country's return to the international debt market after four years as an overwhelming success. The bond sale on Thursday was eight times oversubscribed and the finance... (photo: AP / Nikolas Giakoumidis)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, left, and Ukrainian opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk attend a signing ceremony of the agreement in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Ukraine’s opposition leaders signed a deal Friday with the president and European mediators for early elections and a new government in hopes of ending a deadly political crisis. Russian officials immediately criticized the deal and protesters angry over police violence showed no sign of abandoning their camp in central Kiev.  BBC News  Fri 11 Apr 2014
Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk heads to east to tackle stand off
Ukraine's acting prime minister is travelling to the east of the country to try to end a stand off with pro-Russia protesters. Arseniy Yatsenyuk will visit the city of Donetsk, where activists... (photo: AP / Andrei Mosienko)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk   Photos   Politics   Ukraine   Wikipedia: Arseniy Yatsenyuk
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during her speech as part of a federal budget 2014 debate at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.  Deutsche Welle  Fri 11 Apr 2014
Greece not out of the woods as Merkel visits
Six months ago, during a visit to Berlin by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised Athens for its reform efforts, underscoring in particular the so-called... (photo: AP / Michael Sohn)
Angela Merkel   EU   Greek Austerity   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek government-debt crisis countermeasures
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2008 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, talks to Elvira Nabiulina during a meeting of the Council on Foreign Investments in Moscow. Putin on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 nominated a longtime aide, Elvira Nabiullina, to run the Central Bank, making her the first woman to take charge of the country's monetary policy. The Himalayan Fri 11 Apr 2014
U.S. accuses Russia after Putin warning on gas supplies to Europe
Added At: 2014-04-11 7:44 AM Last Updated At: 2014-04-11 7:44 AM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The headlines has been added... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
Europe   Photos   Russia   US   Wikipedia: Vladimir Putin
Demonstrators carry Russian flags in support of pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine, in Simferopol, Crimea, Thursday, April 10, 2014. BBC News Fri 11 Apr 2014
US: Russia uses energy supplies 'to control Ukraine'
The US has accused Russia of using its energy supplies "as a tool of coercion" to try to control Ukraine. It comes after Russia warned European countries of... (photo: AP / Max Vetrov)
Crimea Referendum   Photos   Russia Scanctions   Ukraine Crisis   Wikipedia: Crimean status referendum, 2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview with John Daniszewski, the Associated Press's Senior Managing Editor for International News during an AP interview at Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. The Telegraph India Fri 11 Apr 2014
Putin warns Europe about Kiev gas debt Putin: Explicit threat Moscow, April 10 (Reuters): President ...
Moscow, April 10 (Reuters): President Vladimir Putin warned European leaders today that Russia would cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine if it did not pay its bills and... (photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Debt   Europe   Photos   Putin   Wikipedia: Vladimir Putin
German Chancellor and chairwoman of the German Christian Democratic party (CDU), Angela Merkel, gestures during her speech during the last stage of the election campaign in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Slogan in the background reads 'For Germany'. German general elections are scheduled for Sept. 22, 2013. The Irish Times Fri 11 Apr 2014
Honeymoon over for Angela Merkel as bickering begins within grand coalition
Angela Merkel passed another milestone yesterday, overtaking Helmut Schmidt to become postwar Germany’s third-longest serving chancellor. After 3,063 days in office,... (photo: AP / Michael Sohn)
Germany   Merkel   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Angela Merkel
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and newly appointed International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach Stuff Thu 10 Apr 2014
Russia sends Europe warning over Ukraine gas
President Vladimir Putin warned European leaders on Thursday Russia would cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine if it did not pay its bills and said this could lead to a... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
Europe   Photos   Russia   Ukraine   Wikipedia: Vladimir Putin
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walk through the Russian Ambassador's house in Paris, France, on March 30, 2014, before a meeting focused on Ukraine. BBC News Thu 10 Apr 2014
US and Russia urge peaceful solution to Ukraine crisis
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart have agreed on the need to resolve the security situation in eastern Ukraine peacefully, officials say. It... (photo: US DoS)
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Russian solders prepare to move a Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station not far from Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Cold War paradigm well suited to Crimea Asia Times
A truck with men sitting on top of it, which is part of a convoy of over 100 vehicles of Muslims fleeing Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, turns around after MISCA troops, the African Union’s peacekeeping force currently being deployed in the Central African Republic, deemed the road out was not secure. CAR strife tops summit agenda Independent online (SA)
Celebrity
Actor--and now painter--Sir Anthony Hopkins talks about his latest art project, works of ink on photographic paper, at Luciane Antiques and Fine Art Gallery in San Antonio Hopkins not bothered by controversy Belfast Telegraph
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Pro-European Union activists shout slogans during a rally outside the office of the richest man of Ukraine Rinat Akhmetov during an anti-government protest in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych both pledged Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 to boost economic and trade ties to expand the "strategic partnership" between the two neighbors. EU working to defuse Ukraine crisis Belfast Telegraph
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Energy
Engineers of the FGSZ Ltd, Hungary's natural gas transporting company, turn a valve of a gas pipeline forwarding natural gas from underground storage facilities to the country's capital at a gas receiving station in Vecses (27 kilometers, or about 16 miles east of Budapest), Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 14. 2009. However Russia opened the flow of natural gas to Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukraine's gas company Naftogaz did not deliver the gas to Europe, saying Russia's Gazprom demanded to use a route that was technically arduous and would force it to halt supplies to a large swath of its own territory. The politically charged gas dispute has dramatically lowered supplies to Europe and angered the European Un Moscow calls on Ukraine to pay down its gas debt Philadelphia Daily News
In this May 11, 2012 file photo, people stand in the lobby of JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York. JPMorgan to Sell Physical Commodities Unit for $3.5 Billion Swissinfo
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