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<title>The gangster&apos;s daughter, the Tory billionaire and what could be the biggest divorce of our times</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192556819</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Michael Spencer From his home in Zermatt, Switzerland, one-time East End hardman-turned-millionaire businessman George Walker  ...  becomes excited at the very mention of politics&apos;. &apos;He&apos;d love to have been an MP  ...  General Election and David Cameron becomes Prime Minister, Michael Spencer is certain to be offered  ...
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<title>Crisis began with Lehman&apos;s collapse, Europeans say</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192556212</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  days ago, Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, called the decision by American officials to  ...  news like the stock market plunge, the government takeover of the giant insurer American International  ...  calmed down over the summer. And while Swiss giant UBS suffered tens of billions of  ...
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<title>Oil futures slide below $80 a barrel on economic woes</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192556161</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bonds and commodities for the security of government bonds. &quot;Any time you think the risk  ...  he said. Abdullah Attiyah, the Qatari oil minister, told Al Arabiya television Friday that the  ...  an oil analyst at Petromatrix in Zug, Switzerland, said in a research note that oil  ...
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<title>Oil price drop below $78 a barrel as energy agency cuts demand forecast</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192556154</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bonds and commodities for the security of government bonds. &quot;Any time you think the risk  ...  Wittner said. Abdullah al-Attiyah, the Qatari oil minister, told Al Arabiya television Friday that OPEC  ...  an oil analyst at Petromatrix in Zug, Switzerland, said in a research note that oil  ...
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<title>Libya to use &quot;all means&quot; against Switzerland to defend citizens dignity</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192555312</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  halting of shipments of crude oil to Switzerland as a consequence of the mistreatment of  ...  the suspension of consular services to the Swiss as a natural reaction to the inability  ...  yields, otherwise, Libya will practise all the political, diplomatic and economic measures against Switzerland to  ...
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<title>Lombard: Sainsbury&apos;s mysterious disappearing stake</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192545416</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to go cap in hand to the government; key parts of business and economic policy  ...  are in the hands of the prime ministers arch-enemy and the former chairman of Marks  ...  beneficial ownership of the stake in the Swiss bank are still not clear. When markets  ...
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<title>Swiss Banks Hold On as Zurich Frets</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192541143</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  foremost it is the financial center of Switzerland that will bleed,&quot; prophecies Beat Bernet, bank  ...  manager in the world, UBS ( The Swiss have been forced once already to wave  ...  that might lead to bankruptcy. The federal government would absolutely prevent that.&quot; James Nason, spokesman  ...
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<title>Dogs of War: A big step for accountability</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192534277</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  three years&apos; work of the both the Swiss Initiative on Private Military and Security Companies  ...  other stakeholders from the private sector and non-government organizations. The document, while not legally binding,  ...  Iraq, Poland, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States. The signatories  ...
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<title>G7 meet under pressure to find common ground on crisis</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192533701</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and their peers in Britain, Canada and Switzerland even cut interest rates in an unprecedented  ...  adding to the turmoil the G7 finance ministers must address. The meeting brings together finance  ...  of confidence. &quot;What will restore confidence is government intervention which is clear, comprehensive and cooperative  ...
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<title>Long-prayed-for Mormon temple coming to Rome</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192531749</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  1 million Muslims, and an &quot;unwillingness of politicians to settle the question of Islam.&quot; When  ...  Italy, who&apos;ve had to travel to Bern, Switzerland, to perform temple sacraments, the construction will  ...  her husband had to travel to the Swiss temple to get sealed for eternity. In  ...
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<title>UN chief to attend francophone summit in Quebec City</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192528514</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Ban is to first travel to the Swiss city of Geneva next Tuesday for talks  ...  the issue over dinner with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and EU foreign policy chief  ...  speech at Havard University&apos;s Kennedy School of Government, near Boston, Massachusetts, on the theme: &quot;Securing  ...
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<title>Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192528244</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 20:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Somalia, a country where there is no government control and armed groups are rampant. &quot;It&apos;s  ...  in the Gulf of Aden.&quot; NATO defense ministers agreed Thursday to send a seven-ship force  ...  Abbot in Cairo, Frank Jordans in Geneva, Switzerland, Jennifer Quinn in London and Daniel Woolls  ...
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<title>TSX trades below 9,000 points as loonie plummets</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192519728</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that the government will buy $25 billion in mortgage-backed securities  ...  Gerry in Cambridge, Ontario No one in politics wants to accept the facts the we  ...  and is opening up for Canada, Sweden, Switzerland et al. Much as I dislike banks  ...
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<title>FIFA, UEFA make peace with Euro host Poland</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192518524</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:28 GMT</pubDate>
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... ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) _ International and European soccer authorities  ...  European soccer authorities met with the Polish government Friday, completing an agreement to restore order  ...  and UEFA will help the Polish sports ministry monitor the sport &quot;to help in the  ...
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<title>comments(74)</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192518252</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 19:28 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the situation. George from Winnipeg The Harper government does not have the ability to guide  ...  Gerry in Cambridge, Ontario No one in politics wants to accept the facts the we  ...  and is opening up for Canada, Sweden, Switzerland et al. Much as I dislike banks  ...
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