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Britain investigates banks for interest-rate fixing
LONDON — More global banks are being investigated for the alleged financial market manipulation that led to fines of $453 million against Barclays Bank, British Treasury chief George Osborne said T...
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Syria violence escalates as US seeks turning point
BEIRUT — Gunmen attacked a pro-government TV station Wednesday near the Syrian capital, killing seven employees in the latest barrage of violence as world powers prepared for a high-level meeting t...
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Merkel hopes EU adopts growth package
PARIS — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel says she hopes European leaders adopt a $162 billion stimulus package this week, in a gesture to French President Francois Hollande despite their differen...
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Associated Press Britain's Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness watched by First Minister Peter Robinson, center, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday.
Queen, ex-IRA chief plan symbolic Belfast meeting
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Queen Elizabeth II and a former Irish Republican Army commander are about to meet for the first time in a symbolic milestone for Northern Ireland’s peace process, but jo...
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Is Britain ready to lose the House of Lords?
LONDON — Britain’s government says it’s time to force through long proposed attempts to reform the 700-year-old House of Lords, the country’s unelected upper chamber. Members of the Lords can re...
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Palestinians in last push for UN nod for Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Palestinians on Wednesday made a final push to have UNESCO recognize the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Israeli-controlled West Bank as an endangered World He...
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Egypt’s generals eye Turkish model
CAIRO — Now that Egypt has its first freely elected president, Egypt’s powerful generals appear headed toward copying the Turkish model from decades past — retaining overwhelming powers while allow...
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Associated Press Mohammed Morsi (bottom row left) poses for a portrait with Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim (right), and Egyptian police generals in Cairo, on Tuesday. The military has pledged to turn power over to a civilian government once a new president is named. On Sunday Islamist Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared Egypt's first freely elected president in modern history.
New Egypt president moves toward unity government
CAIRO — President-elect Mohammed Morsi tried to ease the turmoil that has rocked Egypt since the uprising 16 months ago, reaching out Tuesday to Christians, women and secular revolutionaries to joi...
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‘Suspicious’ blast destroys house, kills child
LONDON — A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, police and rescue workers said. Pol...
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Europe tries to convince Germany to do more to strengthen the Euro
BRUSSELS — Top European officials have called on countries that use the euro to surrender more control over their national budgets, a move apparently aimed at easing Germany’s fears of sharing debt...
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