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Euronext NYSE merger moves closerEuropean regulators have given the go-ahead to the proposed tie-up between Euronext and the New… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
ECB ignores calls to respond to strong euroThe European Central Bank – which is set to raise interest rates again this week – has ignored… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
world news
EU trio debates Turkey, EnergyAngela Merkel and Jacques Chirac have begun bilateral talks aimed at establishing a common position… 05/12/06 12:12 CET
Sectarian violence in Iraq continues despite Bush pleaMore than 30 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Baghdad – a day after George Bush… 05/12/06 12:12 CET
NASA restarts moon countdownBack to the future…or at least back to the moon for NASA as it lays foundations for a future… 05/12/06 12:12 CET
Fijian army takes over islandCalm reigns on the pacific island of Fiji after the military took power this morning in the… 05/12/06 12:12 CET
Pinochet “improving” in hospitalFormer Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet remains in military hospital in Santiago, reportedly… 05/12/06 12:12 CET
Pinochet’s condition improvesThere has been an improvement in the condition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
UK police follow poisoned spy trail to RussiaThe official investigation into the poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
Tension mounts in Lebanon ahead of funeralAhead of the funeral today of an anti-government campaigner in Lebanon, demonstrators have… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
Bush meets top Iraqi Shi’ite leaderJust days before the influential Iraq study group publishes its conclusions, an increasingly… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
Fiji’s Prime Minister under house arrestThe Prime Minister of Fiji has said he is under house arrest after heavily armed troops surrounded… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
Merkel speaks against hard deadlines for TurkeyGermany has rejected the idea of the European Union setting any ultimatums for Turkey over its… 05/12/06 07:12 CET
British police begin poisoned spy probe in Moscow“They will stay as long as it takes.” These were the words of a British Embassy spokesman in… 05/12/06 06:12 CET
British soldier killed in battle with TalibanFighting in Afghanistan continues as the worst violence there in five years intensifies. In… 05/12/06 06:12 CET
Anti-government protester buried in tense BeirutAmid growing fears that Lebanon could plunge into a new cycle of violence, an anti-government… 05/12/06 06:12 CET
US not winning Iraq war, according to Defence nominee GatesThe United States is not winning the war in Iraq in the view of Robert Gates, the man set to become… 05/12/06 06:12 CET
Poisoned spy case brought up in Russia-Italy talksThe Kremlin denies any involvement in Alexander Litvinenko’s killing in London, but as Russian… 05/12/06 06:12 CET
