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Spain's Bankia seeks 19 billion euros in state aid
Spain’s Bankia group asked the government for a 19 billion euro bailout on Friday. The lender was nationalised earlier this month. Madrid now owns a 45 per cent stake. Bankia is struggling to plug a hole in its balance sheet because it holds some 32 billion euros of bad…
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With most of the votes counted in Egypt’s landmark presidential election, the Muslim…
Hollande takes withdrawal message to Kabul
French President François Hollande has wasted no time in taking his message of an early French…
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