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Rogue trader Leeson gets Irish partnership as financial adviser

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Nick Leeson, the former rogue trader who brought down Britain's oldest investment bank, has a new job as a partner in an Irish firm advising borrowers struggling to make loan repaym...
April 8, 2013, 8:00 pm
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Avon plans to cut over 400 jobs, exit Ireland

(Reuters) - Avon Products Inc said on Monday it plans to slash more than 400 jobs as part of a previously announced cost-cutting initiative.
The job cuts will occur across...
April 8, 2013, 7:37 pm

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Two more dead after sectarian clashes in Egypt

By Paul Taylor
CAIRO (Reuters) - Two more deaths were reported on Monday after sectarian violence at Cairo's Coptic cathedral that the Egyptian government and Muslim and Christian leade...
April 8, 2013, 7:28 pm

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Pakistan's Musharraf entangled in treason accusation

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered former President Pervez Musharraf to respond to an accusation of treason, a move that could hurt his ambitious bid to win back influence in t...
April 8, 2013, 7:22 pm

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Kerry to discuss 'sensitive issues' in Beijing: China

BEIJING (AFP) - China and the US will aim to "solve sensitive issues" during a weekend visit by Secretary of State John Kerry, Beijing's foreign ministry said Monday, as the two row over trade and North Korea racks up tensions.
April 8, 2013, 7:18 pm

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Bombardier gets 336 million euro order for German rail operator

(Reuters) - Bombardier Inc said its train unit signed an agreement with German engineering group Siemens AG to supply train components to state-owned rail operator Deu...
April 8, 2013, 7:06 pm

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EU regulators to approve $15.8 billion Liberty, Virgin deal - sources

BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are expected to clear a $15.8 billion (10 billion pounds) takeover bid by U.S. cable group Liberty Global for British peer Virgin Me...
April 8, 2013, 6:50 pm
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UK grandmother loses death sentence appeal on Bali

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AFP) - A British grandmother sentenced to death for trafficking drugs into Bali faces a last-ditch appeal to Indonesia's highest court to avoid the firing squad, after her first bid to lift the sentence was rejected Monday.
April 8, 2013, 6:29 pm
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N.Korea: Putin welcomes US missile test delay

HANOVER, Germany (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday welcomed a US decision to delay the test of an international ballistic missile to avoid stoking tensions with North Korea.
April 8, 2013, 6:00 pm

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Suicide car bomber kills 15 in central Damascus

By Oliver Holmes and Mariam Karouny
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb killed at least 15 people and wounded 53 in the main business district of Damascus on Monday in what the Syrian...
April 8, 2013, 5:57 pm

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North Korea to pull workers out of Kaesong

North Korea will pull its 53,000 workers out of the joint industrial zone in Kaesong.
April 8, 2013, 5:47 pm

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Some signs of recovery, but poor orders darken Czech outlook

By Jan Lopatka
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech industrial production edged up on the month in February but thinning order books show the central European country may not yet be coming out of i...
April 8, 2013, 5:36 pm

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Spain's Santander tweaks accounts ahead of rule changes

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Santander on Monday said its 2012 net profit, hammered by rotten property assets, would have been marginally higher than previously stated when factoring in c...
April 8, 2013, 5:17 pm

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China expects more trade disputes; eyes imports, urges negotiation

BEIJING (Reuters) - China expects trade friction, especially with emerging economies, to increase, possibly damaging exports and undermining global trade stability, and will boost imports from them to...
April 8, 2013, 4:57 pm

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Bangladesh PM rules out new blasphemy law

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh's prime minister has ruled out a new blasphemy law despite a mass campaign by Islamists to introduce the death penalty for bloggers whom they accuse of insulting the Prophet Mohammed.
April 8, 2013, 4:48 pm

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Euro zone sentiment dips in April on Cyprus woes

BERLIN (Reuters) - Euro zone sentiment fell for a second consecutive month in April due to concerns over the Cyprus bailout, Sentix research group said on Monday.
Sentix said its monthl...
April 8, 2013, 4:41 pm

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Santander says restates 2012 net profit at 2.295 billion euros

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Santander restated its 2012 net profit on Monday at 2.295 billion euros (1.95 billion pounds), up from a previously reported 2.205 billion euros on January 31...
April 8, 2013, 4:17 pm

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Serbia rejects Kosovo deal, begs EU for more time

By Aleksandar Vasovic and Matt Robinson
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia rejected a European Union-brokered plan on Monday to tackle the ethnic partition of its former province Kosovo, a mov...
April 8, 2013, 3:53 pm

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Cyprus bank probe to cover Popular, central bank says

By Karolina Tagaris
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus's central bank confirmed on Monday it will extend an inquiry into the banking crisis that has crippled the island to fully cover Cyprus Po...
April 8, 2013, 3:32 pm

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Bomb hits Afghan bus, kills nine

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AFP) - A roadside bomb exploded under an Afghan bus southwest of Kabul on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Taliban militants, officials said.
April 8, 2013, 3:30 pm

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