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Gold losses seen limited on Cyprus bullion sale plan

By Frank Tang and Jan Harvey
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Gold posted its biggest one-day drop in nearly 2 months on Wednesday after Cyprus was forced to sell most of its gold reserves, ...
April 11, 2013, 12:51 am
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EU mulls bank law to impose losses on depositors

By John O'Donnell
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ministers will consider a proposal this week to impose losses on interbank deposits of lenders in dire financial trouble as they sh...
April 11, 2013, 12:48 am

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Analysis - For utilities, selling grids is like selling their soul

By Anjuli Davies, Christoph Steitz and Geert De Clercq
LONDON/FRANKFURT/PARIS (Reuters) - For decades, Europe's utilities were vertically integrated behemoths that had a monopoly on the...
April 11, 2013, 12:30 am

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Iran ups aid effort after deadly quake near nuclear plant

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran stepped up relief efforts on Wednesday for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed 37 people and damaged dozens of villages but left its sole nuclear power station unscathed.
April 11, 2013, 12:28 am

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Venezuelan support for Maduro is conditional

CARACAS (AFP) - A truck barreled through a Caracas market with loudspeakers playing a campaign song of acting President Nicolas Maduro, with a Caribbean beat and the chorus "Chavez I swear, my vote is for Maduro."
April 11, 2013, 12:26 am

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EU raises flag over French, Italian, Spanish economies

By Jan Strupczewski and Martin Santa
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission warned of deepening economic problems in France, Italy and Spain on Wednesday, and said Slovenia must t...
April 11, 2013, 12:21 am

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Nissan to make new van at Renault French site - sources

By Laurence Frost and Gilles Guillaume
PARIS (Reuters) - Nissan <7201.T> plans to move production of a mid-sized van from Spain to Renault's Sandouville plant in F...
April 11, 2013, 12:13 am

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Rift grows within French government over pace of cuts

By Catherine Bremer
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande promised on Wednesday to stick with deficit-reduction plans, despite stirrings of a revolt within his Socialist ...
April 10, 2013, 11:59 pm

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Mladic ejected from court for challenging massacre witness

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was removed from a UN war crimes court Wednesday for challenging harrowing testimony from a survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
April 10, 2013, 11:57 pm

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Cameron says Thatcher made Britain great, others snub her

By Andrew Osborn and Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron delivered an emotional tribute to Margaret Thatcher in parliament on Wednesday, but political oppone...
April 10, 2013, 11:54 pm

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Vote monitor slams Russia ministry for 'wanting it closed'

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian election monitoring group Golos (Voice) on Wednesday slammed the authorities for trying to halt its work after the justice ministry launched a court case accusing it of failing to declare itself as a "foreign agent" with international funding.
April 10, 2013, 11:45 pm

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Fed policymakers eyed ending bond-buys this year - minutes

(Reuters) - A few U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers expected to taper the pace of asset purchases by midyear and end them later this year, while several others expected to slow the pace a bit later an...
April 10, 2013, 11:44 pm
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Chrysler recalls more than 263,000 vehicles globally

DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC said it is recalling more than 263,0000 vehicles globally in six separate actions.
In the largest action, the No. 3 U.S. automaker, an affiliate o...
April 10, 2013, 11:37 pm

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Italy hikes debt targets, says can focus on growth

By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's caretaker government on Wednesday sharply hiked its targets for public debt this year and next despite waves of austerity meas...
April 10, 2013, 11:25 pm

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FCA signals new onus on sellers in finance rules

By Huw Jones
LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced sweeping changes in financial regulation on Wednesday, telling banks they can no longer blame customers w...
April 10, 2013, 11:19 pm

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Minor changes to Cyprus deal possible - Finnish Finance Minister

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen said on Wednesday that euro zone finance ministers might make minor tweaks to the wording of Cyprus' bailout programme when they meet in ...
April 10, 2013, 11:15 pm
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Falklands vets given Thatcher funeral role

Veterans of the Falklands War will carry Margaret Thatcher's coffin at her funeral next week.
April 10, 2013, 11:14 pm

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Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards dies aged 87

LONDON (AFP) - British scientist Robert Edwards, who was awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work in developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), died on Wednesday aged 87, his university announced.
April 10, 2013, 11:13 pm

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Fed policymakers eyed ending bond-buying this year - minutes

(Reuters) - A few U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers expected to taper the pace of asset purchases by midyear and end them later this year, while several others expected to slow the pace a bit later an...
April 10, 2013, 11:13 pm

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Portugal banks need 8 billion euros extra capital - Moody's

By Alan Wheatley and Sergio Goncalves
LISBON (Reuters) - Banks in bailed-out Portugal need an extra 8 billion euros (6.82 billion pounds) in capital, based on conservative tests of thei...
April 10, 2013, 10:59 pm

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