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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced on Saturday that his government and Libya have agreed to an arms deal worth $1.8 billion. Putin also said that the agreement is not just for small arms.
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From the squalor of inner city Cleveland, a young child of drug addicts finds his way into suburbia and success. This is the story of Scott Anthony Bickel.
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Speaking in Hong Kong on Wednesday Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said that a plan similar to the one the U.S. implemented to rebuild post-World War II Europe is needed for the reconstruction of Haiti.
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The central banks of several Asian countries that are fearful of the impact a weak dollar will have on their exports, intervened in the markets on Thursday to buy the troubled U.S. currency.
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Stephen Green, Chairman of one of the world's largest banking groups HSBC, has spoken of how the banking world owes what he calls the "real world" an apology.
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A providential coincidence of modern Chinese history may have aligned the strategic interests of two profoundly important but different groups of persecuted Chinese nationals who have suffered the same unhappy fate.
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Vegemite is the Australian yeast extract spread that terrifies foreigners and prevents taking American chat shows too seriously. Recently Kraft, the owner of Vegemite, decided on a new Vegemite-inspired snack, and held a naming competition.
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The new movie 2012 will be premiering worldwide on November 13. On Oct. 1 the film's marketing launched in the biggest blitz in film history, surpassing even the Super Bowl.
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The international aid agency Oxfam has launched a £9.5 million ($15 million) emergency appeal for East Africa as 23 million people in the region find their lives under threat from hunger.
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Economic forecaster of the current global financial crisis and publisher of Gloom Boom Doom Marc Faber delivered a speech in Hong Kong on Friday and took on nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman's latest article "How Did Economists Get it So Wrong?"
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