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Sarkozy allies drawn into Karachi kickbacks affair

PARIS | Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:52pm IST

http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/09/2 ... 0120110922

Thierry Gaubert, a friend and advisor to Sarkozy for many years, was placed under investigation on suspicion that he carried cash kickbacks from the sale of submarines to Pakistan back to France in suitcases.

Nicolas Bazire, who was a witness to Sarkozy's wedding with Carla Bruni in 2008, was arrested and being held in police custody over allegations that he received delivery of the kickbacks from Gaubert in Paris.


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Factbox - The Bloody Sunday killings

Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:12pm BST

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/2 ... 8Z20110922

January 30, 1972 became known as Bloody Sunday after British soldiers shot dead 13 men taking part in [duh] an unlawful civil rights march in Londonderry. A 14th died weeks later.

The troops [duh] said they shot at people armed with guns or nail bombs.


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Berlin greets pope with protests on tough German tour

Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:57pm GMT

http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews ... 22?sp=true

In a country rocked by the clerical sex scandals sweeping across Europe in the past two years, a record 181,000 people quit the Church last year -- for the first time more than the number of Protestants leaving their churches and of baptisms into the Catholic Church.


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Factbox: What the twisting Fed plans to buy and sell

Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:41pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/ ... 7Q20110921

plans to buy $400 billion in Treasuries with remaining maturities of 6 to 30 years by June 2012, and sell an equal amount of Treasuries with maturities of 3 years and less.


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Special Report: Crunch time at America's richest union

DETROIT | Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:33pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/ ... 7R20110922

the labor union that credits itself with creating the American middle class has glimpsed the end of the line.


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Failed bill spotlights dysfunction in [Coward] Congress

WASHINGTON | Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:06pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/ ... 8Z20110922

embarrassing defeat of a spending bill threw into question [Coward] Congress' ability to pass basic laws.


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Exclusive: Watchdog backs down on commodities rules

WASHINGTON | Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:58pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/ ... 1P20110922

A draft of the final rule by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, reviewed by Reuters late on Wednesday, maintains that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street overhaul law requires position limits -- caps on the number of contracts a single trader can hold -- to prevent excessive speculation in oil, [>] grain, [<], silver and other commodity markets.

But the CFTC modified areas of the plan that were a major concern for big banks like Morgan Stanley and firms like Shell, including whether or not different arms of a single company must count separately managed positions as one, and whether swaps and futures positions can be offset

WORLD STARVATION, WHO CARES ?


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US invaders spy plane shot down in Logar

Sept. 22 –

On Thursday, Mujahideen brought down one of the US invaders’ pilotless spy plane in Poli Alam city, the capital of Logar province as it was hovering overhead to spy on Mujahideen.