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LONDON/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch financial group ING is in talks with the Dutch government about a state-backed cash injection estimated to be worth up to 9 billion euros ($12.12 billion), the Sunday Times reported. The Netherlands' biggest listed bank, which said on Friday that it was about to announce its first-ever quarterly loss, is expected...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium—Belgian authorities say 18 people have been arrested after a series of police raids smashed...
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: This is the year, according to an order from a president whom few dare to disappoint, that the architectural scars of war in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, will be removed. That the order has nearly been fulfilled is a feat. Not long ago, Grozny (the name means "terrible" in Russian) offered a panorama of sagging husks of buildings and unmarked graves, scenes that eerily resembled the ruins left by the most destructive urban battles of World War II. Grozny today is less a battlefield than the renovated seat of a new police state within Russia's borders, led by Ramzan Kadyrov, the republic's young and exceptionally violent president. And Kadyrov, a Chechen who has professed loyalty to the same...
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Pope Benedict XVI Travels To Shrine Near The Ruins Of Ancient Pompeii For Daylong Visit POMPEII, Italy, Oct. 19, 2008 E-Mail Story Print Story Sphere Share Text Size: A A A (AP) Pope Benedict XVI traveled to a shrine near the ruins of ancient Pompeii on Sunday and prayed for all people in pain or difficulty, saying faith can promote personal and social...
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Greek police are investigating reports that a number of officers humiliated a suspect by carrying out a strip search in the centre of Athens. The inquiry was ordered after a Greek newspaper published photographs of the incident involving a man who appears to be of Asian or Middle Eastern descent. He was...
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