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Financial Times
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Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”.
The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministri..
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BBC News
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The World Bank is alleged to have cut from a report research that suggests pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually in China.
The move followed pressure from Beijing, which believes the material is too sensitive and could lea..
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CNN
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The value of the Zimbabwean dollar suffered its worst crash in memory, dealers said Thursday, sparking a run on dollars and forcing stores to close early to put new prices on their meager stock.
Black market exchange rates -- fueled by the central bank..
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BBC News
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A senior aide to embattled World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz has announced his resignation.
Kevin Kellems said an ongoing scandal surrounding his boss made it difficult for him to remain effective in his role at the Washington-based institution.
M..
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Al Jazeera
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Chavez intends to set up a new lender run by Latin American nations which he has called the 'Bank of the South'.
He has pledged to support it with Venezuela's oil revenues.
Separately, Chavez also offered on Sunday to contribute $250m to a new reg..
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FOX News
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President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would formally pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move since the nation has already canceled its debts to the lending institutions.
The leftist leader,..
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Toronto Star
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Bank customers would have more money in their wallets if Parliament acts on an NDP proposal and legislates automated teller fees out of existence...
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USA Today
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The local Wachovia Bank here was a busy place last week — for robberies. On Jan. 10 around 9:34 a.m. a man walked into the bank and presented a note to a teller that read "give me the money or I will shoot," police said...
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SF Gate
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Japanese lawmakers endorsed acting Bank of Japan chief Masaaki Shirakawa as its new governor Wednesday, ending a power vacuum at the central bank's helm by approving the government's third candidate for the job.
But the opposition-controlled upper hous..
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BBC News
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The EU has said it will launch a full investigation of the state bailout plan of troubled UK bank Northern Rock.
Northern Rock was given emergency government funding last year, after it was hard hit by the credit crunch.
In February, the government..
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BBC News
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Swiss financial giant UBS has reported that its writedowns as a result of the sub-prime crisis have more than doubled to about $37bn (�18.5bn).
It is the largest loss by any bank since the credit crunch began.
UBS also announced that its chairman..
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BBC News
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French bank Societe Generale says it has uncovered "massive" fraud by a Paris-based trader which resulted in a loss of 4.9bn euros ($7.1bn; �3.7bn).
The bank said the fraud was based on simple transactions, but concealed by "sophisticated and varied..
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BBC News
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The economic outlook for Africa is improving after a decade of growth of 5.4% for the continent that matches global rates, the World Bank has said.
The trend indicates that a fundamental change is occurring in Africa, a World Bank official told the BBC..
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BBC News
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Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is being questioned by police over his role in a bank privatisation deal.
He is suspected of trying to influence the sale of the state's controlling interest in Bank Leumi in favour of a friend whilst finance minis..
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Boston Globe
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A new squad of morality police has begun detaining Palestinians who eat or drink in public during Ramadan in the West Bank, where the Islamic month of daytime fasting was always widely observed but never imposed.
The 12-member squad appears to be an at..
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USA Today
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Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho to talk about the creation of a Palesti..
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MSNBC
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Palestinian officials said they also will tell Rice that Israel must start withdrawing troops from West Bank cities and restore the control of the Palestinian security forces there.
Israel seeks quick settlement for West Bank
In previous meetings, A..
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BBC News
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Armed robbers are still holding three people hostage at bank in the south of Paris after earlier releasing three others, local police say.
The hold-up is taking place at a Credit Lyonnais bank branch in the market in the town of Rungis, which is France..
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BBC News
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The transfer of North Korean funds from a bank in Macau - a key sticking point to nuclear disarmament talks with the US - is under way.
A Macau official said that most of the $24m frozen in the Banco Delta Asia had now been moved elsewhere.
The move..
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Al Jazeera
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Washington agreed to give its blessing for the funds' release to win progress on the nuclear issue. But North Korea has refused to move forward on a February pledge to start dismantling its nuclear programme until it receives the money.
Although Pyong..
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