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European shares slide, insurers hit by Munich Re forecastAFP - Europe's main stock markets dropped on Friday, led by the insurance sector which tumbled after German re-insurance giant Munich Re warned that its 2008 net profit would miss targets.
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Germans say Obama speech sent 'positive signal'AP - Barack Obama's speech to a huge Berlin crowd sent a "positive signal" to Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Friday, praising the presidential candidate's focus on working with America's partners.
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Lufthansa faces major strike, union saysAFP - Lufthansa, the leading German airline, faces a major strike next week after members of the German trade union Verdi voted on Friday for a strike to press demands for higher wages.
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Oil traders face US civil action
The US energy regulator takes civil action against a Dutch-based oil trading firm and its boss for manipulating crude oil prices.
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The US energy regulator takes civil action against a Dutch-based oil trading firm and its boss for manipulating crude oil prices.
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Medicine man
Bosnian tells how he was charmed by 'healer' Karadzic
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Bosnian tells how he was charmed by 'healer' Karadzic
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Hong Kong opens processing plant for manure
Reuters - Hong Kong has prepared a HK$37million (2.3 million pound) composting plant to deal with up to20 tonnes of manure a day from horses taking part in equestrianevents in next month's Olympics and September's Paralympics.
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Reuters - Hong Kong has prepared a HK$37million (2.3 million pound) composting plant to deal with up to20 tonnes of manure a day from horses taking part in equestrianevents in next month's Olympics and September's Paralympics.
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Venezuela's Chavez to make up with Spanish leadersAP - Hugo Chavez was on a hug-and-make-up visit to Spain on Friday, his first since a now-infamous exchange in which Spain's normally reserved monarch told the voluble Venezuelan leader to "shut up" at a summit in Chile last year.
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Unwitting pensioner tends marijuana plants
Reuters - A 73-year-old Dutch man wasastonished to learn from police that the begonias he hadlovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuanaplantation.
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Reuters - A 73-year-old Dutch man wasastonished to learn from police that the begonias he hadlovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuanaplantation.
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Russian stock markets plunge
AP - Investors piled out of Russian stocks Friday after the abrupt departure from the country of a foreign oil boss and the prime minister's unexpected severe criticism of a large steel firm.
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AP - Investors piled out of Russian stocks Friday after the abrupt departure from the country of a foreign oil boss and the prime minister's unexpected severe criticism of a large steel firm.
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British dog handler killed in AfghanistanAFP - A British army dog handler and his explosives sniffer dog have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said Friday.
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