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Euro zone unemployment at record high 10.9%
Unemployment in the 17 countries that make up the euro zone was at a record high of 10.9% in March, according to a new report that likely has incumbents in Sunday’s elections breaking into a cold sweat. The jobless rate is up from 10.8% in February...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Foreign Exchange Market, Market and Exchange, Unemployment
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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor dies at 96; erudite British travel writer
British travel writer Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, who tramped across Europe in his teens and captured a German general in Nazi-occupied Crete during World War II, died in Britain on Friday. He was 96.
Leigh Fermor had arrived in Britain on...Tags: Human Interest, England, World War II (1939-1945), Dirk Bogarde, Trips and Vacations
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'Grexit': Are Greece's euro fears causing a $1-billion bank run?
Greek officials were busy today cobbling together an emergency plan after talks to form a coalition government disintegrated Tuesday. In the meantime, Greeks have withdrawn $900 million from local banks. So said President Karolos Papoulias, according...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Karolos Papoulias, Market and Exchange, Economy, Business and Finance
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Palestinian Authority premier Salam Fayyad gives up finance post
World NowPalestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad kept the top job in a cabinet shakeup Wednesday but relinquished his duties as finance minister, a position that earned him praise abroad and criticism at home.... -
Egypt's presidential campaigns crisscross the nation
World NowEgypt’s first free presidential election is a week away. The 13 candidates -- those with name recognition and those whose mention draw puzzled expressions -- have been set loose upon the land with staffs and stickers, flags and banners, and sound... -
Lightning strikes French leader Hollande's plane on way to Berlin
World NowThere's a metaphor in here somewhere: As spanking-new French President François Hollande headed to Germany on Tuesday for a possibly contentious meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss how to save the eurozone, his plane was struck by... -
Greece to hold new election on June 17
World NowVoters will go to the polls for the second time in two months in Greece on June 17. The repeat round follows an inconclusive election May 6 that left no party in overall control, heightening fears that Greece will default on its debt and leave the... -
François Hollande: France's new 'Monsieur le Président'
World NowFrancois Hollande is sworn in Tuesday as France's new president. Hollande, who succeeds Nicolas Sarkozy, is France's first president from the Socialist Party in 17 years.... -
Greek president proposes a government of technocrats
World NowATHENS -- In the latest twist to Greece’s lingering political crisis, President Karolos Papoulias on Monday proposed a government of technocrats to stave off a repeat round of elections that could jeopardize the country’s fate in terms of... -
Palestinian prisoners to end hunger strike after deal with Israel
World NowHundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end their 28-day hunger strike after Israel promised to improve jail conditions, release detainees from solitary confinement and make other concessions.... -
Greece's political deadlock continues as coalition talks fail
World NowGreece entered a second week without a government as the leader of a hard-line leftist party, which seeks to tear up the country's international bailout agreements and their related austerity measures, pulled out of talks to form a coalition leadership,... -
Greece in last-ditch effort to form a government
World NowGreece's president began a last-ditch effort Sunday to broker a deal for a coalition government after last week's inconclusive elections. The financially ailing nation is without a government at a time when it most needs one....
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