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LONDON (AP) — GlaxoSmithKline will donate 400 million doses of medicine to protect children against intestinal parasites in a programme beginning in 2012, the company said yesterday.
Combined with programmes already established, the donation of 400 m...
DATE: Oct 15, 2010
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is to abolish, merge or reform 481 semi-independent state agencies to cut spending and help reduce its deficit, under a plan that will cost thousands of jobs and change the way many services are delivered.
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LONDON (AP) — From stolen cars to suspicious smells, one of Britain's biggest police forces has tweeted every incident it dealt with over a 24 hour-period to prove a point.
The online Twitter campaign aimed to show the pressures that police are under...
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PARIS (Reuters) – Nationwide strikes paralysed France's oil refining industry yesterday, with only one out of 12 plants operating normally and some petrol stations reporting brief shortages due to panic buying.
A strike at Fos Lavera entered its 18th...
DATE: Oct 15, 2010
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's leader said the southern Chinese financial hub's economy is expected to grow five to six percent this year as it completes its recovery from the global financial crisis.
Donald Tsang said in his annual policy speech that ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — JetBlue will start a new advertising campaign with a familiar brand message: Ours is better than theirs.
The campaign, which debuts today, features the slogan "You Above All" in print and video ads. The online portion features a humor...
DATE: Oct 15, 2010
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The annual rate of inflation fell for the fourth successive month in August to two percent.
But significant increases in the prices of food and electricity during the month kept the cost of living moving higher.
Those were two of the main revelations...
DATE: Oct 15, 2010
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Redomestication away from Bermuda is having little operational impact on insurers who have chosen to move, according to credit rating agency Standard & Poor's.
Laline Carvalho, director of S&P's financial services ratings group, told BNamericas that ...
DATE: Oct 14, 2010
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – All 50 US states launched a joint investigation of the mortgage industry yesterday, a move some experts fear will cause uncertainty and threaten the recovery of the fragile housing market.
The state attorneys general are looking ...
DATE: Oct 14, 2010
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LONDON (AP) — Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group says it will eliminate 4,500 more jobs as it continues to streamline operations.
Lloyds was formed in the takeover of Halifax/Bank of Scotland by Lloyds TSB at the peak of the credit crisis.
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DATE: Oct 14, 2010
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