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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.
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GENEVA (Reuters)–- The strong recovery in air travel is slowing as the force of the economic upswing moderates, with growth in business travel continuing to outpace that in economy class, airline industry association IATA said yesterday.
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Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company is to start writing long-term care facilities insurance in the US from the start of next year.
The company's Allied World Healthcare unit will write the business directly and through approved brokers and w...
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India's economic growth is on track to accelerate in 2010/11 on the back of monsoon rains, but expectations for growth in the following year have moderated slightly, a quarterly Reuters poll shows.
Analysts raised their expectation...
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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...
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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.
The overhaul of w...
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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...
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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...
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