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Bank hopes impairment charges will fall this year from last year's high levels, but pace of reduction depends on its Irish residential mortgage book and commercial property marketsBank of Ireland, the only Irish lender to escape nationalisation during the financial crisis, warned that arrears on residential...(more)
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Look at Lebanon – its delicate balance depends on there being confidence that no one particular group is dominating the systemThe likely failure of special envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan reflects a dire situation in Syria. To avert a dramatic escalation, the country needs a structured...(more)
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However arresting the girl in green is, the idea of staying focused on Afghanistan's progress is unpopular these days"Hard-working Afghan photographer wins Pulitzer" – that's the general headline the international press ran with last week as Massoud Hossaini's photograph, the girl in green, won the Pulitzer...(more)
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Auction of €2.5bn of sovereign debt proceeded smoothly this morning, in early test of market confidence after prime minister's resignation• Today's agenda10.21am: A bit more bond auction action -- Italy has seen its borrowing costs jump, selling €3.34bn of debt at the highest costs since January.Bloomberg...(more)
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George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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THE SUPREME Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from a Manhattan couple seeking to end rent-stabilization laws. James and Jeanne Harmon had lost earlier court attempts to get the laws thrown out, the most recent of which was a decision last year by the 2nd...(more)
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A British man convicted of plotting to blow up an aircraft tells a court that Osama Bin Laden said his attack would bring down the US economy.
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Shoe-bomber Saajid Badat tells US court that Osama bin Laden believed a follow-up attack could cripple US economyA British man who trained to be a shoe-bomber a decade ago says Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks that he believed a...(more)
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A nonnative species that is known as the red-eared slider is pushing out local species, like painted and box turtles, wreaking havoc on the ecosystem.
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Decades of consistent Mexico-US immigration has come to an end, a report says, citing tough border control and economic conditions in both nations.
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Abhishek Manu Singhvi quits as the Congress party's spokesman after a video allegedly showing him having sex was distributed on social networking sites.
