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Connecticut's top law enforcement official called for online classifieds website Craigslist to confirm that it has permanently closed its "adult services" listings.Craigslist has remained quiet as to why it replaced the section tab with a "censored" label in the United States over the weekend.The move did not appear to affect non-US sites, which continued to feature listings for "erotic services.
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Revival of concerns that stress tests in July understated lenders’ holdings of risky government debt
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Commission President José Manuel Barroso set out his strategic plans for the EU over the next year in his State of the Union speech to the European Parliament.
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Towering French judoka Teddy Riner is aiming to become the first man to win five gold medals when the world championships return to their roots in Tokyo this week for the first time in half a century.But his Japanese rivals are out to settle scores with the Frenchman in the over-100kg class Thursday on the first day of the event and pace their country's comeback from an unprecedented title drough
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Plagued by poor design and sclerotic bureaucracy, flagship European fund to help workers dismissed as a result of the recession has all but ground to a halt
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Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, is in talks to join US software giant Oracle, the Wall Street Journal said on its website.Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Hurd, who left HP on August 6, is in negotiations to join the firm as a top executive but a position has not been confirmed.The CEO position at Oracle is
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‘No one will escape’ tighter financial supervision in the European Union in the future, warned the bloc’s Internal Market Commissioner, even as he attempted to reassure the industry to ‘remain calm’ over the new regulatory regime
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Taliban insurgents appear to be making good on threats to kill candidates in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, adding a grim dimension to the ambitions of political hopefuls in the war-torn country.In recent weeks, three candidates and at least seven campaign workers have been killed, and many others kidnapped and injured, in attacks blamed on the Taliban, according to officials.More than 2,
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A newly merged British Airways and Iberia would be “very interested” in investing in an Indian airline, BA chief Willie Walsh said on Saturday as he announced a groundbreaking code-share deal with India’s Kingfisher Airlines
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South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-Hwan on Saturday offered to resign over the controversial hiring of his daughter, a spokesman for the ministry said."Minister Yu offered to step down, taking responsibility for causing controversy over the issue of hiring his daughter," Spokesman Kim Young-Sun told journalists.Yu on Friday apologized after his ministry hired his daughter for a well-paid job,
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Fears of a double-dip recession in the US were allayed on Friday by data showing that the private sector had created 235,000 jobs in the past three months
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The 33 Chilean miners trapped underground longer than anyone on record will soon be able to see and talk to loved ones through a video link, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Thursday.The morale-boosting technology will be made possible by lowering a fiber-optic cable to the men, who were cut off deep down in the San Jose mine by a cave-in more than four weeks ago."They will be able to have pri
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Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports
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Time to register for the 2010 edition of EU’s young translator contest.
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