Archive for the January 2, 2005
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Minnesota's attorney general has sued credit card issuer Capital One Financial Corp, accusing the big US credit card issuer of falsely advertising low rates and defrauding consumers. Attorney General Mike Hatch said Capital One nearly
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Venezuela's 12-month inflation ended the year at 19.2 percent, nearly eight points below the 2003 figure and just below recent government forecasts, the Central Bank said Friday. The fall in inflation is the latest in
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Prime Minister Ahmed Qorie said on Saturday Palestinians should halt armed violence only if there was a credible peace process with Israel leading toward a viable Palestinian state. In linking calm to peacemaking, Qorie appeared
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India's biggest motorcycle maker, Hero Honda Motors Ltd, sold 230,751 bikes in December, up 44 percent from 160,191 units in the same month a year earlier, the company said on its Web site on Saturday.
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Famed stockpicker Bill Miller of Legg Mason Inc. has outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 index for a 14th straight year, a feat no other mutual fund manager has accomplished since at least 1960. Miller's
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Peruvian consumer prices rose 3.48 percent in 2004, just below a revised official goal of 3.5 percent inflation, the government said on Saturday. Higher oil prices and a drought affecting farming helped push consumer prices
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Pakistan and India on Saturday exchanged information on nuclear installations and facilities, through diplomatic channels, said Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan. "Both countries exchange information on the first working day every year, according to Article-II
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Pakistan and India on Saturday exchanged information on nuclear installations and facilities, through diplomatic channels, said Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan. "Both countries exchange information on the first working day every year, according to Article-II
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President General Pervez Musharraf has said his government has introduced real democracy in the country and asked the opposition parties to accept the rule of majority for Pakistan's onward march towards sustainable development. Addressing a
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President General Pervez Musharraf has said his government has introduced real democracy in the country and asked the opposition parties to accept the rule of majority for Pakistan's onward march towards sustainable development. Addressing a
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