US Treasury prices added to previous gains on Thursday after a regional manufacturing index slipped, as expected, and its employment component plunged. The Chicago Purchasing Management Index fell to 61.2 in December from a November

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Toronto stocks edged modestly higher on Thursday as slightly firmer bullion helped gold miners, but with the US markets closed on Friday for the New Year's Day holiday, activity was down to a trickle "There's

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China's shares ended the year near a five-year low on Friday amid weak investor sentiment and fears the slump will continue into 2005, but blue chips bucked the trend on hopes they will post strong

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At least nine Russians were killed and dozens injured Friday in a bus accident in Latvia, the Baltic country's state rescue service reported. Police said the two-storey bus with 65 people on board - a

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Pope Pius XII ordered the Church in France not to return Jewish children to their parents if they had been baptised into the Catholic faith to save them from the Nazis, according to a 1946

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Seven people were killed and 12 wounded in the second gunfight between militias in as many months at a key checkpoint near a notorious gun market, witnesses said. Five of those killed in the clash

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A Zimbabwean court has refused to drop charges against an ally of President Robert Mugabe that he, along with four others, sold state secrets to foreign agents, a state prosecutor said on Friday. Businessman Philip

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Two Hamas men and a Palestinian teenager were killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the army pressed on with an operation it says is aimed at stopping attacks on Jewish

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PLO chief Mahmud Abbas promised to remain faithful to the spirit of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as he addressed a crowd in Gaza gathered to celebrate the founding of his Fatah movement on

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North Korea hinted on Friday at breaking off talks with Japan over the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, saying Pyongyang no longer sees significance in maintaining contact. Japan and North Korea held their

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