Archive for the October 29, 2005
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels, who have been fighting since 1972 for a separate state, now want something else - their own national anthem. The pro-rebel Tamilnet website reported that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
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The late civil rights icon Rosa Parks will be the first woman to lie in honour in the US Capitol Rotunda, a tribute usually reserved for presidents, soldiers and politicians. The US Senate voted on
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Japan and the United States are expected to set the scene for a realignment of US forces in Japan and a strengthening of their defence alliance at high-level talks in Washington this weekend. The two
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German industrial giant Siemens on Friday disputed allegations in a UN report it paid bribes to Saddam Hussein's government, but Sweden's Volvo said payments to work in Iraq were considered normal at the time. A
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Friday he will pick reform-minded people when he reshuffles his cabinet on Monday, following his party's landslide victory in a snap general election last month. "I will put the
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Cuban President Fidel Castro denied on Thursday that his Communist government had accepted US aid for the first time in the wake of Hurricane Wilma. The US State Department said earlier its long-time foe Cuba,
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia said it wanted to expand into Asia Friday to take advantage of the region's rising incomes. Commonwealth Bank chairman John Schubert said Australia's largest retail lender would seek to expand
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Malaysia's first-ever Islamic bank vowed Friday to search out and prosecute those responsible for 127 million dollars in losses as the issue threatened to turn into a major financial scandal. Bank Islam's managing director Noorazman
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Russian private wealth is growing by a staggering 30 percent a year on the back of high oil prices and an IPO boom, with the cream of US and European private banks battling it out
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Electronics maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd posted a surprise 11 percent jump in quarterly profit on Friday, helped by strong sales of plasma TVs and a recovery in its devices division, and stuck to
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