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    • News Desk
    • Oct 26th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Hurricane-weary Florida mops up, again

    Residents armed with chain saws and brooms and an army of electrical repair crews on Tuesday attacked the shambles left behind by Hurricane Wilma's rampage through Florida, where 6 million people were without power. Wilma,

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  • Banking giant Santander posted a consensus-beating 5.7 percent rise in nine-month net profit on Tuesday, but its shares sagged as tougher goals for UK unit Abbey didn't emerge and some queried a surprise US purchase.

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  • Banking giant Santander posted a consensus-beating 5.7 percent rise in nine-month net profit on Tuesday, but its shares sagged as tougher goals for UK unit Abbey didn't emerge and some queried a surprise US purchase.

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  • Ford Motor Co, the second-largest US car maker, plans plenty more investment in emerging markets such as India and China despite financial woes at home, Chief Executive Bill Ford Jr. said on Tuesday. "There is

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    • News Desk
    • Oct 26th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Ericsson to buy most of Marconi for $2 billion

    Swedish telecoms equipment giant Ericsson is to buy fallen British rival Marconi for 16.8 billion crowns ($2.1 billion) to meet an expected boom in demand for fixed and mobile broadband Internet. Ericsson, the world's top

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    • News Desk
    • Oct 26th, 2005
    • Comments Off on ‘Immigration boosts EU population’

    The European Union's population grew by 2.3 million in 2004, mostly due to immigration which accounted for 1.9 million of the total, the bloc's statistical agency Eurostat said on Tuesday. The 25-nation EU's population was

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    • News Desk
    • Oct 26th, 2005
    • Comments Off on India to import onions from Pakistan and China

    India will import onions, a key ingredient in its food, from China and Pakistan to tide over a domestic shortage caused by a poor crop yield due to heavy rains and floods, officials said Tuesday.

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    • News Desk
    • Oct 26th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Pakistan facing shortage of livestock

    Pakistan should develop over 10,000 dairy farms, sheep farms besides importing over 0.1 million animals from India to meet 25 to 30 percent deficiency of livestock in the country as with an overall 0.5 percent

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  • Equities failed to show recovery signs at the Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) where bears dominated the proceeding amid decrease in index. ISE Network index showed a decrease of 98.13 points as the rate-based indicator moved

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  • Equities failed to show recovery signs at the Islamabad Stock Exchange (ISE) where bears dominated the proceeding amid decrease in index. ISE Network index showed a decrease of 98.13 points as the rate-based indicator moved

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