European corporate credit default swap spreads moved wider on Monday, with worries over sovereign issues and the earnings season weighing on sentiment. The move was an extension of a last week's widening trend, which put

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Indian shares rose 0.5 percent on Monday, led by gains in financials stocks such as HDFC Bank, as brokerages and investors gave a thumbs up to the December quarter earnings announced so far. Financials topped

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A rally in mining and oil shares on Monday on the back of firmer commodity prices helped European equities to close higher, with investors waiting for a slew of heavyweight earnings results this week for

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US stocks, financial and commodity markets were closed on Monday for Martin Luther King Day. Trading will resume on Tuesday. Copyright Reuters, 2010

Taliban militants wearing explosives vests launched a brazen assault on the heart of Kabul on Monday, as suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings paralysed the capital for hours. Afghan

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The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by

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Uzbek border guards exchanged gunfire with their Kyrgyz counterparts wounding and detaining one guard, Kyrgyzstan said on Monday, in an incident likely to stoke tensions in Central Asia. The United States and Russia both operate

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Two terror suspects won the right Monday to seek compensation from the British government over the restrictions imposed upon their activities since 2006. The High Court ruling delivers another blow to Britain's system of so-called

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Rescue workers evacuated thousands of rural residents from parts of north-western China after extreme cold and blizzard conditions killed four people and left half a million snowed under, meteorologists said Monday. In neighbouring Mongolia, an

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Iran has exchanged messages with major powers on its nuclear energy programme and sees signs of progress, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday, despite Western attempts to impose more sanctions. "There have been ongoing

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