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Jordan's central bank to continue dinar-dollar peg
Amman - The Governor of the Jordan Central Bank (CBJ) on Sunday defended tying the Jordanian national currency, the dinar, to the US dollar, saying the policy proved helpful for national exports. He said that the dinar-dollar peg, which was adopted i...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

EXTRA: Interpol arrested 1,300 suspects in Asia during 2008
Lyon/Hamburg - In their fight against the Asian betting mafia the international police organization Interpol already arrested 1,300 suspects last year and confiscated 16 million dollars, an Interpol report showed. During the Operation SOGA II (Soccer...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Report: No living witnesses left for Demjanjuk trial
Berlin - The trial of alleged war-criminal John Demjanjuk, 89, will likely proceed without any eyewitnesses available to the prosecution, the news magazine Focus reported Sunday. Due to start on November 30, the trial of Demjanjuk, who was extradited...

[Posted on : 2009-11-22 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Pope meets with Anglican head over Vatican overtures
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI met with the head of the Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, on Saturday in Rome to discuss the Catholic Church's overtures to Anglicans. In their cordial talks in the Vatican, Williams and Benedict sp...

[Posted on : 2009-11-21 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Fire temporarily halts flights at Prague airport
Prague - A fire in the control tower halted air traffic at Prague airport for five hours on Saturday, radio reports said. The blaze broke out at around 5 am (0400 GMT), probably as a result of a cable defect. It was quickly extinguished, but smoke fi...

[Posted on : 2009-11-21 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

Report: Fearing death penalty, Berlin to send team to 9-11 trial
Berlin - The German government is to send observers to New York to ensure that evidence it provided in the case against five men accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks does not lead to them receiving the death penalty, news magazine ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-21 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

VW unveils 25.8-billion-euro investment plan
Berlin - Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen AG on Friday unveiled a 25.8-billion-euro (38.2-billion-dollar) investment plan in the coming three years. The move came as the group also said it was acquiring the insolvent German auto parts group Karma...

[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Cars (General) ]

International court appoints defence counsel for Karadzic
The Hague - British-born lawyer Richard Harvey was appointed defence counsel for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in Karadzic's war crimes trial, an international court in The Hague announced on Friday. In its decision to appoint Harvey, t...

[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Russian Orthodox priest gunned down in own church
Moscow - A prominent priest in the Russian Orthodox church has been shot dead in his own Moscow church, reported the Interfax news agency on Friday. Daniil Syssoyev, 35, was known as an active missionary. Authorities have not ruled out religious moti...

[Posted on : 2009-11-20 ] Category : [ Religion (General) ]

Pelosi: No quick end to US travel ban to Cuba
Washington - Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, said Thursday she expected no quick action on ending the United States' decades-long travel ban with Cuba. House Speaker Pelosi said it was one of a long list of legislat...

[Posted on : 2009-11-19 ] Category : [ Travel (General) ]

 

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