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Judge sets precedent in tackling corruption

Enrico Monfrini, a Geneva lawyer who acts for Abuja, said the demand for seizure of funds outside Switzerland was a legal first for the country, and marks a further step in efforts to tackle theft by corrupt rulers by going...

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Time to join the nuclear bandwagon

It's a little-known - and slightly ironic - fact that when Lehman Brothers exploded last year it did so as the proud owner of 500,000 pounds of yellowcake uranium: enough to make a nuclear bomb. Uranium’s appeal was as a...

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How much money is enough? | Robert Skidelsky

In 1930, Keynes predicted that by 2030, we'd be working a 15-hour week. But he underestimated our appetite for wealth The economic downturn has produced an explosion of popular anger against bankers' "greed" and their "obscene"...

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Chinese white weddings boost platinum

Chinese brides, who value platinum partly because it goes so well with a white wedding dress, are on course to snap up enough of the metal to make up for a fall in demand from the auto components industry

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Bets rise on rich country bond defaults

The mounting level of debt in the industrialised world is prompting a growing number of investors to use the derivatives market to bet on the chance of rich governments defaulting on bonds. The volume of activity in sovereign...

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Tories want army pull-out from Germany

LONDON, Nov 21 - Britain should withdraw its army from Germany so it can take on “expeditionary roles” elsewhere under a strategic Nato overhaul, the British opposition defence spokesman said in a newspaper interview on...

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Rendall Munroe could get world title shot after fifth Euro superbantamweight defence

Leicester binman Rendall Munroe's next contest could be for a world title after his hard-earned points win over Simone Maludrottu in Nottingham. By Gareth A Davies, Boxing and MMA Correspondent Promoter Frank Maloney believes...

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A gross insult to the people of Europe

The appointments of Baroness Ashton of Upholland as European High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and that of Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council are an insult to European democracy....

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Violence as Nick Griffin attends rally in Spain

Violence broke out a far-Right rally attended by Nick Griffin at the weekend on the anniversary of the death of Fascist dictator General Francisco Franco. The MEP and British national Party leader was a special guest at the...

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Norman may need to break up ITV to achieve growth

The new chairman of ITV must decide whether to break up and sell parts of the troubled broadcaster Archie Norman's appointment as ITV chairman has been well received and it didn't even get played out in the press beforehand....

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