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A Lloyds TSB bank sign is seen outside a branch in London, Tuesday July 31, 2007. Lloyds TSB Group said Tuesday that its Scottish Widows subsidiary has reached an agreement to sell Abbey Life Assurance Co. to Deutsche Bank AG for 977 million pounds (US$1.98 billion, euro1.4 billion) in cash. Lloyds TSB Group PLC (LYG) Tuesday also reported a 15% rise in first-half underlying pretax profit, paced by strong across-the-board performan

Lloyds pays US$350 million to United States in sanctions case

Stockhouse

WASHINGTON - Lloyds TSB Bank PLC has agreed to forfeit US$350 million for helping customers skirt U.S. sanctions on business transactions with Sudan, Iran and Libya. The bank, headquartered in London, admitted responsibility for criminal conduct under a deferred prosecution deal filed Friday in federal court in Washington. In announcing the...

photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth

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Solve the Gaza problem at its roots

Daily Star Lebanon

By Rami G. Khouri Daily Star staff Saturday, January 10, 2009...

Israel is profiting from Bush's final days in office

Daily Star Lebanon

By Alvaro Vasconcelos Commentary by Saturday, January 10, 2009...

You can stop pretending to be Blair now, Dave

The Times

It sometimes happens that people or a party struggle to find a voice. They may not lack an...

Iraq is 'not a mess'

Sgt. Flavio D. Mendes, rifle team leader, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 5, questions local citizens in Fallujah during Operation Matador cg1 wnhires

News24

Washington - Vice President Dick Cheney, warning against impulsive US action in Iraq, says that whether the struggling nation backslides into a cycle of violence partly depends on how President-elect Barack Obama decides to pull out American forces....

photo: US DoD file/Cpl. Brian Reimers

UN calls for immediate Gaza truce, attacks go on

Palestinians inspect homes destroyed near the border with Egypt after an Israeli air strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Khaleej Times

GAZA - Israel pushed ahead with its two-week-old offensive in the Gaza Strip, ignoring a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. As bombs blasted the coastal enclave for a 14th day, senior Israeli ministers met to consider...

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

11 days to inauguration: Obama to Congress: Act now

In this Dec. 13, 2007, photo, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks as Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., listens during the Des Moines Register Democratic Presidential Debate in Johnston, Iowa.

Newsday

President-elect warned yesterday that the United States risks sinking deeper into an economic crisis without an infusion of government spending and a cut in tax rates and urged Congress to act quickly on a stimulus package that may total $775...

photo: AP / Charlie Neibergall

EU gas transit delegation to arrive in Kiev

José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, and Vladimír Spidla, Member of the EC in charge of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, receive Vaclav Havel, former President of Czech Republic . ula1

RBC News

RBC, 09.01.2009, Kiev 11:18:08.The European Union has accepted Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia...

photo: European Community, 2006

Glorious, painful anniversaries mark 2009

China's President Hu Jintao attends a meeting of leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, in Lima, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2

Seattle Times

BEIJING - Celebrations for the 60th anniversary of modern China's founding are nearly 10 months off, but newspapers are full of stories about the grand military parade in Tiananmen Square. The parade Oct. 1 will be the first display of China's muscle...

photo: AP / Roberto Candia

Sri Lankan forces fighting for key rebel base

Sri Lankan soldiers patrol on a road to Madhu church at Madhu, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Sept. 16, 2008.

The News Tribune

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A senior military official says Sri Lankan troops are fighting heavy battles with the rebels over the key Elephant Pass base on the edge of the Jaffna peninsula. The official said that troops surrounded the base and entered it...

photo: AP / Gemunu Amarasinghe