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Global shares flat, dollar steady before Fed decision
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Equities and bond prices pulled lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it would maintain the pace of its bond buying and gave no explicit indication it was close to slowing the stimulus program. Fed officials cited further...Tags: Greenwich, Pakistan, Finland, The Associated Press, Vladimir Putin
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Italy's overcrowded prisons close to collapse
ReutersROME (Reuters) - Gazing at the glories of Rome from its best viewpoint on the Janiculum Hill, the cluster of old buildings immediately below and to the left look like yet another of the Holy City's hundreds of churches. The reality is less romantic. The...Tags: Civil Rights, Trials, Punishment, Justice and Rights, Prisons
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Dollar rebounds as U.S. jobs data shows economic resilience
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar on Friday recouped sharp losses posted the previous session after a government report showed reasonably healthy U.S. job creation in May, renewing expectations the Federal Reserve might scale back its massive asset...Tags: Banking, Gross Domestic Product, Economic Indicator, Bank of New York Company, Insurance
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Thousands watch murdered anti-Mafia priest beatified in Sicily
Reuters* Father Puglisi shot by Mafia in 1993 * Considered a martyr by Catholic church * Beatification is step before sainthood ROME, May 25 (Reuters) - A Sicilian priest gunned down by the Mafia twenty years ago outside his home in Palermo was beatified in a...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief, Francis I, Sicilian Mafia, Christianity
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Italy nominates youngest prime minister in years
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.ROME -- Italy turned the corner on two months of political stalemate Wednesday by nominating center-left leader Enrico Letta as prime minister after inconclusive elections in February left parties struggling to form a government. Letta, 46, is set to...Tags: Nelson Mandela, Iran, Mario Monti, Elections, Politics
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Riccardo Muti: Illnesses behind him, CSO director wraps up spring residency
"Any donkey can conduct, but to make music is difficult," Riccardo Muti told the young members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at an open rehearsal last week at Symphony Center. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director was quoting his famous...
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The Week Ahead: Suu Kyi sojourn, Thatcher farewell, Italy adrift
Testing the waters for a revitalized Asian alliance Now through Saturday, April 20: Democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to Japan this week is purportedly unofficial, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate probably has more clout than any...
Tags: Burma, Japan, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, China, United Kingdom
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Pope Benedict hailed by crowds, may be papal advisor in retirement
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI was given a rapturous reception by the public at a general audience Wednesday, and the Vatican said he may offer his successor advice on papal duties after he resigns at the end of the month. Benedict, 85, announced...
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Italian seismologists ordered to prison for not warning of quake risk
World NowSix Italian scientists and a government official were sentenced to six years in prison Monday for failing to warn residents in the city of L'Aquila of the risk of an impending earthquake that killed more than 300 people. Scientists around the world... -
Italy's (unelected) prime minister hints he might stay on
World NowMario Monti, Italy's unelected prime minister, hinted Thursday that he might stay on past elections next year despite having insisted he would step down. Monti has been trying to implement unpopular economic and labor reforms in Italy, whose economy has... -
Daniel Barenboim conducts Israeli-Arab orchestra for Pope
Pope Benedict XVI attended a classical concert Wednesday that doubled as a political event in which the leader of the Catholic Church called for peace in the Middle East. Conductor Daniel Barenboim led members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a...
Tags: Culture, Music Industry, Richard Wagner, Germany, Concerts
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Britain, Italy at odds over failed hostage-rescue mission
World NowItaly complained that it was not informed of a joint British-Nigeria rescue mission to free two hostages held by suspected Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. The two hostages, a Briton and an Italian, were both killed before they could be rescued....
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