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Heritage study co-author wrote paper on ‘substantially lower’ IQ of Hispanic, other immigrants
Posted by admin on May 8th, 2013
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No Comments »Cash airlift helped avert Greek bank run during debt crisis: paper
Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2013
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece's central bank had billions of euros of banknotes shipped in from other central banks to avert a bank run during the country's debt crisis as depositors withdrew their money, newspaper To Vima reported on Sunday. Fears the debt-laden country might ditch the euro and return to the drachma led Greeks to [...]
Italy’s centre-left rules out grand coalition: paper
Posted by admin on March 1st, 2013
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy's centre-left will not form any grand coalition with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right group after inconclusive parliamentary elections earlier this week, left-wing leader Pier Luigi Bersani said in an interview on Friday. "I want to spell it out clearly: the idea of a grand coalition does not exist and will never exist," Bersani [...]
Obama draft bill would clear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants: paper
Posted by admin on February 17th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A draft of a White House immigration proposal would allow illegal immigrants to become legal permanent residents within eight years, USA Today reported on Saturday. The plan, obtained by the newspaper, also would provide for more security funding and require businesses to check the immigration status of new hires within four years. [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Bill, Citizenship, Clear, draft, Illegal, Immigrants, Obama, Paper, Path, Would No Comments »BaFin probes lenders Deutsche Bank over Euribor: paper
Posted by admin on January 28th, 2013
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German regulator BaFin has launched a special probe against four lenders including Deutsche Bank as part of an investigation into possible manipulation of the Europe Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor), the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Monday. A special probe is the most severe kind of investigation the regulator can launch against a [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: BaFin, Bank, Deutsche, Euribor, Lenders, Over, Paper, probes No Comments »France favors Lauvergeon as EADS board chief: paper
Posted by admin on January 27th, 2013
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande wants Anne Lauvergeon, former chief executive of French nuclear reactor maker Areva, to chair the board of European planemaker EADS , French Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche reported. The paper quotes a source close to the government as saying that Lauvergeon is "the choice of Francois Hollande [...]
Chinese anti-corruption drive nets Politburo member – paper
Posted by admin on January 27th, 2013
BEIJING (Reuters) – A senior Chinese official is under investigation, a Hong Kong newspaper reported at the weekend, in a case that could represent the first time a national political figure has been netted in China's anti-corruption drive. Li Jianguo, a member of the country's elite Politburo and the vice chairman of the national rubber-stamp [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: anticorruption, Chinese, Drive, Member, Nets, Paper, Politburo No Comments »Chinese paper at centre of censorship protests hits newsstands
Posted by admin on January 10th, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – The latest issue of a Chinese newspaper at the centre of anti-censorship protests appeared on newsstands in Beijing and Shanghai on Thursday as usual, but not its home city Guangzhou. Several journalists at the Southern Weekly, seen as a beacon of independent and in-depth reporting in China's highly controlled media, had [...]
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Posted by admin on January 8th, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will revise its defense policy and weapons purchase plan by December, the Yomiuri newspaper said on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's new government grapples with heightened tensions with neighbors China and North and South Korea. Japan's current defense policy, compiled two years ago under a Democratic Party government, calls for [...]
