£20000000000 - that's the cost to the taxpayer of the Afghanistan war
Mirror.co.uk
The huge sum is revealed on the eve of a Nato summit where David Cameron will finalise the 2014 withdrawal deadline. The operation cost taxpayers £17.3billion to March 2012, official figures due to be released this summer reveal.
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Extradited criminal gets life for smuggling
Irish Times
AT ITS peak in the 1990s, Lai Changxing's smuggling empire transported chemicals, cooking oil, tobacco and cars. He had hundreds of police, customs officers and government officials on his payroll in the southern port city of Xiamen that he ran like ...
Chinese Tycoon Gets Life Sentence for SmugglingNew York Times
China Sentences Ex-Fugitive to Life in PrisonWall Street Journal
China sentences ex-fugitive Lai Changxing to life in prison for leading $3B ...Washington Post
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Chicago protesters break away from nurses' rally
The Associated Press
By NOMAAN MERCHANT, AP – 1 minute ago CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of protesters broke away from a large rally and began marching through Chicago streets Friday, taunting police and shouting about everything from bank bailouts to nuclear power — a prelude ...
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Afghanistan fundraising goal elusive before NATO summitReuters
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Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi to address parliament on June visit
The Guardian
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace prize winner, is to visit Britain next month in her first trip outside the south Asian state for 24 years. She will address both houses of parliament as a guest of the British ...
Burma's Suu Kyi to visit Dublin as part of Europe tripIrish Times
US firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspendedReuters
Myanmar welcomes easing of US economic sanctionsBusinessWeek
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Spectre of bailout looms as banking turbulence goes on
The Independent
Further indications of the ultra-volatile future facing Spain's banking sector emerged yesterday when shares in the country's fourth-largest lender, the part-nationalised Bankia, bounced back abruptly with an increase of nigh-on 26 per cent during ...
Rising level of bad loans adds to Spain's economic crisisIrish Times
UK fears sound of a Greek exitFinancial Times
FOREX-Euro rallies from 4-month low versus dollarReuters
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Olympics-Flame for London Games arrives in Britain
Reuters
(Adds details, quotes) * Princess Anne brings flame onto UK soil * Beckham lights cauldron By Alan Baldwin CULDROSE, England, May 18 (Reuters) - The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off ...
Olympic flame arrives in Britain for 2012 torch relayTimes of India
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WSJ: UN Nuclear Watchdog To Make Surprise Vist To Iran Sunday
Wall Street Journal
By David Crawford And Jay Solomon VIENNA (Dow Jones)--The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency will make an unscheduled visit to Iran on Sunday, the agency said in an announcement that spurred speculation that Tehran may finally agree to ...
Poll: Most countries opposed to a nuclear IranJerusalem Post
U.N. nuclear agency chief to visit TehranSalt Lake Tribune
Progress reported in talks with nuclear bodyIrish Times
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Obama, Hollande agree on much - but not Afghanistan
Reuters
By Caren Bohan and Elizabeth Pineau | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New French President Francois Hollande told President Barack Obama on Friday that he will stick by his pledge to withdraw France's troops from Afghanistan at year's end, a note of discord in ...
Hollande Meets Obama, Reaffirms Early Afghanistan WithdrawalVoice of America
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Hollande sticking to Afghanistan withdrawal by year's endCNN International
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Syrian Attacks Continue as Mass Protests Spread
Voice of America
UN observers from China at at hotel in Damascus before heading to areas where protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have been taking place, May 18, 2012. UN observers from China at at hotel in Damascus before heading to areas where protests ...
Largest protests yet in Syria's biggest cityThe Associated Press
Syrian forces open fire on protesters in AleppoThe Independent
Canada tightens Syria sanctions, targets luxury goodsAFP
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34 dead in Vietnam after overcrowded bus plunges into river
National Post
HANOI, Vietnam — A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents. The 50-seat coach lost control and ripped through the bridge's ...
34 killed, 21 injured in central Vietnam bus accidentXinhua
Vietnam bus plunges off bridge into river; 34 deadThe Associated Press
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