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European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on Thursday said the interest rate on the upcoming 12-month long-term refinancing operation on Dec...Trichet said the central bank was prepared to begin gradually phasing out special liquidity measures...
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Reid (D-Nev.) " A withdrawal date only emboldens al-Qaeda and the Taliban, while dispiriting our Afghan partners and making it less likely that they will risk their lives to take our side in this fight ." -- Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), ranking Republican...
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This before an audience of young men and women, some of them decorated veterans, perfectly squared away in their West Point uniforms...I thought about the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, where today some 239,000 troops serve for all of us. And of...
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says he doesn’t support Appropriations Chairman David Obey’s (D-Wis.) proposal for a war surtax to pay for the surge in Afghanistan. At least not yet. “I’m going to talk to Obey about it,” Hoyer said in his...
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That will be the European Central Bank’s leitmotif as it presses ahead this week with plans to unwind exceptional measures taken to combat the economic crisis. The Frankfurt-based ECB will leave its main interest rate unchanged at 1 per cent. However,...
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Barack Obama is expected to send 34,000 more US troops to Afghanistan when he unveils his long-awaited strategy for the Afghan conflict next Tuesday, US media reports said today. The Politico website said the US president would make a prime time address...
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But what the White House sees as a necessary, thoughtful process to arrive at the best-possible decision on an eight-year conflict is seen as dangerous "dithering" [delay] by Republican legislators. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee spoke on Fox News...
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The surprise announcement of tougher standards for asset-backed securities used as collateral highlighted how far the ECB is planning its “exit strategy” to dismantle measures taken after last year’s collapse of Lehman Brothers. These included expanding...
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Belgian colony since 1999 to help the government of Congo as it struggles to reestablish state control over the vast central African nation following a 1998-2003 war and humanitarian disaster which have killed an estimated 5.4 million people. "It's partly...
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For eight long months President Obama has been wrestling with the request of his commanding general in Afghanistan for at least 40,000 more American troops to reinforce the 68,000 already there alongside the 50,000 NATO soldiers. Virtually...
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