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What is the Civil List?The Civil List pays for the Queen's expenditure as head of state. It covers everything from salaries and pensions for 300 staff (£10.3 million last year), entertaining world leaders, garden
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The world’s number one terrorist, who was shot dead in Pakistan this week, sought to modernize Afghan drug production, chief of Russia’s anti-drug agency Viktor Ivanov announced Thursday. The leader of Al
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China, Japan and South Korea have agreed to use their own national currencies in mutual trade. The announcement was made during a ministerial meeting in Hanoi. The sides released a joint declaration which says
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The University of Cape Town (UCT) and electronics giant Samsung have teamed up
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Four Russian top managers in the IT business are rated among the world’s 200 richest in that economic sector by the Forbes Magazine. They are Yury Milner, co-owner of the Mail.ru Group and DST Global, whose wealth
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British Petroleum will pay $25 million in civil penalties as part of a settlement with the US Justice Department over the 2006 pipeline spill in Alaska. BP was forced to curtail oil production after more than 757,000
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The proven reserves of the Caspian Sea shelf exceed 2.9 billion tons of oil and 3 trillion cubic metres of gas, says the Deputy Russian Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov. He was speaking during a meeting of the Russian Government Marine Board
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One of the main coordinators of international terrorists, al-Qaeda’s emissary Abdulla Kurd has been killed in Chechnya, as a result of a Russian forces’ operation. Reports say that Abdulla Kurd came to
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There are all grounds to charge Colonel Gaddafi with crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor General Luis Moreno Ocampo says. Mr. Moreno Ocampo is authorized by the UN’s
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The role of Africa in the new reality features prominently on the agenda of the World Economic Forum that’s due to get under way in Cape Town, South Africa, later today. Over 800 world and regional political and business leaders
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