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News: United Nations fails to agree landmark arms-trade treaty Colorado movie house massacre suspect was under psychiatrist's care U.S. lets Myanmar import ban expire, at least temporarily Senator warns China on trade in review of oil deal Cayman Islands proposes income tax on foreign workers Spain discusses state bailout; ECB seen writing off Greek debt Turkey urges steps as shelling of Aleppo continues CNN chief Walton to leave ratings-starved network Obama signs Israel security bill ahead of Romney visit U.N. rights chief urges Syria fighters to spare civilians Congo wants U.N. tasked with hunting eastern rebels Top Venezuelan embassy official killed in Kenya Sudan makes concession in oil talks but no deal in sight Pirates kill Eni oil worker in Nigeria: military Georgia freezes opposition footballer's bank funds Injured Mali leader flies home, faces challenges Turkey's Erdogan: cannot stay "spectator" over Aleppo Four arrested over Ivory Coast U.N. peacekeeper killings Romania's suspended president asks voters to boycott vote Mexican navy captures regional boss of Zetas drug cartel Former aide to Canadian PM charged with influence-peddling Angola opposition targets inequality in election bid Rebels hold Syria loyalists in Aleppo, Idlib Dutch, British photographers freed in Syria Bulgarian opposition demands vote on nuclear plant Polish PM appoints new agriculture minister U.N. chief demands Syria renounce chemical weapons Saudi Arabia says arrests "troublemakers" in Eastern Province Turkey won't allow "terrorist" groups at Syria border: FM Assad's fall only matter of time: former U.N. Syria mission chief Syrian assault on Aleppo "utterly unacceptable": UK Violence makes ICRC move some foreign staff out of Syria Annan pushing Syria mediation despite being "scapegoat": source Russian forces kill eight suspected militants in Dagestan Former Milosevic aide takes power in Serbia, EU uneasy Syrian rebels say gain ground as grip of army weakens Ukrainian minister says Tymoshenko completes medical treatment Polish hikers found dead, lightning strike suspected Jobs crisis first big test for firebrand French leftist Nigeria says will pay valid fuel subsidy claims United Nations fails to agree landmark arms-trade treaty Fri,27 Jul 2012 04:45 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Delegations from around the world failed on Friday to agree a landmark U.N. arms-trade treaty to regulate the more than $60 billion industry, opting for further talks and a possible U.N. General Assembly vote by the end of the year, diplomats said. More than 170 countries have spent the past month in New York negotiating a treaty, which needed to be adopted by consensus, so any one country effectively could have vetoed a deal. Instead, no decision was taken on a draft treaty. ... Full Story Top Colorado movie house massacre suspect was under psychiatrist's care Fri,27 Jul 2012 04:33 PM PDT Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - A former University of Colorado graduate student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a Denver-area movie theater last week had been under the care of a psychiatrist who was part of a campus threat-assessment team. The disclosure came in court documents filed on Friday by lawyers for James Holmes, 24, who is accused of opening fire last Friday on a packed showing of the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," in the Denver suburb of Aurora. ... Full Story Top U.S. lets Myanmar import ban expire, at least temporarily Fri,27 Jul 2012 04:26 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. ban on imports from Myanmar expired on Thursday, at least temporarily, because of a clash between lawmakers over funding for an African trade measure. The two issues are tied together in a bill that has the backing of the Obama administration and that lawmakers hope to pass before their month long August recess. The White House has eased some sanctions on Myanmar, also known by its colonial name of Burma, in response to economic and political reforms. It does not favor lifting the import ban yet. ... Full Story Top Senator warns China on trade in review of oil deal Fri,27 Jul 2012 04:23 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Charles Schumer said on Friday that the United States should use a bid by China's state-run CNOOC for Canadian oil company Nexen Inc as a chance to take China to task for long-standing trade and investment issues. Schumer, who has made criticism of China's economic policies a hallmark of his career, laid out a powerful political warning that many U.S. lawmakers expect China to open its doors to reciprocal investments, even as he made it clear that he does not object to CNOOC's $15.1 billion bid on its merits. ... Full Story Top Cayman Islands proposes income tax on foreign workers Fri,27 Jul 2012 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - Known as a tax haven for the mega rich around the world, the Cayman Islands is proposing the unthinkable: a direct tax on expatriates to help fix the budget woes of the British territory. The proposal - called a "community enhancement fee" and unprecedented in the island's history - is effectively a 10 percent payroll tax on all foreign workers earning income over US$24,000 in the Cayman Islands. ... Full Story Top Spain discusses state bailout; ECB seen writing off Greek debt Fri,27 Jul 2012 03:31 PM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain has at last conceded it may need a state bailout and policymakers are considering writing down Greek debt to their central banks, European officials said on Friday, as markets anticipated radical new action to pull the continent out of its debt maelstrom. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who on Thursday pledged to do whatever was necessary to protect the euro zone from collapse, is also set to meet Germany's Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann to discuss a raft of other measures to address the region's crisis, according to a Bloomberg report. ... Full Story Top Turkey urges steps as shelling of Aleppo continues Fri,27 Jul 2012 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad's artillery continued to pound rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo in preparation for an onslaught on Syria's biggest city, while neighboring Turkey called for international steps to deal with the military build-up. Opposition sources said the shelling was an attempt to drive fighters inside Aleppo from their strongholds and to stop their comrades outside the city from resupplying them. "They are shelling at random to instill a state of terror," said Anwar Abu Ahed, a rebel commander outside the city. ... Full Story Top CNN chief Walton to leave ratings-starved network Fri,27 Jul 2012 02:42 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton said on Friday he is leaving the once-dominant cable news network, which has been plagued by low ratings in recent years. Phil Kent, chief executive of Turner Broadcasting, will begin a search for a new president, the network said. Walton is departing on December 31. "CNN needs new thinking. That starts with a new leader who brings a different perspective, different experiences and a new plan," said Walton, 54, CNN's president since 2003. ... Full Story Top Obama signs Israel security bill ahead of Romney visit Fri,27 Jul 2012 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed a measure on Friday to strengthen U.S.-Israeli military ties, a move that could score points with American Jewish voters on the eve of Republican rival Mitt Romney's highly publicized visit to Israel. Obama also used the White House bill-signing ceremony to announce he was releasing $70 million in approved funding for Israel's short-range rocket shield known as "Iron Dome," a project backed strongly by the powerful U.S. pro-Israel lobby. ... Full Story Top U.N. rights chief urges Syria fighters to spare civilians Fri,27 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay urged both Syrian government forces and rebels on Friday to spare civilians in Aleppo, voicing deep concern at the "likelihood of an imminent major confrontation" in the city reminiscent of other deadly assaults. A "discernable pattern" had emerged as President Bashar al-Assad's forces attempt - using intense shelling, tank fire and door-to-door searches - to clear areas of Syria's biggest urban centers they say are occupied by insurgents, she said. ... Full Story Top Congo wants U.N. tasked with hunting eastern rebels Fri,27 Jul 2012 01:57 PM PDT Reuters - KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday it wanted the mandate of U.N. peacekeepers strengthened so they could help to eliminate rebel groups in its lawless east, as called for by regional leaders seeking to end the nation's cycles of conflict. The statement came after Britain joined the United States and the Netherlands as donors that have cut or suspended aid to Rwanda after a U.N. report said Kigali was backing rebels in fighting that has displaced 470,000 since April. Rwanda has rejected the report, saying donors were acting on "flimsy evidence". ... Full Story Top Top Venezuelan embassy official killed in Kenya Fri,27 Jul 2012 01:18 PM PDT Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - The head of Venezuela's embassy in Kenya was strangled to death at her official residence in the capital Nairobi, police said on Friday. Nairobi police said they believed the charge d'affaires and acting ambassador, Olga Fonseca, was killed at the mansion, which is surrounded by an electric fence and located in the exclusive Runda neighborhood. "We received reports that she was found dead in the house on her bed. What we have seen is that she has been strangled," Anthony Kibuchi, Nairobi area police commander, told reporters outside the home. ... Full Story Top Sudan makes concession in oil talks but no deal in sight Fri,27 Jul 2012 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan said on Friday it had made price concessions in oil talks with newly-independent neighbor South Sudan, but the two countries remained far apart on a deal to resolve disputes that have already brought them to the brink of war. A Sudanese oil ministry official said Khartoum had lowered the amount it wanted to charge to transport Southern crude through its territory - in a bid to settle one of a long list of arguments between the rivals. South Sudan split away from Sudan last year as part of a peace deal that ended decades of civil war. ... Full Story Top Pirates kill Eni oil worker in Nigeria: military Fri,27 Jul 2012 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Pirates killed at least one oil worker in an attack on a boat owned by Italian energy firm Eni's local subsidiary Agip in Nigeria's Niger Delta on Friday, the military said. "The boat conveying some staff of Agip was attacked by sea robbers and one of the staff of the company died when he was attempting to escape and drowned," Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesman for Nigeria's military joint task force, told Reuters. Two other Agip staff were missing after the attack in the Tarabora creek in Bayelsa state, said Nwachukwu. ... Full Story Top Georgia freezes opposition footballer's bank funds Fri,27 Jul 2012 12:42 PM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - A Georgian court froze the bank accounts of retired footballer and opposition leader Kakha Kaladze in a money-laundering probe on Friday that opponents foes of President Mikhail Saakhshvili's government say is a campaign of legal harassment. The football star, who won the Champions League twice with Italy's AC Milan, will stand against the ruling party in October parliamentary polls as part of a newly formed Georgian Dream coalition led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. Ivanishvili, 56, whose fortune is estimated at $6. ... Full Story Top Injured Mali leader flies home, faces challenges Fri,27 Jul 2012 12:39 PM PDT Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's interim president returned on Friday from weeks convalescing abroad after he was beaten up by a mob, facing pressure to form a new government and authorize a foreign military intervention against rebels in the north. Mali needs outside support to recover from twin crises sparked by a March coup in the capital that precipitated the rebel takeover of its northern zones, occupied by Islamists dominated by al Qaeda's North African wing, AQIM. The head of the U.S. ... Full Story Top Turkey's Erdogan: cannot stay "spectator" over Aleppo Fri,27 Jul 2012 12:27 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - International steps must be taken to deal with President Bashar al-Assad's military build-up around the Syrian city of Aleppo and his government's threat to use chemical weapons, Turkish Prime Minster Recep Erdogan said on Friday. "There is a build-up in Aleppo and the recent statements, with respect to the use of weapons of mass destruction, are actions that we cannot remain an observer or spectator to," he said at a joint news conference in London with British Prime Minister David Cameron. ... Full Story Top Four arrested over Ivory Coast U.N. peacekeeper killings Fri,27 Jul 2012 12:02 PM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Four men have been arrested in connection with the ambush killings in Ivory Coast of seven U.N. peacekeepers on its border with Liberia, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Friday. An adviser to Ouattara said the four had been arrested in Liberia and would be extradited to Ivory Coast to stand trial. The seven United Nations peacekeepers, all from Niger, were killed on June 8 when their patrol came under fire near the town of Tai, close to the porous border, in what Ivorian authorities said was a cross-border raid. ... Full Story Top Romania's suspended president asks voters to boycott vote Fri,27 Jul 2012 11:54 AM PDT Reuters - BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's suspended president Traian Basescu urged Romanians on Friday to boycott a July 29 referendum that polls show will remove him from office. Basescu had initially urged Romanians to vote to defeat what he called a coup d'etat, but his stance gradually shifted this week when he and his Democrat Liberal allies said they were increasingly concerned about the possibility of electoral fraud. ... Full Story Top Mexican navy captures regional boss of Zetas drug cartel Fri,27 Jul 2012 11:25 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico arrested one of the top traffickers of the Zetas drug cartel accused of overseeing the feared gangs' operations across the south of the country, the navy said on Friday. Naval forces captured on Thursday Mauricio Guizar, known as "El Amarillo," in a hotel in small town in the central state of Puebla where he was holed up with 20 grenades, an anti-tank bazooka and a submachine gun, the navy said in a statement. Guizar is implicated in the killing of four soldiers in the Gulf state of Veracruz in April. ... Full Story Top Former aide to Canadian PM charged with influence-peddling Fri,27 Jul 2012 11:21 AM PDT Reuters - OTTAWA (Reuters) - A former top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was charged with influence-peddling on Friday, a move that could embarrass a government that came to power stressing accountability. Police said Bruce Carson was "alleged to have accepted a commission for a third party in connection with a business matter relating to the government." Carson's lawyer declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. ... Full Story Top Angola opposition targets inequality in election bid Fri,27 Jul 2012 10:57 AM PDT Reuters - LISBON (Reuters) - Angola's main opposition party, UNITA, accused President Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Friday of giving a small elite access to vast resources while leaving most Angolans in misery, and pledged to fight poverty if it wins an election next month. UNITA unveiled its electoral platform ahead of the August 31 national election to select lawmakers and a president. It will be only the second such vote in Angola, Africa's No. 2 oil producer after Nigeria, since the end of a 27-year civil war a decade ago. ... Full Story Top Rebels hold Syria loyalists in Aleppo, Idlib Fri,27 Jul 2012 09:53 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels have detained scores of Syrian officers, soldiers and pro-government militiamen this week in Idlib province and in the city of Aleppo, where a major battle is anticipated, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. A video posted on YouTube showed rebels with Kalashnikovs in Aleppo from "The Tawheed (monotheism) Brigade" guarding the detainees who were lined up in four groups on a school playground. An off-camera voice said they had been detained in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city. ... Full Story Top Dutch, British photographers freed in Syria Fri,27 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT Reuters - AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two photographers, one Dutch and the other British, who were taken hostage last week by al Qaeda-linked militants in northern Syria, have been released, the Netherlands Association for Journalists said on Friday. Jeroen Oerlemans and British colleague John Cantlie were detained on July 17 while working near the Syrian border with Turkey, it said. Oerlemans was being treated for a gunshot wound suffered in an escape attempt. The pair were released on Thursday after their fixer escaped and contacted Syrian rebel forces, it said. ... Full Story Top Bulgarian opposition demands vote on nuclear plant Fri,27 Jul 2012 09:06 AM PDT Reuters - SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's opposition Socialists on Friday demanded a referendum to challenge the government's decision to abandon construction of a nuclear power plant, an increasingly divisive issue in the run up to next year's parliamentary election. The Socialists submitted more than 770,000 signatures to parliament calling for the referendum - well above the half million they need to force a plebiscite. But analysts said the government would likely resist efforts to revive a national debate on the fate of the planned Russian-built 2,000 megawatt Belene plant. ... Full Story Top Polish PM appoints new agriculture minister Fri,27 Jul 2012 09:04 AM PDT Reuters - WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk named Stanislaw Kalemba, head of parliament's agriculture committee, as new farm minister on Friday, after the previous one resigned in a corruption scandal. Marek Sawicki stepped down this month after a television station broadcast a secretly-recorded video that pointed to possible irregularities inside a Polish agency that distributes EU farm subsidies. The video was the biggest scandal to hit Tusk's governing coalition since he was elected for a second term in office last year. ... Full Story Top U.N. chief demands Syria renounce chemical weapons Fri,27 Jul 2012 08:31 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday said he was "deeply" concerned about reports of the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria, and demanded the government state it would not use them "under any circumstances". "I remain deeply concerned about the reports of the possible use of chemical weapons," he told reporters, citing one report in which Syria said it would use such weapons if it was attacked by foreign powers. "I demand .... ... Full Story Top Saudi Arabia says arrests "troublemakers" in Eastern Province Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:58 AM PDT Reuters - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said it arrested several "troublemakers" in its oil-rich Eastern Province on Friday while an activist said police wounded and detained protestors there after a peaceful demonstration. Among those arrested was Mohamed al-Shakhouri, one of 23 people wanted by the security forces, the official Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying. The activist, who said he witnessed the unrest but declined to be named for fear of retaliation from the authorities, told Reuters that protestors marched for three hours in Qatif city. ... Full Story Top Turkey won't allow "terrorist" groups at Syria border: FM Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday Turkey would not allow what he called "terrorist" groups like the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) or al Qaeda to establish a presence in Syria near the Turkish border. Davutoglu did not specify what steps Turkey could take to prevent activities by such groups along its 911-km (566-mile) frontier with Syria, which is in the throes of 16-month crackdown on a popular uprising that has claimed 17,000 lives. "We will not permit a terrorist group, whether it is the PKK or al Qaeda, to set up at our border. ... Full Story Top Assad's fall only matter of time: former U.N. Syria mission chief Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Reuters - OSLO (Reuters) - It is just a matter of time before the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad falls because its use of massive force is mobilizing insurgents, General Robert Mood, the former head of the U.N. monitoring mission in Syria, said on Friday. "In my opinion it is only a matter of time before a regime that is using such heavy military power and disproportional violence against the civilian population is going to fall," the Norwegian general, who left Damascus on July 19, told Reuters. ... Full Story Top Syrian assault on Aleppo "utterly unacceptable": UK Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - The Syrian government assault on the city of Aleppo is an "utterly unacceptable escalation" of the conflict, Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Friday. "I am deeply concerned by reports that the Syrian government is amassing its troops and tanks around Aleppo, and has already begun a vicious assault on the city and its civilian population," Hague said in a statement. "This utterly unacceptable escalation of the conflict could lead to a devastating loss of civilian life and a humanitarian disaster," he added. ... Full Story Top Violence makes ICRC move some foreign staff out of Syria Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is evacuating some expatriate aid workers from Syria due to the worsening security situation, moving them temporarily to Beirut, a spokesman said on Friday. Such withdrawals are rarely announced by the independent agency, whose staff have crossed front lines throughout the 16-month-old conflict. The ICRC's move follows a partial evacuation by U.N. aid workers earlier this week. ... Full Story Top Annan pushing Syria mediation despite being "scapegoat": source Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:48 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - International envoy Kofi Annan is still trying to forge a political solution to the Syria crisis despite being made a scapegoat for the failure of the two sides to agree, a source close to the mediation effort said on Friday. Annan and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were meeting in London on Friday to discuss the future of mediation efforts and the U.N. observer mission, and the Syria "Action Group" may meet again soon, but not at ministerial level, the source said. ... Full Story Top Russian forces kill eight suspected militants in Dagestan Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:37 AM PDT Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian security forces killed eight suspected militants in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan after storming a house where they were hiding with women and children, Russian anti-terrorism officials and law enforcement sources said on Friday. More than a decade after federal forces toppled a separatist government in a war in Chechnya, Russia is still struggling to contain an Islamic insurgency across its mainly Muslim Caucasus mountains region. ... Full Story Top Former Milosevic aide takes power in Serbia, EU uneasy Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:21 AM PDT Reuters - BELGRADE (Reuters) - The former spokesman of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic took power in Serbia on Friday, telling Europe and the Balkans to forget the past and not fear the return of a political alliance that once led the country to war with NATO. After 12 hours of heated debate, lawmakers in the 250-seat Serbian parliament voted 142 to 72 to endorse Socialist Party leader Ivica Dacic as prime minister at the helm of a coalition with nationalists. ... Full Story Top Syrian rebels say gain ground as grip of army weakens Fri,27 Jul 2012 07:03 AM PDT Reuters - REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Since he joined a poorly armed, ragtag rebel group, Syrian fighter Radwan al-Saaour has been mostly on the run, hiding in the woods of Idlib province near Turkey as loyalist forces overran town after town killing people at will. But his fortunes, and those of the armed resistance movement against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, have changed dramatically in the last few weeks. Last month, Saaour celebrated repelling an army attack on the town of Kafr Karmin by setting a Russian-made army tank on fire. ... Full Story Top Ukrainian minister says Tymoshenko completes medical treatment Fri,27 Jul 2012 06:50 AM PDT Reuters - KIEV (Reuters) - Former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, whose jailing for abuse of power soured Ukraine's relations with the European Union, has completed her medical treatment at a local hospital, Healthcare Minister Raisa Bohatyryova was quoted as saying on Friday. Treatment for a back complaint has kept Tymoshenko, President Viktor Yanukovich's main rival, out of jail for almost three months, and Bohatyryova's statement did not say whether the authorities would now return her to prison. "An international commission which includes German and Ukrainian doctors ... ... Full Story Top Polish hikers found dead, lightning strike suspected Fri,27 Jul 2012 06:25 AM PDT Reuters - WARSAW (Reuters) - Four hikers were killed, probably by a lightning strike, on a tourist track in Poland's Pieniny mountain range, police told local media. The four, a married couple in their 50s, their daughter and her boyfriend, were reported missing on Wednesday evening when they did not return from a walk in the mountains on Poland's border with Slovakia. The hikers, all from Warsaw, were found dead early on Friday. ... Full Story Top Jobs crisis first big test for firebrand French leftist Fri,27 Jul 2012 05:58 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Arnaud Montebourg, a tousle-haired leftist with a fiery streak, endeared himself to French TV viewers last year when he used a debate among presidential contenders to demand an end to the jobs pain he says globalization has inflicted on France. Nine months on, as the grandly titled Industrial Renewal Minister, Montebourg is grappling with a swathe of layoffs as the new Socialist government is put to the test over its election pledge to bring down unemployment. ... Full Story Top Nigeria says will pay valid fuel subsidy claims Fri,27 Jul 2012 05:57 AM PDT Reuters - ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's finance ministry said on Friday it would pay valid subsidies to fuel traders and urged unions not to strike over outstanding payments to ensure motor fuel supplies were not disrupted. Two fuel import unions have threatened to strike this week over unpaid subsidies, risking fuel shortages in Africa's most populous nation. "The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has directed the Debt Management Office to pay marketers with verified claims as soon as supporting Sovereign Debt Notes are provided," an emailed statement from the finance ministry said on Friday. ... Full Story Top

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