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IMF chief in U-turn as Venezuela cancels Haiti debt
Wednesday 27 January 2010 Printable Email International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has made a U-turn on the US-dominated financial institution's attempt to burden earthquake-devastated Haiti with another 0 million (£61.7m) of debt.
OBAMA ON ENERGY
Pitching his energy and climate agenda to a joint session of Congress last February, President Obama warned of the "ravages of climate change" and asked the House and Senate to send him legislation to send me legislation "that places a market-based cap on
Unemployment is down to 2.46 million
Unemployment fell for the first time in 18 months, according to the Office for National Statistics. Under the Labour Force Survey (LFS) count, unemployment fell by 7,000 to 2.46 million in the three months to November.
KEEP OLD COAL PLANTS OPEN SAYS E.ON
Mothballed coal plants are vital back-up, says Paul Golby chief executive of E.ON UK
UK “OVER ACHIEVED” ON CARBON CUTS – MILIBAND
ENERGY and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said today that Britain is on course to over-achieve on its carbon reduction budgets, with an estimated 36 per cent cut on 1990 levels projected by 2020.
These cuts are the pits
Hundreds of thousands of retired miners and their widows face pension cuts because the Government is imposing miserly new rules.
Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith wants private pensions to rise in line with the Consumer Prices Index rather than the Retail Prices Index. It doesn’t soun
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Fraud 'a cover for hurting the poor'
Trade unionists have accused David Cameron of using benefit fraud as "cover for swingeing cuts to genuine claimants."
Speaking last week Mr Cameron described benefit fraud and error as "the one area of ingrained waste that outranks all others."
However the TUC said that, while all fraud should b
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These cuts won't hurt a bit. Unless you're young or poor
This is only the appetiser, not even the first course, just the amuse-bouche to whet the appetite. With a hint of lip-smacking relish for the coming cuts, George Osborne and David Laws today sharpened their knives. There were no expressions of regret, not even a crocodile tear or two for the real
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INDIA' RELIANCE ON COAL
India claimed to be a front-runner among developing nations for emissions disclosure today with its first national survey of greenhouse gases in more than a decade.
The government study based on 2007 data showed a sharp increase in industrial activity since the last assessment in 1994 has made Indi
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