Rattner settles with Cuomo for $10 million


Steven Rattner, Former Head of U.S. Treasury Department’s Auto Task Force in New York, November 19, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Brendan McDermid

Former Obama administration auto industry czar Steven Rattner agreed to pay $10 million to resolve lawsuits by New York’s attorney general over kickbacks allegedly paid to do business with the state’s pension fund.

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Euro has 1-in-5 chance of lasting decade: UK think-tank

The euro currency area has only a one-in-five chance of surviving in its current form over the next 10 years because of competitive imbalances between its members, a leading British think tank said on Friday.

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Largest natural gas reserve discovered in Israel worth approximately $95 billion


An oil rig (illustrative)
Photo by: AP

The reserve, Leviathon, is the largest amount of natural gas discovered in the world in the last decade and is located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, about 130 kilometers offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery.

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‘Turkey has no right to talk about international law’

PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias yesterday hit back at Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s comments on the Cyprus-Israel maritime agreement saying there was nothing in international law to justify his level of “cynicism and arrogance”.

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WikiLeaks show US frustrated with Egypt military

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military, the biggest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel, is in decline, according to American diplomats, who blame the Arab nation’s top brass for failing to modernize and adapt to deal with new threats.

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Iraq Christians bury their dead after more attacks

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Christians buried their dead on Friday after a string of apparently coordinated attacks using bombs and rockets hit their dwindling community, killing two people and injuring 13 others

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Syria helped orchestrate 2006 Mohammed cartoon riots, WikiLeaks cables reveal

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reports that the Syrian government was active in organizing the riots that broke out in 2006 following the publication of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

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A World in Crisis

What the thirties tell us about today.

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China Central Bank absorbing substantial amounts of gold without disrupting market

China’s official gold reserves are seen to be being effectively held at whatever level the country’s government thinks is of political and financial advantage.

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Bailed-Out Banks Slip Toward Failure

Nearly 100 U.S. banks that got bailout funds from the federal government show signs they are in jeopardy of failing.

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