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By Xiaoyi Shao and Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China`s housing inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in April in two years, driven by a jump in prices in Beijing and Shanghai, complicating the task of policymakers trying to cool the property sector while supporting economic expansion. Average new home prices rose 4.9 percent last month from a year ago, after a year-on-year increase of 3.6 percent in March, according to Reuters calculations from data released by the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS) on Saturday. The rise was the sharpest since April 2011. ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013 09:42 |
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An unsolved murder from 2011 is getting new attention in the wake of the marathon bombs.
Saturday, May 18, 2013 00:48 |
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Manu Ginobili isn`t hurt this time, and the upset won`t be so unusual if it happens.
Friday, May 17, 2013 21:32 |
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IRS officials knew two years ago that political groups were getting increased scrutiny.
Sunday, May 12, 2013 04:10 |
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MILAN (AP) The European auto industry may be showing the first signs of a slowdown in its sales free-fall, according to data from the European automaker`s association.
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:23 |
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Family Radio`s founder predicted Jesus would return and the world end on May 21, 2011.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 00:58 |
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By Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan`s foreign minister said on Friday neighbor South Sudan had promised him it would not let rebels operate across their shared border, defusing a row that had threatened a key oil deal. The countries, which fought one of Africa`s longest civil before a 2005 peace deal, agreed in March to resume cross-border crude exports and defuse tensions that have plagued them since South Sudan`s secession in 2011. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 19:48 |
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Dutch development minister Albert Gerard Koenders as U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African country. Ban said Aichatou Mindaoudou Souleymane of Niger would replace Koenders as head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast. Souleymane is currently deputy envoy for the African Union and U.N. peacekeeping mission in Darfur. Koenders was the Dutch minister for development cooperation between 2007 and 2010 before he took up the Ivory Coast role in 2011. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 18:49 |
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DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co shares on Friday topped their 2010 initial public offering price, which will help the automaker`s largest shareholder, the U.S. Treasury, pare its losses. GM shares broke above $33.00, the price in the November 2010 IPO, rising as high as $33.21 in morning trading. It is the first time the stock has surpassed $33 since May 2011. So far this year GM`s stock is up 14.5 percent. The run-up in the stock price could help Treasury, which provided GM with a $49.5 billion bailout, trim losses that will likely still total billions of dollars. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 15:49 |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bahraini security forces raided the house of top Shi`ite cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on Friday, the opposition said, an act likely to enrage the island`s majority Shi`ite population which is at loggerheads with its Sunni rulers. Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet has its base on Iran`s doorstep, has been in violent turmoil since Shi`ite-led pro-democracy protests erupted in 2011. Protests continue and often end in clashes between demonstrators and police. At least two people have died this year. ...
Friday, May 17, 2013 13:02 |
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