| Fri, 27 Jan 2012 Iran hits back with oil embargo threat
| Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a trial of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran has warned it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies. | At the same time, the government in Teheran, grappl... | Iran hits back at EU with own oil embargo threat
| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a trial of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned on Friday it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies. EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and o... | Drugs, the teenager found murdered on the Queen's estate and how the Baltic Mafia is ...
| Alisa Dmitrijeva's body was found by a walker on New Year's Day in thick woodland on the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk | She strikes a pose for the camera, her bright eyes shining and a smile playing on her lips. | A favourite picture from her family’s a... | Auschwitz survivor, 91, dies in the same town as death camp on day the world ...
| Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor who after World War II became director of the memorial site, has died on the 67th anniversary of its liberation. | Smolen died in a hospital in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated Auschwitz-... | Pechalat, Bourzat retain ice dance title at Euros
| SHEFFIELD, England -- Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France retained their ice dance title at the European figure skating championships on Friday by beating Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev in the free dance. | Trailing the Russian pair by 0.17 points af... | Poles keep up protests against copyright treaty
| WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of Poles have demonstrated in Warsaw against a copyright treaty that Poland signed this week, continuing days of protests over an issue that has sparked social anger. | Just last week most Poles had never heard of the treaty in questio... | Citigroup to Close Prop Trading Desk
| Citigroup is giving in to the Volcker rule. | The bank is shutting its equity principal strategies desk, which made trades using the firm’s own capital, the firm announced in an internal memo on Friday. Most of the desk’s employees will leave Citigroup aft... | Congress To Hear From MF Global’s Former Risk Chiefs
| The congressional inquiry into the collapse of MF Global and its misuse of customer money is set to intensify next week, when a House committee hears testimony from the top executives once responsible for monitoring risk at the brokerage firm. | The oversight panel of... | Davos, in the Style of Occupy Wall Street
| DAVOS, Switzerland — In the lofty atmosphere of Davos during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a spontaneous debate about the state of the world can break out anywhere — even in a snow-covered parking lot with ski slopes in the background. | That... | Poles keep up protests against copyright treaty
| WARSAW, Poland — Hundreds of Poles have demonstrated in Warsaw against a copyright treaty that Poland signed this week, continuing days of protests over an issue that has sparked social anger. Protesters demonstrate against ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade... | |
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