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OFT calls for review of payday lenders
28 Jun 2013
Rudd back as Australian PM after Gillard loses labour ballot
27 Jun 2013
Julia Gillard lost the Labour Party leadership ballot just months ahead of the general elections due in September to rival Kevin Rudd, whom she had ousted in 2010
Pak agency formally charges Musharraf with Benazir killing
25 Jun 2013
The chargesheet submitted today contained the statements of four witnesses, including two American reporters
Italy’s ex-PM Berlusconi gets 7-yr sentence in sex scandal
25 Jun 2013
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public office by a lower court in Milan
Qatar's emir hands over power to 33-year-old son
25 Jun 2013
Climate change, Afghanistan top Kerry’s agenda on Indian visit
24 Jun 2013
The US and India have begun high-level talks on a wide range of issues, including nuclear cooperation, India’s role in the upcoming Afghanistan elections, and climate change
UK, China reach £21-bn currency swap deal
24 Jun 2013
New US trade chief wants India to relax rules for new trade deals
22 Jun 2013
Former deputy national security advisor Michael Froman, who has taken charge as the new US trade representative, wants India to open its markets to US agricultural exports
Eurozone private sector PMI at 15-month high
21 Jun 2013
Japan’s trade deficit rises 9.5% in May
20 Jun 2013
Much of the trade deficit is attributed to growing demand for fuel to meet the country’s energy needs due to shutting down of nuclear reactors following the Fukushima-Daiichi catastrophe in March 2011
The foreign policy impact of Iran's presidential election
18 Jun 2013
While defending Iran's nuclear programme and regional agenda, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor President-elect Hassan Rouhani understands that simply issuing ultimatums to the West and escalating tensions rather than striking compromises will not win relief from sanctions. By Michael Nayebi-Oskoui and Kamran Bokhari. (Republished with permission of Stratfor).
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