Pakistan gets $7.6 b IMF loan
PAKISTAN - Pakistan has won final approval for a
$7.6 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help the
front line state in the campaign against Islamist terrorism stave
off possible economic meltdown.
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Obama nominated technocrat Geithner as Treasury Chief
US - Timothy Geithner, who was Monday nominated
president-elect Barack Obama’s Treasury chief, brings international
experience, the insight of a Washington insider and markets
technocrat to the key post at a time of acute, global economic
peril.
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Bush insists vision of Palestinian state lives
US - U.S. President George W. Bush declared in
farewell talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday
that the vision of a Palestinian state remained alive, despite
failure to achieve their goal of a peace deal this year.
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