Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has repeated promises of economic reform as Italian bonds come under renewed attack in the eurozone crisis.
Robert Mugabe has warned Switzerland he would "reciprocate" after his wife and top officials were denied visas to attend a UN meeting there.
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/ 27 October 2011
EU leaders have struck a deal for banks and insurers to accept a 50% loss on their Greek bonds in a bid to try to contain the sovereign debt crisis.
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/ 23 October 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Ban funds to fight the debt crisis.
Syria’s under-fire president has appointed two new governors in flashpoint provinces that have seen staunch protests against his regime.
EU leaders are holding talks to try to hammer out a plan for tackling the eurozone debt crisis, but a breakthrough is not expected until Wednesday.
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/ 22 October 2011
Europe has piled pressure on banks to write off vast Greek debts as leaders struggle to come up with a lasting answer for its credit crisis.
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/ 21 October 2011
The European Union will launch plans to invest €50-billion in modernising digital, energy and transport networks and creating jobs.
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/ 17 October 2011
The eurozone and Greece face their "most critical week" as they battle to reach a solution to the debt crisis, says George Papandreou.
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/ 17 October 2011
The next three weeks are likely to determine the fate of global markets for the remainder of the year, writes <b>Matt Quigley</b>.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet says the EU treaty should be changed to prevent one member state from destabilising the rest of the bloc.
The world’s leading economies are pressing Europe to act boldly within eight days to resolve the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis.
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/ 15 October 2011
The world’s leading economies kept the pressure on Europe to sort out its debt crisis, with the urgency to be expressed at the end of the meeting.
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/ 11 October 2011
Troika inspectors gave a lukewarm approval for a vital aid tranche to Greece, saying Athens was lagging on reforms needed to exit its debt crisis.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has held talks in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy on a crunch weekend for the European debt crisis.
Arab Spring or EU? Speculation ahead of the Nobel peace prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee’s chair.
United States airlines are wrong to think that they can force the European Union to back down on plans to make carriers pay for emitting carbon.
Greek officials have held talks with EU and IMF negotiators to free up urgently needed bailout loans.
The rand, thanks to its volatility in recent days, has quickly become one of the worst performing global currencies.
Yemeni President Abdullah Ali Saleh has called for early elections in his first speech since returning to Yemen.
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/ 25 September 2011
British opposition leader Ed Miliband has urged Prime Minister David Cameron to show leadership over the international economic crisis.
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/ 19 September 2011
World stocks and the euro fell sharply as investors feared a messy Greek default within weeks unless Athens implements the austerity measures demanded
US and European powers stepped up a diplomatic scramble on Sunday to avoid a UN showdown on the Palestinian plan to seek full UN membership.
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/ 18 September 2011
Experts say Europe is digging an ever-deeper hole as it vows to resolve the euro zone crisis.
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/ 17 September 2011
The EU has agreed that banks must be strengthened after July stress tests found a "systemic" crisis in sovereign debt threatened a credit crunch.
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/ 16 September 2011
At a time when the world is facing very important economic challenges, the EU-SA summit has shown that the parties share excellent relations still.
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/ 16 September 2011
Timothy Geithner told EU finance ministers to end talk about a eurozone break-up and work with the European Central Bank to fight the debt crisis.
At an SA-EU summit in the Kruger Park there are plenty of pachyderms outside, but Zimbabwe and Libya are the only elephants in the room itself.
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/ 11 September 2011
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has announced budget cuts totalling around €2-billion in exchange for a rescue package.
Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos insists there is no rift with EU and IMF auditors, who say Greece failed to meet conditions to unlock funding.
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/ 3 September 2011
The EU has imposed a ban on purchases of Syrian oil and expanded the sanctions list to intensify pressure against President Bashar al-Assad.
Libya’s new leadership says it is committed to democracy, while it prioritises areas for spending the billions released from Gaddafi’s frozen assets.