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The British government is expected to disclose its rescue package for the country's beleaguered banks in a few hours’ time. It follows another day of turmoil for British bank shares. The rescue deal is understood to involve injecting billions of pounds into the banks, so they have enough cash to fund day-to-day operations. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, said he would make a statement before the financial markets opened on Wednesday.
The Bank of England has been putting substantial sums into the markets and it is ready to do more when that's needed. Now as I said in the House of Commons on Monday, we've been working closely with the governor of the Bank of England with the Financial Services Authority and financial institutions to put the banks on a longer-term sound footing. Now I intend to make a statement before the markets open tomorrow morning and I will make a statement in the House of Commons later in the day.
President Bush is urging common action to tackle the global financial crisis. He says he's willing to attend the summit to the world's leading industrialized nations. Stocks in theUnited States Washington
Despite the optimistic words of President Bush who told a group of small business owners that the American economy would recover, US stocks suffered from yet another abysmal day's trading. Stocks plunged over fears that the continuing credit crisis would drag theUS
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A United States Federal judge has ordered the government to free 17 detainees from theGuantanamo Bay Washington US
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American voters will shortly have the chance to put questions about the financial crisis to the two presidential candidates. Their latest television debate opens in a few hours inNashville , Tennessee Nashville
The two presidential candidates meet in the home of country music, during the kind of hard times for American families which have traditionally inspired country composers. As the gap between the candidates widens, the tone of campaign becomes much sharper, but the format for tonight's debate is a town hall meeting, a kind of folksy dialogue with undecided voters, which makes it difficult to land knockout punches, that, though, is precisely what John McCain needs to do, as time begins to run out for him. (WWW.hxen.net)
The medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, says tens of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fled after renewed fighting. Peter Greste reports fromNairobi
For months now, an estimated quarter of a million people in theCongo North Kivu province where agencies like Medecins Sans Frontieres have been helping with food, shelter and medical aid. But since the end of August, fighting has escalated into what MSF has described as full-scale war, and many of those people have been forced to run once more. Now, MSF says of the 100,000 people it had been supporting in one part of the North Kivu , it can only find 25,000.
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BBC News with Jerry Schmitt.
The British government is expected to disclose its rescue package for the country's beleaguered banks in a few hours’ time. It follows another day of turmoil for British bank shares. The rescue deal is understood to involve injecting billions of pounds into the banks, so they have enough cash to fund day-to-day operations. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, said he would make a statement before the financial markets opened on Wednesday.
The Bank of England has been putting substantial sums into the markets and it is ready to do more when that's needed. Now as I said in the House of Commons on Monday, we've been working closely with the governor of the Bank of England with the Financial Services Authority and financial institutions to put the banks on a longer-term sound footing. Now I intend to make a statement before the markets open tomorrow morning and I will make a statement in the House of Commons later in the day.
President Bush is urging common action to tackle the global financial crisis. He says he's willing to attend the summit to the world's leading industrialized nations. Stocks in the
Despite the optimistic words of President Bush who told a group of small business owners that the American economy would recover, US stocks suffered from yet another abysmal day's trading. Stocks plunged over fears that the continuing credit crisis would drag the
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We will be sending people to
A United States Federal judge has ordered the government to free 17 detainees from the
You are listening to World News from the BBC.
American voters will shortly have the chance to put questions about the financial crisis to the two presidential candidates. Their latest television debate opens in a few hours in
The two presidential candidates meet in the home of country music, during the kind of hard times for American families which have traditionally inspired country composers. As the gap between the candidates widens, the tone of campaign becomes much sharper, but the format for tonight's debate is a town hall meeting, a kind of folksy dialogue with undecided voters, which makes it difficult to land knockout punches, that, though, is precisely what John McCain needs to do, as time begins to run out for him. (WWW.hxen.net)
The medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, says tens of thousands of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fled after renewed fighting. Peter Greste reports from
For months now, an estimated quarter of a million people in the
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