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• Libya begins payments for terrorism victims
The rapprochement stalled after Libya halted payments to the families of Lockerbie victims under a previous compensation deal that would have paid $8 million to each and in the absence of an agreement on the La Belle disco bombing in Berlin. But it ...
• Deal to save Germany’s Hypo Real Estate fails
BERLIN - Germany's No. 2 commercial property lender, Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, said Saturday that a $48 billion rescue plan for the company had fallen apart after private lenders withdrew support. Hypo said it would seek to stay in business ...
• Brangelina bunch blocks New York traffic
In previous years Jolie actually has been on hand for General Assembly; this year, she was in Berlin with the rest of her family. That doesn’t mean she’s stepped out of the spotlight. One person who’s worked with Jolie in some of her ...
• What I learned at ‘town hall’ campaign events
He was just as poised in the relatively small setting of Monticello, Iowa as he was in front of the mass crowds in Berlin, Germany or at Invesco field in Denver. In contrast to Obama, McCain brings a bit more zest for combat to his town hall events. ...
• Europeans scramble to save failing banks
... chief economist at the New York-based Fact and Opinion Economics, said that the ECB does issue such a cut it would a be a sign "that they're really, really scared." ___ Associated Press writers Angela Doland in Paris, Patrick McGroarty in Berlin and ...