Thursday 04 December 2008
French €26bn stimulus plan to boost investment
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- FINANCIAL CRISIS
- French €26bn stimulus plan to boost investment
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- "Our response to the crisis is investment," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy as he unveiled a €26bn stimulus package. The plan, which will add a further €15.5bn to the country's public deficit, focuses on the construction and car industries.
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- PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
- Clashes in Hebron as police evict settlers
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- Israeli police have forcibly evicted 200 Israeli settlers from a disputed house in Hebron prompting clashes with other settlers. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak insisted "the lawlessness in Hebron will end".
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- CANADA
- PM to call for suspension of parliament
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is likely to call for the suspension of parliament in a bid to block an opposition attempt to topple his two-week-old government.
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- IRAQ
- Bomb rocks Fallujah in wake of security pact
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- At least 15 people were killed when two suicide car bombers struck in the former rebel bastion of Fallujah as Iraq's security pact with the US won final approval from the presidential council in Baghdad.
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- MUMBAI ATTACKS
- Pakistan pledges strong action after terror attacks
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari promised US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that his country will take "strong action" against terrorists caught in Pakistan, Zardari said in a statement issued after Rice's surprise visit to the region.
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- EXCLUSIVE REPORT
- Meeting Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Pakistan
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- US intelligence officials have suggested the assault on Mumbai was the work of a Pakistan-based militant group called Lashkar-e-Taiba. FRANCE 24's Matthieu Mabin travelled to Lahore, Pakistan, to find out more about this group.
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- ZIMBABWE - HEALTH
- Harare calls for help with cholera epidemic
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- Zimbabwean authorities called for international help to deal with a "national emergency" as the World Health Organisation said the death toll from the cholera outbreak in the country had risen to over 550.
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- FINANCIAL CRISIS
- ECB makes history with 0.75% interest rate cut
- Thursday 04 December 2008
- As European economies slip one after the other into recession, the European Central Bank announced its biggest interest rate cut yet, down 0.75 percentage points to 2.50%. Earlier, the Bank of England lowered its key rate to pre-World War II levels.
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