Germany has put a Greek bond swap back on the table as a model for private sector involvement in fresh aid for Athens, Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen told Reuters Insider TV on Wednesday. "The model put forward by some French banks is still a good base for discussions and we are currently working on
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Cyprus sold 90 mln euros in 13 week treasury bills, paying a 3.50% average yield at an auction on Wednesday, the finance ministry said. The yield at the previous successful auction of 13 week bills, in March 2007, was 3.61%. No bids were accepted for up to 150 mln euros worth of 13 week bills
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It is hard to feel too sorry for the gold jewelers of Santorini. Times may be hard, but they do live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. The collapse of the Greek economy has done nothing to stop the sun glinting off the sparkling lagoon of this idyllic island in the Aegean
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* Bilateral trade reaches $300 mln; investments total $17.5 bln * A double-taxation avoidance agreement with Ukraine is currently being drafted and is expected to be signed by October of this year, President Viktor Yanukovich said in Kiev on Monday, welcoming his Cypriot counterpart, Demetris Christofias. The visit included a large trade delegation that took
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Same-sex couples eager to marry in New York hit a bureaucratic snag when marriage license applications made available to them for the first time on Tuesday still used the terms "bride" and "groom." City Council spokesman Jamie McShane said forms that accommodate all marriages would be online sometime on Tuesday, less than three weeks before
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If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger. A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons that
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Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center began ticking on Tuesday toward the final flight in the 30-year-old U.S. space shuttle program, a cargo run to the International Space Station. Liftoff of shuttle Atlantis carrying astronauts is set for 11:26 a.m. EDT on Friday, though meteorologists are concerned about the weather. An approaching front is
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not told President Barack Obama he would like to leave after a debt ceiling deal is reached, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. Sources familiar with Geithner's thinking said last week he was considering stepping down once the country's $14.3 trillion debt limit is raised. That must happen
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A bare-headed motorcyclist riding in protest of New York state's helmet law crashed, struck his head on the roadway and died from his injuries, state police said on Sunday. Philip Contos, 55, was riding among a large group of motorcyclists staging an organized protest ride in western New York near Syracuse against the state law
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A Mexican prisoner hoped to take a trip to freedom by packing himself into his girlfriend's suitcase. But guards at the jail in the southeastern town of Chetumal grew suspicious when the woman seemed nervous as she wheeled out the bulging bag after a conjugal visit with the prisoner. Opening the luggage, guards found Juan
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