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Britain urges steps to insure financial system

AP - 48 minutes ago

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Britain called Saturday for consideration of a tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis and urged world finance officials meeting in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change.

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Glaxo Saudi's sole supplier of H1N1 vaccine for now
Reuters - 1 hour 46 minutes ago
* Saudi Arabia to start H1N1 inoculation with pilgrims
HSBC slashes prize money of Women's Champions
AFP - Saturday, November 7
SHANGHAI (AFP) - - Global banking giant HSBC said it was renewing its sponsorship of the Women's Champions tournament for the next three years, but prize money would be slashed.
Pakistani c.bank buys 85.40 bln rupees of govt paper
Reuters - Saturday, November 7
KARACHI, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Pakistan's central bank bought back 85.40 billion rupees ($1.02 billion) of treasury bills and government bonds on Saturday in 7-day reverse-repo contracts at 12.13 percent to inject funds into the money market.

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UK gives ground on global tax on banks
Reuters - 37 minutes ago
By Huw Jones
Yemen sends 1st LNG shipment,seeks to allay fears
Reuters - 41 minutes ago
* Yemen sends off first LNG shipment
U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible" - grandfather
Reuters - 1 hour 37 minutes ago
AL-BIREH, West Bank, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act.