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◾Price terms tightened, especially for banks and dealers as well as insurance companies.

The violent events now unfolding in Kiev, Bangkok, and Cairo cannot be seen as separate and unrelated events. In every case, the hand of the Anglo-Dutch empire is visible, reflecting what Lyndon LaRouche has identified as the growing danger of a global war leading to potential war of thermonuclear extinction. The driving force behind all of these acts of asymmetric warfare is not to be found in the local conditions, per se, rather, it is the desperate and dying forces of the trans-Atlantic Anglo-Dutch empire who are driving the chaos.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved an US$5 million IDA* grant to help the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) strengthen the credibility, transparency and accountability of the Government’s management of public finances. The project aims to improve transparency and effectiveness in the use of public resources that will help reconstruct the country’s social links, and redirect public resources for social services, such as health, education, and agriculture to projects that benefit the country’s poorest people.

Stock indexes tumbled in the U.S. and Europe Friday as investors worried about the faltering fortunes of emerging market countries across the globe.

Internet giants Facebook and Google have recently acquired two India-based technology start-up companies. This is expected to give a boost to entrepreneurship in India, home to tens of thousands of software engineers and a thriving information technology industry.

Asian stocks were down Thursday following the U.S. central bank's decision to further trim its stimulus of the world's biggest economy.

UK Councils will receive £165 million to support vulnerable claimants who might need extra support next year (2014 to 2015).

Improving employment prospects for citizens—and especially for women and the young—represents the single most important socio-economic development challenge in Kosovo, building on an important reform agenda already implemented to create more jobs and reduce unemployment.