NEW YORK (Reuters) – French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Saturday that she does not expect any decision to be made by Euro zone finance ministers next week on financial help for Greece.

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NIAMEY (Reuters) – The new junta ruling in Niger, one of the world’s biggest uranium producers, should review and possibly renegotiate dozens of resource exploitation contracts, civil rights groups said on Saturday.

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Most Greeks think draconian austerity measures announced by the government earlier this month were along the right lines and many feel labor unions should not oppose them too aggressively, a poll showed.

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ZURICH (Reuters) – The chief executive of Swisscom AG said Fastweb was a victim of fraud, a Swiss paper reported on Saturday, the second time the CEO has come out in defense of his company’s subsidiary.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree on Monday on the principles and parameters of financial help to Greece, if it is required, but leave out any sums until Athens asks for them, an EU source said.

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ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS is considering possibly returning to its commodities business this year, some of which it sold during the financial crisis, a Swiss newspaper said on Saturday, citing the co-head of UBS’s investment bank.

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UBS may return to commodities in 2010: report

KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s Investment Dar , which owns half of British carmaker Aston Martin, is applying for support under a government facility set up for troubled companies as part of a debt restructuring.

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KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s Investment Dar , which owns half of British carmaker Aston Martin, is applying for support under a government facility set up for troubled companies as part of a debt-restructuring plan.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The primary general contractor for the $8.5 billion CityCenter project on the Las Vegas Strip plans to sue the project’s owners for $492 million.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany’s Finance Ministry said on Saturday it was not aware of any agreement by euro zone members to bail out heavily indebted Greece, and the European Union’s executive said no such deal had been concluded.

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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now “99.9 percent” certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday.

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The euro zone has not agreed a deal on financial support for heavily indebted Greece, but technical work is continuing and the Commission stands ready to act if need be, a spokesman for the European Union executive said on Saturday.

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EU Commission says no deal concluded on Greece

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Finance Ministry said on Saturday it was not aware of any agreement by euro zone members to provide a multi-billion euro bailout package for heavily indebted Greece.

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Germany says unaware of Greek bailout deal

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) – The United States should rethink domestic and global financial regulation, Lawrence Summers, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, said on Friday, outlining six “imperatives.”

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PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) – The United States should rethink domestic and global financial regulation, Lawrence Summers, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, said on Friday.

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