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Germans are blaming Merkel's tough stance on austerity for their entry's unpopularity at this year's Eurovision, in which Denmark was the victor.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 6- The United States and Ireland have agreed to share information about wealthy citizens' financial accounts in a pact intended to combat tax evasion, another in a series of bilateral deals announced in recent weeks by the U.S. Treasury Department. The United States has completed FATCA deals with the UK, Denmark and Mexico.
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*Green groups say Doha on brink of disaster. DOHA, Dec 7- A row over who will pay for dealing with the accelerating impact of climate change soured U.N. debate in Doha, where a final day of haggling was expected to do nothing to curb greenhouse gas pollution.
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BRASILIA, Dec 6- Brazil's government on Thursday unveiled a $26 billion public-private drive to modernize clogged sea ports, whose high costs and notorious delays are eroding the country's competitive edge as a major commodities exporter.
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DOHA, Dec 6- Bickering over when rich nations will step up aid towards a promised $100 billion by 2020 to help developing nations tackle the effects of climate change threatened to derail talks in Doha between 200 countries.
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*Developing countries say not enough to unlock deal in Doha. DOHA, Dec 6- European Union promises of rising aid to help developing countries tackle climate change on Thursday failed to ease a stand-off at U.N. talks in Doha that green groups said were on the brink of disaster.
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A U.S. port workers union has accused APM Terminals, a port operator of A.P. Moller-Maersk, of spying on union representatives in Los Angeles by tapping their phones.
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COPENHAGEN, Dec 6- A U.S. port workers union has accused APM Terminals, a port operator of A.P. Moller-Maersk, of spying on union representatives in Los Angeles by tapping their phones.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 5- Much has been written over the past year about the risks of a two-speed Europe in which the 17 euro zone countries move ahead more rapidly than the rest of the European Union. In the slow lane, closest to the exit ramp should it choose to swerve off, is Britain, the reluctant partner of Europe for the past 40 years.
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Dec 5- In Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, Denmark, Finland and New Zealand tied for first place out of 176 countries- meaning they were perceived to have the lowest levels of state sector corruption.
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BERLIN, Dec 5- Egypt has slid in a global league table of perceived official corruption in the past year, and the "Arab Spring" revolutions have yet to produce serious anti-graft action across the region, Transparency International said on Wednesday.
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*Greece replaces Bulgaria as lowest-ranking EU state. *Italy below ex-communist Romania in global league table. BERLIN, Dec 5- Greece has scored the worst ranking of all 27 European Union nations in a global league table of perceived official corruption, falling below ex-communist Bulgaria as public anger about graft soars during the country's crisis.
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*Ban Ki- moon urges nations to cast off apathy, agree a deal. *Says wants Kyoto to stay platform to fight global warming. He said signs of change were apparent everywhere and "from the United States to India, from Ukraine to Brazil, drought decimated essential global crops".
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Germany and France publicly clashed on Tuesday over plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising banks, deepening a dispute over the scope of the ECB's powers that threatens to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms.
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BRUSSELS, Dec 4- Germany and France publicly clashed on Tuesday over plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising banks, deepening a dispute over the scope of the ECB's powers that threatens to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms.
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*Spain's De Guindos says banking union vital to euro's future. BRUSSELS, Dec 4- Divisions over how European bank oversight will work threaten to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms as finance ministers finalise plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising all euro zone banks on Tuesday.
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*Sweden, Hungary, Poland still have concerns about ECB oversight. European Union finance ministers will try to finalise plans to put the European Central Bank in charge of supervising all euro zone banks on Tuesday, but divisions over how ECB oversight will work threaten to undermine one of Europe's boldest reforms.
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ZURICH, Dec 3- Switzerland's largest banks are to charge fees and pay negative interest rates on Swiss franc deposits made by rivals to encourage them to limit their holdings of the currency.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- Lockheed Martin Corp and the U.S. Defense Department have reached an agreement in principle on a fifth batch of 32 additional F-35 fighter planes, the Pentagon said on Friday, bringing nearly a year of negotiations to a close.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- Lockheed Martin Corp and the U.S. Defense Department have reached an agreement in principle on a fifth batch of 32 additional F-35 fighter planes, the Pentagon said on Friday, bringing nearly a year of negotiations to a close.
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LONDON, Nov 30- Subsidised renewable energy cuts peak power prices, but is also unreliable, and in most countries the cost of balancing its intermittency is borne by dispatchable fossil fuel and nuclear power.