Saddam funds fail to buy Gaza hearts
Sheik Yassim Jamasi said he was grateful for the $25,000 cheque he received from Saddam Hussein, but it did not change his attitude towards the Iraqi president.
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Musharraf appeals against Islamic banking
After years of legal wrangles, Pakistan's supreme court last year ordered the government to switch to an Islamic banking system. At the last minute Islamabad convince...
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BT turnaround cheers City
BT yesterday cheered investors by resuming dividend payments after an 18-month hiatus and by showing signs of a turnaround after a year in which it demerged wireless busi...
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Banks spinning a wider world web
Banking took another step into the future this week when Egg and Lloyds TSB launched separate services allowing people to make completely online payments to anyone with a...
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Watchdog offers hope of compensation deal
More than 100,000 policyholders could be on their way to compensation payments from pensions scandal No 2 - the first was personal pensions- according to figures released...
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Friends Provident to float
Mutual insurance group Friends Provident yesterday stunned the City by announcing plans to float on the stock market and pay windfalls averaging £2,500 to 1.7m polic...
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Elf slush funds oiled French political machine
The scandal over illegal political funding by the French state-owned oil firm, Elf, deepened yesterday when the Socialist former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn w...
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Arms, human rights and a question of values
The export credit guarantee department has become the centre of a Whitehall row over ethics, arms sales and environmental considerations, because of its pivotal role in u...
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Foreign prisoners crisis still costing millions
Taxpayers are paying millions of pounds to continue to detain more than 1,000 foreign prisoners who have already finished their jail sentences.
The revelation of the add...
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For the record
In 'Premiership club charges £3,500 to be a mascot' (News, last week), we said that Everton FC requires payment from the families of young supporters who want to be...
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