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DEXIA ANNOUNCES SELL-OFF DEAL TO ASSUAGE EU OVER BAILOUT

In late 2008, at the height of the sub-prime crisis, France, Belgium and Luxembourg injected 6.4 billion euros into Dexia and pledged to guarantee its borrowings on the markets as its shares plunged during the worst credit crisis in generations.


Total unions call strike at French refineries

Three months later, the oil giant said it was considering a move to shut down the facility, one of six refineries run by Total in France.

France wants tuna trade ban in 18 months: minister

The Japanese buy more than 80 percent of the tuna fished in the Mediterranean, so imposing an international trade ban would vastly reduce fishing of the species.


China minister stands firm on Iran sanctions

The European Union is China's biggest trading partner while China is the EU's second after the United States.



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