• Against expectations, parliament also secured measures to make banks disclose more data about their net income, public subsidies and taxes, broken down country-by-country.

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  • The resulting disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant led to a shut-down of the country's full nuclear power-generation capacity.

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  • He, like thousands of Labour activists and representatives up and down the country - like Mick Antoniw and Julie Morgan - absolutely oppose these "profoundly destructive" weapons.

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  • The move is about a grief stricken chef who, when encouraged by his pal, Gordon Ramsay, a pillar of support and good will (yeah, right), decides to pull his life back together by turning a run-down country pub into a gourmet eatery.

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  • All the Social Democrats' future allies will be pushing for a faster shut-down of the country's nuclear reactors.

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  • Although Washington never formally cut diplomatic ties with Somalia, the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident - in which 18 US servicemen died after militia fighters shot down two US military helicopters - marked the country's descent into anarchy.

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  • The Ivory Coast Government says it will not negotiate with the rebels - who control half of the country - until they lay down their arms.

    BBC: Civilians flee Ivory Coast fighting

  • Still, mortality figures for under--5s are coming down -- while still being appalling -- and in a country where people have learned to cherish small blessings, there are signs of improvement in some lifestyle areas.

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  • It is the kind of comment you hear in pubs up and down the country and on phone-ins after a game.

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  • Twenty years ago it was a run-down city in a developing country which barely registered on the economic Richter scale, let alone as a global hub for air travel.

    BBC: Could airport hub capacity see UK lose out to rivals?

  • The move follows hard on the heels of attempts at the Karachi Stock Exchange - the country's premier share market - to slap down "wildcat" speculative trading in favour of more long-term investment.

    BBC: Pakistan banks' strategy under fire

  • The court could historically alter how the law treats marriage, striking down laws across the country banning same-sex marriage and matching an apparent cultural shift toward acceptance of same-sex couples.

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  • If they refused to pay, the vultures would sue anyone who dealt with that country - effectively shutting down all of a nation's foreign trade and putting them out of business unless they paid up.

    BBC: UK stops 'vulture funds' picking on poor

  • The AARP roadies--senior citizens who roam the country visiting grandchildren--won't be down for another hour, so now it's all hardworking business types sipping coffee at the too-small tables, preparing for another day of work on the road.

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  • The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.

    BBC: Five unforgettable rail journeys

  • It is not economically sensible, based on empirical evidence, to expect that giving significant tax breaks and tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires will trickle down -- the benefits will trickle down to the middle class and working Americans around the country.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Among other things, the new treaty adopts a 0% withholding tax--down from 10%--on certain interest, dividends and royalties paid from the country where a company is doing business but isn't based.

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  • It was a decade in which it seemed like the values that built this country were turned upside-down.

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  • On 10 December - just days before the tragedy in Connecticut - a US federal court struck down the country's last remaining law banning concealed weapons.

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  • Britain's top finance officials in recent months have played down the importance of the country's top-notch credit rating.

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  • Statistics just came out this week: From 2001 to 2009, the income of middle-class families in this country went down 5 percent.

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  • Yet her diffidence and down-to-earthness was peculiarly suited to her country.

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  • These are the exhibitions that will get the attention, but don't forget the publically-funded modern art galleries up and down the country that show great art all year round, from the Bristol Art Museum to the National Galleries of Scotland.

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  • While the city's Labour politicians preside over the building of the huge, shiny new Bull Ring shopping precinct in the city centre, Sparkbrook still has some of the country's most run-down estates, as well as some of its highest rates of unemployment.

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  • He is proposing a further clamp-down on asylum-seekers: per person, Switzerland gets far more refugee applications than any other sizeable European country.

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  • Southern food, Mr. Stitt said, can be broken down into three categories: hill country Appalachian, low-country and Louisiana Cajun and Creole.

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  • The government plan to close down a large part of the country's loss-making mining industry is part of the reform package.

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  • "Cyber attacks are a nuisance and cause aggravation as well as costs to countless private and public organisations up and down the country, " said Det Con Nicky Holland-Day.

    BBC: Lewys Martin

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