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UBS Trader Charged With Fraud

The trader arrested on suspicion of costing Swiss banking giant UBS more than $2 billion in unauthorized trades was charged Friday with fraud and two counts of false accounting dating as far back as 2008.

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Trader Lost Billions for Swiss Bank

Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader had cost it approximately $2 billion in unauthorized trades. (more)

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Mugabe’s Last Stand?

The U.S. has finally decided that it is “well past time” for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to be shown the door. This after he stole an election in June, subverted a power-sharing arrangement and run his once-prosperous nation into the ground.

Posted on Dec 5, 2008 READ MORE  |  9 COMMENTS


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Palin Talks Africa, ‘Wardrobe-Gate’ in Fox News Interview

Fox News’ Greta von Susteren spends a good portion of the first part of her lengthy interview with Sarah Palin asking about the clothes Palin and her family wore on the campaign trail, but the Alaska governor also addresses several other rumors and “oddities” that circulated before the election.

Posted on Nov 10, 2008 READ MORE  |  8 COMMENTS


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Palin ‘Going Rogue’

Is Sarah Palin’s recent drop in popularity due to the laws of political gravity, or are McCain-Palin campaign advisers to blame? Whatever the reason, Palin is said to be growing frustrated with certain aides and taking her own direction in her latest speeches, with her eye on the White House ... in 2012.

Posted on Oct 25, 2008 READ MORE  |  44 COMMENTS


Serious Miscalculations About Syria

A young scholar who has lived in Damascus finds it not a “rogue state” but a complex, jittery mosaic surprisingly receptive to America.

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