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• Pro-Putin party wins 44.5 percentt in parliament vote: exit poll

  18-09-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Polina Devitt and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW/SARANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin comfortably won a parliamentary election on Sunday, but early indications were that turnout was low, suggesting a softening of enthusiasm for the ruling elite 18 months away from the next presidential election. The ruling United Russia party, which Putin founded, won 44.5 percent in Sunday's vote, an exit poll showed, slightly down on the last election. Putin, speaking to United Russ
  
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• Russia's Putin hails ruling party victory in parliament vote

  18-09-2016 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said the ruling United Russia party won Sunday's parliamentary election. "We can say with certainty that the party has won," Putin told campaign workers at the United Russia headquarters, standing alongside United Russia leader and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Alluding to a sharp slowdown in the Russian economy, Putin said: "The situation is not easy, people feel that, and they want and hope that the political situation should be stable." (R
  
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• Approval of Peruvian President Kuczynski rises slightly in September

  18-09-2016 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The approval rating of Peru's recently elected president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has risen slightly in September, as Peruvians have supported his plans to spark economic growth, a survey by pollster Ipsos Peru showed on Sunday. Kuczynski, who took office at the end of July after a close run-off election, had the backing of 63 percent of Peruvians in September, up two percentage points since August, according to the poll published in national newspaper El Comercio. The pollster said that the most c
  
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• Italy's Renzi steps up attack on EU, Merkel

  18-09-2016 15:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stepped up his attacks against other European Union leaders on Sunday after an EU summit in Bratislava which he said amounted to no more than "a nice cruise on the Danube." Renzi said at the end of Friday's summit he was dissatisfied with its closing statement, after he was excluded from a joint news conference by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.. In particular, he criticized the lack of commitments on the economy and imm
  
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• Wells Fargo Scandal: How Politics Put the CEO’s Job in Jeopardy

  18-09-2016 14:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wells Fargo may have thought that firing 5,300 employees and paying $185 million in fines for opening some 1.5 million unauthorized accounts and filing 565,000 credit card applications without customers’ knowledge would make its scandal go away, but in an election year that has seen rage over perceived Wall Street greed reflected in the campaign of Bernie Sanders and to some extent the populist rise of Donald Trump, the bank may have miscalculated. Not only does the bane of big banks, Sen.
  
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• 'Token' Belarussian MP hopes to give opposition a voice

  18-09-2016 10:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) - The election in Belarus of lawmakers critical of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has split pro-democracy activists in the ex-Soviet republic once dubbed Europe's last dictatorship. Many argue that the appointments are a token gesture to the West from Lukashenko aimed at improving ties at a time of economic crisis and strained relations with main ally, Russia. On Sept. 11, Anna Kanopatskaya, a little-known member of the pro-Western United Civil P
  
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• CORRECTED-UPDATE 6-Sticker shock seen for U.S. motorists after key pipeline break

  18-09-2016 03:58
  
  (Corrects paragraph 1 to show aimed restart is next week)By DevikaKrishna KumarNEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline Co aims to
  restart a key U.S. gasoline line sometime next...
  
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• REFILE-UPDATE 1-Colonial resumes work on U.S. gasoline line, pump prices rise

  18-09-2016 03:48
  
  Sept 17 (Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline Co said on Saturday it
  resumed repairing a leak on a key U.S. gasoline line on Friday
  afternoon, but pump prices continued to rise in the southeast as
  several...
  
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• Market rebound since Brexit may not reflect risks, says BIS

  18-09-2016 02:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Financial markets recovered far more rapidly than expected following Britain's vote to leave the EU, the Bank of International Settlements said Sunday, warning that the rally might be ignoring significant risks ahead. During the two days of trading following the so-called Brexit vote on June 23, most major stock indexes shed more than five percent, while the broadest London stock exchange index plunged 15 percent, and the British pound lost 10 percent of its value against other major currencies.
  
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• Merkel faces setback in Berlin vote due to migrant fears

  18-09-2016 01:01
  
  BERLIN, Sept 18 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela
  Merkel's conservatives look set to suffer a second electoral
  blow in two weeks in a Berlin city vote on Sunday as a growing
  number of voters are...
  
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• UPDATE 2-Venezuela summit draws few leaders in blow to Maduro

  18-09-2016 00:12
  
  MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Only a
  handful of leaders have traveled to a meeting of a large Cold
  War-era bloc in Venezuela this week, in an embarrassment for the
  crisis-hit...
  
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