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As winter looms, Germany struggles to find homes for refugees

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CELLE, Germany - At a sprawling camp in the German town of Celle, refugees wearing thick sweaters sit around a heater smoking cigarettes as rain beats down on the cramped white tent that has become their home. Some of them are ill and worried it will snow.

Typically Greek, delayed land register is never-ending epic

ATHENS - When Greece applied for its first international bailout in 2010, only two countries in Europe lacked a computerized register of land ownership and usage. Albania was the other.

1:10pm EDT

Beijing promotes low-paid college grads to startup CEOs

SHANGHAI - Quitting her job as receptionist, joining rock bands and chancing her tattoo-sleeved arm at small business ventures would once have branded college graduate Ding Jia as a rebel in China. Now she can claim state endorsement as a "creative".

1:42am EDT

Mauritius eyes Africa as pressure mounts on offshore business

EBENE, Mauritius - Mauritius beats Singapore as the world's top route for foreign investment to India and is a hub for thousands of firms managing half a trillion dollars in assets.

16 Oct 2015

How conservatives bested corporate lobbying machine on EXIM

WASHINGTON - When Boeing Co., General Electric Co. and other companies wanted to show Congress last February the dangers of closing the Export-Import Bank, they turned to a time-tested Washington ritual: knocking on Capitol Hill office doors.

16 Oct 2015

One of us: the militant Egypt's army fears most

CAIRO, - As a special forces officer in the Egyptian Army, Hisham al-Ashmawy trained in the desert, learning camouflage and survival techniques and how to hunt the enemy in rough terrain. Now he has turned militant, and uses that training to another purpose: helping fellow jihadists fight Egypt’s government.

World, Egypt 16 Oct 2015

After Kunduz falls and violence spreads, more Afghans eye Europe

KABUL - The young man from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz used to make a decent living doing a dangerous job.

Wall Street bonuses likely to plunge as trading revenue drops

NEW YORK - Wall Street bankers and traders are likely to get smaller bonuses for 2015 as trading revenue plunges.

15 Oct 2015

Tensions build in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta

YENAGOA, Nigeria - Enjoying a chilled cider in a hotel pool bar, former Nigerian militant leader Ebi John has a simple message for President Muhammadu Buhari - keep paying my men or risk a new insurgency in the Niger Delta.

World, Africa 14 Oct 2015

Special Report: As hotel project broke budget, insiders pointed to role of CEO's wife

MIDLAND, Michigan - When Dow Chemical Co began renovating the hotel it owns here, the industrial giant spared little expense.

13 Oct 2015
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