Zimbabweans queue to return old banknotes
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Zimbabweans formed queues at banks on Saturday to beat a December 31 deadline to hand in a currency series phased out by the central bank.
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Halifax bank wants customers with dormant accounts to contact them so they can be reunited with their cash.
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Millions of Ukrainians queue at banks to claim compensation for savings lost in the collapse of communism.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe bans all pay and price rises in a new bid to curb the country's runaway inflation.
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Zimbabwe's central bank chief extended a deadline Monday to exchange 200,000 dollar bills just hours before they were to cease being legal tender after scenes of chaos at banks across the country.
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Addis Ababa - Ethiopian campaigners pressed British Prime Minister Tony Blair to return sacred Ethiopian objects and ancient artefacts that were looted by British troops more than a century ago.
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Thousands of Zimbabweans waited for hours to get scarce currency from the banks so they could buy food and board buses on Monday for Christmas trips to their home villages.
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Banks in Zimbabwe will remain open on Christmas Day and Boxing Day to allow people to get new banknotes.
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One million banknotes bearing the image of George Best went into circulation in Northern Ireland, the latest in a line of tributes to the late football legend.
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Three candidates for Zimbabwe's presidential election next month submit their papers on deadline day.
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The number of Zimbabwean migrants in neighbouring South Africa may be a lot lower than estimated.
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A young girl in Zimbabwe brings back food for the night for her family -- a handful of rats to help them get by for another day. "Look what we've been reduced to eating?" her mother says. It's not an uncommon sight in Zimbabwe, once considered southern Africa's bread basket and now on the sharp decline. Critics point to one man for the country's ails: President Robert Mugabe.
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Zimbabwe's currency plunged to new depths on Friday as the U.S. ambassador to Harare predicted galloping inflation will force President Robert Mugabe from office before the end of the year.
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A bank in Northern Ireland hit by a massive robbery this week is considering a drastic method of preventing the criminals enjoying their haul by taking all the types of notes seized out of circulation, it said.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwean riot squads fired teargas and water cannon to drive stone-throwing protesters off the streets of a troubled township in Harare yesterday after preventing the main opposition party from holding a major rally.
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President Robert Mugabe's government has said it will unconditionally welcome back all Zimbabweans who fled to Britain claiming political persecution by his ruling party, a state-owned daily is reporting.
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NEW YORK, May 30 (IPS) - Gone are the days when the scowling face of  dictator Mobutu Sese Seko gazed out from the face of Zaire's  paper currency, a denomination that inflation and corruption  eventually made so worthless it was issued in notes of 5 million.