Zimbabweans rush to hand in expiring bank notes
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Zimbabweans thronged banking halls Monday to beat a deadline to swap 200,000-dollar bills which become worthless when businesses close for the day.
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People with money in the bank soon might help foot the bill to stabilize Wall Street.
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Poles lined up Sunday for a chance to buy shares in their largest bank, with volunteers using a waiting list system from communist times to impose order on the crush of interested investors on the eve of signup ...
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Some Lithuanians were a bit too anxious to introduce the euro to their country. In what is being billed as the largest seizure of counterfeit euro notes since they were introduced, Lithuanian police have ...
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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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The Zimbabwean state could take 50% stakes in mining firms, President Robert Mugabe has reportedly said. The government is considering the move, reports claim, in an effort to crack down on what it says is the illegal use of foreign currency from exports.
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Runaway inflation and the Zimbabwe currency's largest decline in memory will increase pressure on President Robert Mugabe to allow free and fair elections, the main opposition leader said Thursday.
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Hundreds of worried customers of embattled bank Northern Rock began queuing outside their local branches at dawn Saturday as they scrambled to withdraw savings.
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Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and other public service workers took to the streets throughout South Africa on Friday to press their demands for a 12 percent pay increase.
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Zimbabwe has sent crack police to enforce price freezes in the rural strongholds of President Robert Mugabe, where businesses have failed to heed measures aimed at reining in inflation and halting economic collapse.
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Traders open up their checkbooks and push money into the U.S. markets.
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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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With a Saturday night deadline for second-quarter fundraising fast approaching, presidential candidates from both major parties are scrambling to rake in the cash before the clock runs out.
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Parties are rushing to enlist expats ahead of October registration deadlines for the Bush-Kerry contest.
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Zimbabwe invites more than 1,000 white farmers to collect compensation for property seized during land reforms.
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Three candidates for Zimbabwe's presidential election next month submit their papers on deadline day.
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Lawyers in Zimbabwe try to get access to key members of the opposition after their arrest at a rally.