Archive for October, 2009

Three new High Street banking chains are to be created by the UK government by breaking up state-rescued banks. [Read More]

AP – Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical island home of Palau after the tiny Pacific nation agreed to a U.S. request to resettle the men. [Read More]

AP – President Hamid Karzai’s challenger plans to call for a boycott of next weekend’s runoff election in an attempt to force the vote’s postponement until spring, his campaign manager said — a move that would dim U.S. hopes for a stable Afghan government for months. [Read More]

AP – The Royal Bank of Scotland, Northern Rock, and Lloyds Banking Group are to sell off as many as 700 branches in the next few years in exchange for the public aid they received during the economic meltdown, a government official told The Associated Press on Saturday. [Read More]

Six Chinese Uighur inmates from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the Pacific island nation of Palau, officials say. [Read More]