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* Busen Garments, Nexgo scrap plans to set up micro loan
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WASHINGTON/CARACAS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President
Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday that Venezuelan-American
executives at refiner Citgo who were arrested in a corruption
sweep this week would be tried as "corrupt, thieving traitors"
despite a request by the United States to free them.
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SAO PAULO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A new version of Brazil's
unpopular pension reform bill presented on Wednesday would
require fewer years of contributions by private sector workers
to receive a pension, according a draft of the legislation that
the government hopes will win approval in Congress.
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Nov 23 (Reuters) - Australian shares fell slightly on
Thursday on broad-based selling, though gains in materials
stocks from higher commodity prices capped some of the losses.
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Lobby group urges government to incorporate a host of international agreements into UK law
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SAO PAULO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A new version of Brazil's
unpopular pension reform bill will require fewer years of
contributions by private sector workers to receive a pension,
according a draft of the legislation that the government hopes
will win approval in Congress.
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WASHINGTON/CARACAS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Five of six
executives of U.S.-based refiner Citgo who were
arrested in Caracas this week are U.S. citizens, according to a
source familiar with the matter, possibly complicating
Venezuela's corruption sweep of the oil industry.
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SHANGHAI, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Police in southern China have
detained seven people in connection with an underground banking
scheme involving more than 20 billion yuan ($3 billion), the
state news agency Xinhua reported.
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SAO PAULO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian antitrust agency
Cade on Wednesday extended its deadline to review the takeover
of Monsanto Co by Bayer AG by 90 days to late
March, potentially spoiling plans to wrap up the $66 billion
tie-up by the end of the year.
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Nov 22 (Reuters) - A former general counsel of insurer
WellCare Health Plans Inc was sentenced on Wednesday to
six months in prison for making a false statement to Florida's
Medicaid program as part of what prosecutors called a $35
million healthcare fraud scheme.