Sunday 24 June 2012

Cameron proposes scrapping youth housing subsidies

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has proposed scrapping rent subsidies for Britons under age 25, in a newspaper interview on Sunday that may heighten tension with his Conservative Party's Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

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Insight: ANC promises ring hollow in home of South Africa greats

ENTSHINGENI, South Africa (Reuters) - First graders huddle to do sums on scraps of paper pressed against a cracked mud wall at Mwezeni Primary School in South Africa's destitute Eastern Cape province.

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Greek PM, incoming finance minister to miss EU summit

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who underwent eye surgery on Saturday, will not attend a summit of EU leaders on June 28-29, when Athens will seek to ease the punishing terms of its international bailout, a government spokesman said.



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Turkey blames Syria for jet attack, consults NATO

ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) - Turkey accused Syria on Sunday of shooting down a military plane in international airspace without warning and called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.



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