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The European Central Bark is warning Cyprus that is has only four days to agree on a new plan to raise funds to avoid bankruptcy. Otherwise it will pull the plug on the country’s banks at the start of next week if no bailout solution is found.

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The former mayor of Bell, California and four former City Council members were convicted on Wednesday of misappropriating city funds to inflate their own salaries. One former council member was cleared.

Five former elected officials of the small, blue-collar California city of Bell were convicted Wednesday of multiple counts of misappropriating public funds by paying themselves huge salaries while raising taxes on residents.

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SAC Capital up 4 percent this year as probe continues. Federal Reserve sees slow recovery for years to come. UK sticks with austerity as growth forecast cut. Impact of “sequester” budget cuts on jobs may be exaggerated

A lawyer for IMF chief Christine Lagarde says French authorities searched her Paris apartment in an investigation into a 2008 arbitration payment to Bernard Tapie, a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, while she was Sarkozy’s finance minister. Sarah Irwin reports.

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British finance minister George Osborne has turned to the Bank of England to do more to help spur the country’s stagnant economy as he announced a halving of this year’s growth forecast. ROUGH CUT (No reporter narration).

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