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Wednesday, 17 January 1996
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- 'We have decided to finish the operation'
- Hijacked ship creeps towards Istanbul
- British troops ordered to arrest war criminals
- Saddam denounces foes as 'hyenas'
- Israeli settlers see their world crumble
- Algerian rebels mark Ramadan in blood
- US wealthy bank on fashion for flat tax
- New York's terrorist sheikh jailed for life
- Pretoria inquiry confirms secret battle for the rhino
- The Queen's man in Sydney loses his palace
- India's old crocodile snaps up rivals
- Settlers despair of saving their world
- Snow is black comedy in a place that shouldn't exist
- French arms industry hit by massive losses
- Bomber sheikh's last message
- Saddam set to take up UN oil offer
- Relief as race to succeed Papandreou starts
- Liberian militia defies peace-keepers
- Mitterrand `had cancer since 1981'
- Berlusconi tax trial opens
- Indian MPs face graft trial
- Woman's plea to die is rejected
- Spin doctor tangled in own yarn
- Weizman outburst stuns Germany
- Mrs Dole feels the Whitewater effect
- Ugly phoenix rises from Kobe's ashes
- China puts the blinkers on news
- No room for quiche in Kohl cuisine
- Dismay as economic reformer quits
- Duma attacks Yeltsin over rescue fiasco
- Russians fail to land knockout blow on rebels
- Left and liberals round on Yeltsin
- Military coup in Sierra Leone
Business
- Vaux froths on talk that Wolves may be closing in
- Loyalty cards pay off for Tesco
- World-wide slump strikes Prudential
- French unrest will damage Photo-Me
- First Leisure lays gloom on thick
- Bono of contention over 'Guardian' ad campaign
- Lloyd's turns up heat on regulation
- Banks and small firms 'getting on better'
- PIA to raise pounds 15m for safety net
- Cable firms set to invest
- Welsh Water agrees to separate listing
- USAir appoints Wolf chairman
- British Gas buys Fiat oil interests
- Gartmore says sale is still on
- Police move in at Wainhomes
- Pensions fines threaten 23 funds
- Lloyd's to turn up heat on regulation
- Granada acquires maximum stake
- Unichem in talks to bid for Lloyds Chemists
- BZW will move all its staff to Canary Wharf
- Price war at pumps will create petrol deserts
- Mixed retail fortunes leave City disappointed
- Hopes undimmed by standstill on interest rates
- Alliance blocks float payouts to the carpetbaggers
- Prospect of lower rates ignites the markets
- Harvey-Jones hit by stroke
- Sex-change economist presents a revised figure
- `Super Tuesday' as US bank results impress
- Debenham's profits collapse
- Cognac sales headache for Remy Cointreau
- New technology gives Microgen a boost
- Prices soar on interest rate hopes and takeover talk
- Anticipating the millennium
- Cable operators bury their heads in the sand
- Fresh Channel 5 bid evidence
- Thompson to take over Deutsche's global deals
- Pet food protest goes untamed
- Ssang Yong buys stake in Caspian
- Peoples Phone pulls float after slow Christmas
- SIB under attack on pensions
- Scottish & Newcastle to cut 1,600 brewing jobs
- Granada raids Forte shares
People
- OBITUARY: Professor Sir Edmund Happold
- OBITUARY: Philip Dunleavy
- OBITUARY: Professor R. P. Bell
- OBITUARY: Kaye Webb
- Director responsible for company's negligence
- Anniversaries: 18th January 1996
- Birthdays: 18th January 1996
- OBITUARY: Professor Howard Purnell
- OBITUARY: Lord McFadzean
- Anniversaries: 17th January 1996
- Birthdays 17th January 1996
- OBITUARY: Dermot Wilson
- OBITUARY: Wilfred Fairclough
- Care order for child at risk must be based on facts
- 1 The ‘Beverly Hills’ of Surrey pays more income tax than big cities of the North
- 2 Austerity has hardened the nation's heart
- 3 Tottenham to smash pay scale with £150,000-a-week contract in attempt to tie Gareth Bale to club
- 4 The moral case on tax avoidance is overwhelming - and we all know Google wants to do the right thing
- 5 Sam Wallace: The second coming of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea will be a reunion that can only end in tears
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