Monday, 12 November 2012

World News - 12th November 2012

- The Greek government has passed its latest budget by 167 votes to 128 which means that they can be granted a 31.5 billion loan to stop the country going into bankruptcy.
The timing of the vote comes as Eurozone finance ministers are due to discuss the Greece crisis in Brussels.

- Australia and the UK are in the depth of trying to sort out allegations of child abuse with Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard calling for national inquiry concerning following claims by the police and law makers that the Roman Catholic Church had tried to cover up evidence about paedophile priests.

- The BBC continue to have problems with their management with the resigning of George Entwistle and now with the director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Steve Mitchell both being asked to step down pending the results of the pollard inquiry.

- Top executives in some of the leading companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Google are being asked to present to parliament today on the issue of Tax avoidance in front of the public accounts committee on taxing multinationals.

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