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Published 07/02/2009 by Xinhua News Agency


Euro-zone unemployment rate hits 10-year high

BRUSSELS, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Unemployment rate in the 16-member euro-zone hit a ten-year high in May, reaching 9.5 percent, Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union (EU), announced on Thursday.

The figure was higher than April's 9.3 percent, and some 273,000 jobs were lost across...

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