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AFP – A “Plan B” for saving 33 miners made swift progress in its first days of drilling but engineers Tuesday downplayed chances of a quicker rescue than the two to three months authorities expect.
The …
REUTERS – Afghanistan has frozen the assets of leading shareholders and borrowers at Kabulbank, the country’s top private lender, after the resignation of two top directors triggered a crisis, officials said on Tuesday.
The central bank …
AFP – The US commander of the Afghan war warned Tuesday that a decision by American evangelicals to burn the Koran on 9/11 would endanger his troops as the Muslim world reacted angrily to the …
AFP – The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that 230 civilians had been killed during fighting between government forces and Islamist rebels over the past two weeks in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
“UNHCR is alarmed by the …
AFP – Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck, a two-time Tour de France runner-up, and his Saxo Bank team-mate Stuart O’Grady have pulled out of the Tour of Spain, their team said Tuesday.
The two riders did not take …
AFP – The European Union laid out ambitious goals on Tuesday to strengthen its economy as the European Commission proposed a joint EU-wide bond and ministers approved tighter financial supervision.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso …
AFP – EU members are “wasting their time” trying to claw back the ‘Thatcher rebate’ which returns billions of euros annually to London in place of farm payments to France and Germany, a British minister …
REUTERS – Economic recovery is gathering pace in the European Union and growth this year will be higher than initially forecast, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday.
In a policy speech to the …
AFP – The head of South Korea’s second-largest automaker Kia Motors has resigned to take responsibility for mass vehicle recalls caused by defective electrical wiring, the company said Tuesday.
Chung Sung-Eun, who is also a vice …
AFP – A judge has granted bankruptcy protection to ailing Mexicana airline, which indefinitely suspended all its flights last month, judicial sources said Tuesday.
The group has one year to restructure and avoid bankruptcy, judge Felipe …
REUTERS – Afghanistan has frozen the assets of leading shareholders and borrowers at Kabulbank, the country’s top private lender, after the resignation of two top directors triggered a crisis, officials said on Tuesday.
The central bank …
AFP – Men who wish to attract women on the disco floor would be better advised to learn a few moves that answer the female mating drive rather than bother with the moonwalk.
Psychologists have identified …
AFP – Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, has joined US software giant Oracle as its new co-president, The New York Times said Monday.
Hurd joined Oracle as …
REUTERS – Economic recovery is gathering pace in the European Union and growth this year will be higher than initially forecast, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday.
In a policy speech to the …
AFP – The Palestinian Authority has arrested several Hamas members for organizing and carrying out two recent attacks on Israeli settlers, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The Palestinian security official, speaking to AFP on condition …
AFP – Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Mark Hurd, who resigned last month following a sex scandal, has joined US software giant Oracle as its new co-president, The New York Times said Monday.
Hurd joined Oracle as …
