The Thai government fell today after prime minister Somchai Wongsawat accepted a court order to step down over allegations of corruption. But 7,000 Britons are still facing a battle to get home with the country's airport authority announcing Bangkok ...
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a unilateral US withdrawal from Iraq will leave Washington with virtually nothing of substance to offer Iran in return for the verifiable termination of Tehran’s nuclear weapons program, says David H. Young . There are certain fundamentals to an ...
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Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Latvia’s rescue of Parex Bank AS, the country’s second-biggest lender, hinges on getting all of the bank’s almost 60 creditors to agree not to call in their loans. Latvia’s plan to take control of Parex will trigger an ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal jury has cleared Chevron Corp. of responsibility for any human rights abuses during a violent protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria a decade ago. The verdict on Monday was a setback for human rights activists ...
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Part of writing my latest column required interviewing Michael Wolff, a friend and the author of the new Rupert Murdoch bio “The Man Who Owns The News.” After some negotiation, the interview took the form of a lengthy discussion-cum-argument ...
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RIGA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Latvia is seeking between 1 billion and 3 billion euros ($1.3-3.90 billion) from the International Monetary Fund and European Commission, with final sums depending on an economic plan under negotiation, the Finance Ministry ...
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www.speea.org - With one of the largest ballot returns in union history, engineers and technical workers approved new four-year contracts with The Boeing Company. The agreements took effect at midnight and run to Oct. 6, 2012. At stake were contracts ...
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