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By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
VIENNA, (Reuters) – Countries which promise to fight corruption will now have to prove they are doing it thanks to a new series of reports, …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez is stirring trouble with Colombia to disguise domestic failures and Venezuela would be “mad” to enter a …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
WASHINGTON, Reuters) – The White House squeezed Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday to show more resolve in fighting corruption and said President Barack Obama’s war …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – H1N1 swine flu killed an estimated 3,900 Americans from April to October, including more than 500 children, U.S. health officials said yesterday.
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By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
MADRID/LONDON, (Reuters) – British Airways and Spain’s Iberia announced yesterday a preliminary agreement for a $7 billion merger to create the world’s third-largest airline by …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Army has charged a military psychiatrist with 13 counts of murder in last week’s shooting spree at the Fort Hood …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – If South American neighbors Venezuela and Colombia are about to go to war, you would never guess it on the …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Destruction of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil has fallen to its lowest annual level in 21 years, the government said yesterday, …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Federal agents investigating a prominent Florida lawyer suspected of running an elaborate Ponzi scheme said yesterday the amount involved could exceed $1 …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit yesterday to seize control of a New York City skyscraper they say is owned by …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – The founder of hedge fund manager Dynamic Decisions denied its main fund has been involved in any wrongdoing as Britain’s Serious Fraud …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government blamed a severe storm for the power outage that put the country’s economic heartland in the dark for more …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
SINGAPORE – A naval skirmish between the two Koreas will not derail the Obama administration’s plans to send its first envoy to Pyongyang to revive …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
SAO PAULO, (Reuters – A major electricity outage left tens of millions of people in Brazil’s two largest cities of Sao Paulo and Rio De …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Pushing for tougher changes in U.S. financial regulations, the Senate’s top banking legislator yesterday proposed a new super-cop to police banks, a …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
LONDON, (Reuters) – The government plans to raise the minimum jail sentence for people convicted of murder using a knife to 25 years from 15 …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A former Russian policeman, who accused officers in his home town of corruption in blogs that had more than one million Internet …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
PARIS/LONDON – The world faces a surge in energy costs, as well as an increase in planet-warming carbon emissions, unless it agrees a climate change …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday said it imposed sanctions on 14 people and 25 companies in Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands that …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
MOBILE, Ala., (Reuters) – Ida dwindled to a tropical depression on Tuesday after crawling ashore in Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico, and oil operations …
