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BRUSSELS (AFP) - Plans to radically re-draw cross-border economic government across Europe hit a stumbling block on Monday 10 days from a deadline for concrete action set by European Union leaders.Published 3 days, 23 hours, 22 minutes ago |
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia's once-vaunted biofuel industry has seen production grind to a halt since a March announcement that the government's mandatory switch to the green energy will be delayed to June 2011.Published 4 days, 1 hour, 11 minutes ago |
MOSCOW (AFP) - The chief of a top contractor building infrastructure for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Russian city of Sochi has been fired in a corruption scandal, its holding company announced Monday.Published 4 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes ago |
ABU DHABI (AFP) - Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, has hired General Motors' Ted Chu as its chief economist, the investing firm said on Monday.Published 4 days, 1 hour, 56 minutes ago |
LONDON (AFP) - Workers on London's Underground train system started a 24-hour strike over staffing cuts on Monday, threatening disruption for millions of commuters.Published 4 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes ago |
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The World Trade Organization will issue its long-awaited opinion on Europe's challenge to American subsidies to US aerospace giant Boeing next week, a source close to the matter said Monday.Published 4 days, 3 hours, 24 minutes ago |
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African civil servants have suspended their three-week-old strike, a union leader said Monday, but warned workers have not yet agreed to the government's latest wage offer.Published 4 days, 4 hours, 42 minutes ago |
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union's budget commissioner took a swipe on Monday at the billions of euros which Britain gets back from the EU budget.Published 4 days, 4 hours, 51 minutes ago |
PARIS (AFP) - French teachers went on strike Monday on the eve of a nationwide general stoppage called by trade unions opposed to President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62.Published 4 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes ago |
DUBLIN (AFP) - Mounting debts in the state-owned Anglo Irish Bank will not bankrupt the country, Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said on Monday as he held talks in Brussels on the future of the bailed-out lender.Published 4 days, 5 hours, 51 minutes ago |
