Archive for April 27th, 2008
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Britain's ruling Labor Party traced behind the Conservatives by 10 percent in a new poll released on Sunday.
Published on the eve of local elections in England and Wales, the ICM survey put the Tories at 39 percent, Labor at 29 perc ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Energy giant British Petroleum (BP) was shutting down a pipeline carrying nearly half of Britain's oil late Saturday ahead of a 48-hour strike over pension issues.
The Forties Pipeline System was due to completely shut down by 6:00 ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Northwest Airlines will match fare increases put in place by other major United States carriers.
Northwest said from its Minnesota headquarters on Friday night that it will match the 3-5 percent increases first implemented on Thursd ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
A group of shoppers came into Farmer Joe's Marketplace in Oakland, California, one morning last week and bought all the 50-pound (22.68-kilogram) bags of rice. A few kilometers away at Berkeley Bowl Marketplace, long-grain rice is sold out. ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Google Inc believes regulators would not bar a potential deal with Yahoo Inc because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright merger, claim sources familiar with Google's strategy.
Yahoo is exploring alternatives t ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Two roadside bombs detonated coordinately near an Iraqi Army foot-patrol in western Baghdad on Sunday, killing an officer and wounding four of his soldiers, an Interior Ministry source said.
The attack took place around 7 a.m. (0400 ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Britain's ruling Labor Party traced behind the Conservatives by 10 percent in a new poll released on Sunday.
Published on the eve of local elections in England and Wales, the ICM survey put the Tories at 39 percent, Labor at 29 perc ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
U.S. former UN ambassador Bill Richardson met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Saturday to seek help for the release of three U.S. hostages held by Colombia's largest rebel group.
The three U.S. defence contractors have been he ...
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