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Melody to Head New Barney & Barney European Office in Germany Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Article Reprints San Diego-based Barney & Barney LLC, one of the U.S.40 largest insurance brokerages, has announced the creation of a new international position it has established in Stuttgart, Ge...
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Europe offers skeptical reaction to Iran nuke plan Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
PARIS (AP) - European powers reacted skeptically Wednesday to Iran's offer to send uranium abroad for enrichment as a way of ending its showdown with the West. French Foreign Ministry Bernard Kouchner...
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Europe offers skeptical reaction to Iran nuke plan Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
PARIS — European powers reacted skeptically Wednesday to Iran's offer to send uranium abroad for enrichment as a way of ending its showdown with the West. French Foreign Ministry Bernard Ko...
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Ready to Fight Europe's Vested Interests Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Bulgaria's EC Designate Kristalina Georgieva has voiced firm determination to fight against the vested interests across the European Union, if confirmed for Commissioner for humanitarian aid. “...
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Europe offers skeptical reaction to Iran nuke plan Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Iran said on Tuesday it was ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the U.N. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the decision in an interview with state Iranian te...
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Europe offers skeptical reaction to Iran nuke plan Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
PARIS (AP) - European powers reacted skeptically Wednesday to Iran's offer to send uranium abroad for enrichment as a way of ending its showdown with the West. French Foreign Ministry Bernard Kou...
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Tomb with a pay-per-view Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Extreme sports fan survives avalanche An extreme sports fan has told how he survived being buried alive in an icy tomb when he was engulfed in an avalanche.
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European Stocks Erase Advance; Stoxx 600 Index Is Little Changed Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks erased their advance as Electrolux AB and Outokumpu Oyj declined. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index was little changed at 250.69 as of 12:36 p.m. in London, having ea...
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Church speaks out after Wagner comments on earthquake Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Senior Catholic figures in Austria have been forced to speak out after controversial comments by an ultra-conservative pastor over the Haiti earthquake.
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Ministry to contribute €1mn for food aid Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The Agriculture Ministry is to spend one million Euros this month on food and other aid for crisis areas around the world, the ministry has said.
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New car sales off to good start in 2010 Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
There were 20,950 new cars sold in January - a year on year increase of 10.3 per cent and a month on month increase of 7.9 per cent - Statistik Austria reported yesterday (Mon). The agency said VW ha...
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Teak Holz to expand supervisory board Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
The firm said the expansion of the board from three to four members came after a demand from shareholder Klaus Hennerbichler, who has 1,585,965 shares or an interest of more than five per cent in the ...
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Tennis stars jail dad Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Judges are to give their verdict on tennis star Jelena Dokic's troubled father's appeal against his 15 months prison sentence today (Wednesday).
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Herbal undies cure cellulite claim Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Advantage Organic in New Delhi craft the special pants using extracts from healing neem trees, basil leaves and threads of pure silver. Neem - a type of mahogany known as the Divine Tree in India - h...
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Mobilkom Austria's Belarusian subsidiary gets UMTS licence Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Austrian telecommunications firm Mobilkom Austria today (Tues) announced its Belarusian subsidiary Velcom had been granted a 9.5 million-Euro country-wide universal mobile telecommunication system (UM...
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Credit crunch squeezes diesel sales Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Christoph Capek, general manager of the Federal Mineral Oil Industry Association (FVMI), said today (Tues) diesel sales were down 3.9 per cent year on year to seven billion litres in 2009 as businesse...
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Savings accounts pay practically no interest Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
AK consumer-protection expert Michaela Kollmann said today (Tues) that a recent AK "Mystery-Shopping-Test" at nine banks had shown that savings accounts at the banks were paying an average o...
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Anton Zeilinger gets Wolf Prize for Physics Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Vienna University physicist Anton Zeilinger has won the "Wolf Prize 2010 for Physics" along with two other scientists, the university announced today (Tues).
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OMV in €500mn bond issue Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
A spokeswoman for the firm declined to provide any more information, but confirmed Bloomberg financial website's report on the bond issue. The website reported that Barclays Capital, Raiffeisen Zentr...
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Robbers flee as victim fights back Print E-mail
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
General News 2010-02-02 A gang of robbers fled empty-handed after their 40-year-old female victim smashed one of them over the head with a torch.
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