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Earnings are higher, the retailer is making acquisitions, and an IPO is expected early next year When a trio of private equity buyers snapped up Toys "R" Us in 2005, many predicted the retailer wouldn't survive. Instead, Toys...
Americans Seek Up to 7,000 Extra NATO Troops for Ramp-Up in Afghanistan By PETER SPIEGEL and STEPHEN FIDLER WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is in advanced talks with its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for a...
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday his administration would strive to increase American exports to Asia-Pacific countries to create jobs back home. "If we can increase our exports to...
The warning came as the latest evidence on the supply of credit to the British economy showed little sign of radical improvements. The Bank of England's Trends In Lending Report confirmed that British consumers were still...
Last October, the president of the island nation of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, made all his ministers put on diving gear and held the first underwater cabinet meeting in history. His point? If nothing is done to slow global...
Bloomberg - Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services...
Some 18,000 Chadians returning to their villagers after fleeing inter-communal violence and a spill-over of the conflict from neighbouring Sudan’s Darfur region are in dire need for international aid. The United Nations has...
Kigali — The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations to follow suit. Allan Doss, the United Nations top envoy...
The H1N1 virus has been showing signs of mutation and resistance to the Tamiflu medication. Deaths in Norway are variously considered isolated events as results of “spontaneous mutations”. Current information is that the...
