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Rebels from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta on Thursday claimed responsibility for the attack on Royal Dutch Shell’s Bonga oilfield and the kidnapping of an American oil worker.
The rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta...
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Mexico asked the World Court on Thursday to take urgent steps to stop imminent U.S. executions of five Mexicans on death row who were denied their rights to consular assistance.
One of the five, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas, which...
Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded hundreds of Taliban on Thursday in an offensive to clear the militants from the outskirts of Kandahar city, the provincial governor said.
NATO confirmed in a statement issued in Kabul that Taliban fighters,...
A sharp rise in British retail sales pierced the global economic gloom like a rare shaft of sunlight on Thursday, but other developments showed that hopes that storm clouds would disperse were premature.
A Reuters survey said business pessimism was...
The U.S. housing crisis produced its first high-profile Wall Street arrests on Thursday, while the Bush administration called for broadening the Federal Reserve’s powers over investment banks and said it has charged hundreds of people in a...
European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for five years.
Criticized by groups like Amnesty International as “severely...
Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP...
Web communications leader Skype begins public testing on Wednesday of a new version of its software for making free or low-cost phone calls that aims to make casual video chatting more common.The Luxembourg-based unit of online auction leader eBay Inc...
he Instinct, Sprint Nextel Corp’s (S.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) answer to the iPhone, will sell for $130 after rebate, Sprint said on Wednesday.Sprint, which has been suffering from steep customer losses, has said it will spend more...
Know someone who loves gadgets and can’t wait to buy the newest model? Chances are you would describe them as assertive and a strong leader — and possibly arrogant, according a U.S. research.An online study evaluating the characteristics of...
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