South Korea launched a special investigation into Samsung Group SAGR.UL on Thursday on suspicions the country´s largest conglomerate bribed public officials to squash investigations into its management practices.
President George W. Bush told Palestinians on Thursday he believed they would sign a peace treaty with Israel within a year that would give them their own state.
With an eye on the weather forecast and faith in their organizations, the presidential candidates wound down their Iowa caucus campaigns on Thursday and sought to manage their expectations as they nervously awaited a verdict from voters in the first contest of the presidential nominating season.
Under a sweeping decree that took effect Wednesday, smoking has been banned in every commercial corner of “entertainment and conviviality” — from the toniest Parisian nightclub to the humblest village cafe.
President Bush signed legislation on Wednesday lifting
Thousands of Iraqis in custody have yet to be charged
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan
Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined the EU´s border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
Austria´s chancellor and Slovakia´s prime minister sawed through a red and white frontier barrier on Thursday in symbolic preparation for nine new countries joining the EU´s border-free zone at midnight.
U.S. antitrust regulators approved Google Inc.´s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. Thursday, removing a key obstacle to a formidable combination in the burgeoning online advertising sector.
The US Congress has approved the first major gun legislation since 1994, improving background checks on buyers.
Lee Myung-bak, a conservative politician famous for his success in business but dogged by questions about his character, swept to a huge victory on Wednesday in a presidential election dominated by economic concerns.
President Bush signed into law Wednesday legislation that will bring more fuel-efficient vehicles into auto showrooms and require wider use of ethanol, calling it ´´a major step´´ toward energy independence and easing global warming.
Morgan Stanley posted its first quarterly loss ever on Wednesday after taking an additional $5.7 billion write-down related to subprime mortgages. The investment bank said it would sell a $5 billion stake to the China Investment Corporation, that country’s sovereign wealth fund, to shore up its capital.
Oil prices slumped below $90 a barrel on Tuesday amid rising worries that a global economic slowdown could slash energy demand.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed new rules intended to protect would-be home buyers from unscrupulous lenders and, in a sense, from themselves.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bush administration to defend its decision to destroy videotapes of CIA interrogations of two al-Qaida suspects.
Russia made its first delivery of nuclear fuel on Sunday to an Iranian power plant that is at the center of an international dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, the Russian Foreign Ministry and a spokeswoman for the Russian company overseeing the project said Monday.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed into law Monday a measure that abolishes the death penalty, making New Jersey the first state in more than four decades to reject capital punishment.
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