Barclays is closing the bank accounts of British customers, who are working in this country for businesses linked to Iran, to conform with US anti-terror laws.
Police in Tibet have arrested 16 Buddhist monks and are seeking three more for their alleged involvement in one bombing and two attempted bombings, authorities in Tibet told state-run media.
Federal officials unsealed one indictment Thursday alleging co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III of chip maker Broadcom Corp. spiked the drinks of technology executives and customer representatives with ecstasy and maintained a warehouse for ecstasy, cocaine and methamphetamine.
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The Virginia-based National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) brought a class action lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday, alleging on behalf of over 800 black farmers that the USDA improperly discriminated against them in its allocation of resources.
In the latest sign of its ambitious growth plans, Google Inc. has signed a 40-year lease to secure space for a huge office complex that will be built on a federal government research center near the Internet search leader´s Silicon Valley headquarters.
Turkey´s Constitutional Court is expected to rule Thursday on an opposition motion to keep Muslim head scarves off university campuses - a ruling that could hold ominous portents for the Islamic-oriented government.
Internet major Yahoo, which has come under attack for sabotaging any potential takeover of the company, today said it is open to any deal, including a sale to Microsoft, if it benefits shareholders.
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) accused the UN Human Rights Council of “undermining” the freedom of expression in the name of religious sensibilities" in a resolution the two groups adopted Tuesday.
The BBC was yesterday accused of fuelling racist attacks on Polish immigrants.
Conservative MP Danny Kawczynski said the BBC´s coverage of immigration issues tended to concentrate on Poles even though most immigrants to the UK came from outside Europe.
Negotiations on a final text were due to go on until late in the evening but officials at the food and agriculture organisation (FAO), hosting the summit, said the talks were aimed at watering down the joint declaration to the point at which all delegations could accept it.
Deutsche Post AG, Europe´s biggest mail carrier, lost a trademark lawsuit seeking to stop competitors from using the word “Post” in their names.
Antoin Rezko, a once-powerful fund-raiser who helped propel the career of Senator Barack Obama, was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury of 16 criminal counts, including fraud, money-laundering, and bribery in an influence-peddling scheme that touched the highest levels of the administration of Governor Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois.
Barclays Plc, Lloyds TSB Group Plc and other U.K. banks and retailers overcharge by as much as 1.4 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) a year on payment-protection insurance because consumers aren´t advised they can choose other providers, a U.K. antitrust regulator said today.
A Chinese official has dismissed a new US report on the state of Chinese human rights, calling it incorrect and groundless.
The United States complained to the World Trade Organization about the European Union´s tariffs on electronic equipment. The complaint is founded on WTO´s 1996 Information Technology Agreement (ITA), which slashed tariffs on a range of high-tech goods to boost trade between countries on computers and electronics.
About 400 protesting fishermen from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal blocked the main boulevard through Brussels´ European Union quarter on Wednesday to demand the EU do more to ease high fuel prices.
No U.S. beef will exported to South Korea until the countries agree on limiting shipments to meat from cattle of a certain age, South Korea´s agriculture minister said Tuesday.
The airline industry will lose $2.3 billion this year because of hikes in oil prices, the world airlines group said Monday, revising its earlier forecast of a collective industry profit.
The U.N. Security Council on Monday gave nations new powers to pursue pirates into the waters off Somalia, an effort to combat a new spate of hijackings off the Horn of Africa.
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