The Defense Ministry says hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime.
Italy´s antitrust regulator said on Monday it has renewed an inquiry to determine the size of a fine that Total Italia must pay for participating in a jet fuel price agreement with other energy companies.
The United States says major world powers will have no choice but to pursue new sanctions against Iran in the absence of a positive reply to their offer of incentives for it to halt uranium enrichment. The State Department says a written response to the offer is expected Tuesday.
British Airways, which is already in talks with Spain´s Iberia SA over a merger, said Monday it hopes to seal an alliance with its U.S. partner American Airlines within weeks.
The government is putting millions of Medicare dollars at risk by authorizing fake companies that sell wheelchairs, prosthetics and other medical supplies to submit reimbursement claims, congressional investigators said, according to the Associated Press.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is expanding its inquiry into potential privacy violations of online advertising that is targeted based on consumers´ Web-surfing activities.
A U.S. Court of appeals has ruled that Cablevision can, in fact, offer DVRs in the cloud, eliminating the hardware necessary in the viewers´ homes. That technology, strongly opposed by the media companies, removes a significant cost and hardware burden for the cable companies and also gives them a competitive advantage against satellite providers. The case may go to the Supreme Court.
Group Danone SA lost its application to appeal a Chinese arbitration commission´s ruling in favor of estranged China partner Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co. in a trademark ownership dispute, both companies said today.
German authorities received documents with possible data on Liechtenstein bank accounts used by tax evaders, a development that may spawn new criminal probes and widen a scandal that has spread to the U.S. and other countries.
UBS AG, Europe´s biggest bank by assets, won a court order stopping a company set up by former employees from its London-based wealth management unit from soliciting UBS staff and clients.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown formally notified the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday that the state would file a lawsuit against the agency if it refused to issue rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft, industrial and agricultural machinery, and other vehicles.
IndyMac Bancorp Inc., the second-largest U.S. independent mortgage lender before it was seized by federal bank regulators three weeks ago, filed to liquidate its remaining assets under bankruptcy protection.
President Bush approved an order that rewrites the rules governing spying by U.S. intelligence agencies, both in the United States and abroad, and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, according to a U.S. official and government documents.
Senate Republicans Wednesday successfully voted down an effort to pass a bipartisan "media shield" law that would protect reporters from being forced to reveal their sources in court.
According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Tuesday urged Iran to prove its interest in better relations by accepting the big-power offer of incentives for Tehran to stop uranium enrichment. Rice was responding to interview remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Iran wants to seek "common ground" with Washington on the nuclear issue.
France´s agriculture minister said Wednesday that "big emerging countries" were to blame for the collapse of World Trade Organization talks on opening up the global economy.
The Basmany Court in Moscow resumed proceedings Monday in a lawsuit filed by the Russian Federal Customs Service against the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYMellon) under the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute.
The armed forces of the United Kingdom may have used officially-banned tactics to interrogate detainees in Iraq, according to a report released Sunday by Parliament´s Joint Committee on Human Rights.
An environmental group has sued to force the Environmental Protection Agency to ban an insecticide widely used on fruit and vegetable crops in the Central Valley.
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