ABN Amro, the largest Dutch bank, and Barclays of Britain announced Monday that they had agreed to merge, in one of the largest European banking deals ever. The deal is reportedly worth more than $90 billion.
Anglo American Plc, the world´s second-largest mining company, will pay $1.15 billion for 49 percent of the Brazilian iron-ore project MMX Minas-Rio, the first acquisition by Chief Executive Officer Cynthia Carroll.
Carrefour, the world´s second-largest retailer, said on Monday it would buy Brazilian retail chain Atacadao for 825 million euros ($1.12 billion), making it the country´s leading food retailer by sales
Thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets of Caracas in protest at the president´s decision to close the country´s oldest private TV network.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative, and Ségolène Royal, the Socialist, won the first round of the presidential election on Sunday, setting up a classic left-right contest next month between two candidates with competing visions of how to govern France.
President Rafael Correa’s proposal to rewrite Ecuador’s Constitution won.
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin has died at the age of 76, the Kremlin said on Monday.
Paul D. Wolfowitz sought Wednesday to quell discontent over his leadership of the World Bank by promising top aides that he would change his management style, but he suffered a blow when one of those aides urged him to resign, bank officials said.
A pillar of the Democrats’ program tumbled on Wednesday when the Senate blocked a proposal to let Medicare negotiate lower drug prices for millions of older Americans, a practice now forbidden by law.
Federal privacy and antidiscrimination laws restrict how universities can deal with students who have mental health problems.
The European Union agreed on Thursday on a watered-down anti-racism law, reflecting wide divergences among the bloc´s 27 states on how to tackle racial prejudice and genocide denial.
Gov. John Lynch said Thursday he will sign legislation establishing civil unions for gay couples in New Hampshire.
Arcelor Mittal´s $5.4 billion plan to buy out the minority shareholders of its Brazilian unit was approved by Brazil´s securities regulator.
Dutch brewers including Heineken and Grolsch have been fined a total of 273.7m euros (£185m) by European regulators for price fixing.
Rwanda has asked the International Court of Justice to quash French arrest warrants issued against nine associates of President Paul Kagame
Five weeks ago, a Virginia Tech student walked into a nondescript gun store next to a pawn shop in Roanoke, Va., and paid $571 for a Glock 9-millimeter handgun and a box of ammunition.
The Supreme Court´s conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions.
Brazil´s antitrust agency limited the takeover of Grupo Ipiranga´s assets by Petroleo Brasileiro SA and another company until a review is completed on whether the purchase may hurt competition.
A few Brazilian companies are planning to establish businesses in India and will open representative offices in the next few months.
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