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Every new man in the Kremlin enjoys a honeymoon with the West. And in each case that is followed by bitter disillusion: Mikhail Gorbachev caved in to Kremlin hardliners and proved pitifully ineffective; Yeltsin succumbed to alcohol and the...
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The European Commission on Friday widened its antitrust probe into the proposed acquisition of Rio Tinto Inc. by BHP Billiton Ltd., saying an initial investigation...
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Despite the weak U.S. dollar, a boom in international travel around the world hasn’t translated into an explosion of foreign tourists to the United States.
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Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support would be career suicide.
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Bradford & Bingley PLC said Friday it is revising its plans to raise new capital after U.S. private equity fund Texas Pacific Group pulled out of an agreement to...
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BHP Billiton Ltd. said Friday that China’s Baosteel, negotiating on behalf of the Chinese steel industry, agreed to price hikes of up to 96.5 percent for iron ore...
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The Canadian telecommunications company BCE Inc. said Friday it has agreed on terms of a $35 billion sale to a takeover group led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension...
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European markets fell and Asian markets were mixed Friday as investors digested uneven readings on the U.S. economy and oil prices that remained near records. Japan...
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UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, said Friday it expects its second-quarter results to be “at or slightly below break-even” due to a tax credit that...
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This is what I call the artist’s impression of the product. Who in this world is not an admirer of those starry eyes with long eyelashes? Men died for her good looks...
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The European Union and Russia said Friday they would discuss all aspects of energy cooperation _ including access to energy markets _ during negotiations on broader...
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Indian inflation set another record in the third week in June as prices of food, fuel and steel continued to rise.
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Fireworks aren’t the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high.
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Employers trimmed jobs from their payrolls in June for the sixth straight month, as the government’s closely watched report Thursday showed continued weakness in...
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Japan’s key stock index extended its longest slide in more than a half-century, as record oil prices intensified concerns over the impact on corporate earnings...
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Today, there are Filipinos who graduate from college but are still not able to get a job due to lack of job openings. Since a number of companies decided to close due...
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Some people hate to say things straight forward and this perhaps best describes the over two minutes Round Table Pizza commercial. While watching the ad agency...
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AP, Melbourne
Origin Energy Ltd., Australia’s second largest power retailer, rejected a $13 billion takeover bid Friday from British natural gas producer BG Group.
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Asian markets were mixed Friday as investors digested uneven readings on the U.S. economy and more record oil prices. Japan headed for its 12th straight day of losses.
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AP, Dallas
Many more job cuts, likely totaling more than 6,000, are likely at American Airlines as the nation’s largest airline hunkers down and tries to survive record high...
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A federal judge in New York is urging Eli Lilly and Co. to settle a multibillion-dollar lawsuit filed by insurance companies, unions and others who claim the...
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Even after the end of the Cold War and the rising US political and commercial hegemony, Russia is still nurturing its ambition to revive its former glory by becoming a...
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South Stream, the Black Sea cousin to Russia’s clever Nordstream gas pipeline, may not be the unstoppable fait accompli many seem to think it is, according to...
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Russian energy monopoly Gazprom restored gas supplies to Ukraine on Wednesday, ending a three-day crisis between the two ex-Soviet neighbours that has put the European...
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Russia’s state gas monopoly Gazprom is announcing an end to the reduction in natural gas supplies to Ukraine.
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Russia’s natural gas monopoly Gazprom on Tuesday threatened to further cut gas to Ukraine within hours unless agreement was reached on a debt dispute and...
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For the very first time Russians got a clear picture of the man that is set to succeed popular President Vladimir Putin come March 2008. Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is...
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Price of gas in Europe is expected to rise by up to 17 percent, reaching new heights in next year because of rise in oil prices, according to a warning issued by...
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Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly Gazprom said Tuesday it agreed to settle Ukraine’s debt for gas supplies, seeming to resolve a dispute that has...
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Russia’s state gas monopoly OAO Gazprom said Tuesday it had reached a deal on settling Ukraine’s $1.3 billion (922 million euros) debt for gas supplies.
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Russia’s state-controlled gas monopoly has called off planned gas cuts to its former Soviet neighbor Belarus after Minsk paid a substantial part of a $456 million...
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Gazprom confirmed French energy major Total as its partner to develop the Shtokman natural gas field. Total will control 25 percent stake to finance, build and own the...
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Gazprom has agreed to invest $420 billion in the gas sector by 2030 to ensure enough supplies to the domestic and foreign market.
This announcement strengthens the...
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Gazprom and Italian oil firm Eni have agreed to build a massive pipeline to take Russian gas under the Black Sea to Europe.
In the 50-50 joint venture, ’South Stream’...
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Ultimately, British oil giant BP is knees down before Russians as it has agreed to sell its stake in Kovykta field to Gazprom.
BP, which drilled oil in Siberian oil...
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Gazprom, the largest Russian company and the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world that accounts for about 93% of Russian natural gas production and Russian...
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The Russian oil giant Gazprom, discloses that company is near to increase its presence in Britain.
Gazprom didn’t reveal its partner’s name, but it is...
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Russian regulators have held the much debated and criticized decision on BP license row for the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.
Licensing agency, Rosnedra, is...
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EniNeftegaz, the joint venture company of Italian energy companies Eni and Enel, has won the second lot of Yukos assets auctioned off by the Kremlin to repay the...
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China has recently announced that it is planning to build another 25,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipelines by the year 2010 to support briskly growing economic...
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CEO of Russian state-run natural gas giant Alexei Miller opens a shareholders meeting in Moscow on Friday, June 27, 2008, set to elect new chairman. Miller told the annual shareholders’ meeting Friday the rapidly growing company is still undervalued...
