The Media Line Staff Gaza, Palestinian Territory (TML) – Um Hajjar Al-Ghalayini, 46 years old, owns half an acre of sandy Gaza land that produces two tons of strawberries every season. Since her husband died two years ago, the crop is the sole means of support for her nine children, mother-in-law and widowed sister, so [...]
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Red-Berry Day in Gaza, as Farm Products Leave for Europe
November 29th, 2010 
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No Comments »Group Bans Catches Of Some Sharks, Leaves Tuna Limits Little Changed
November 28th, 2010 admin Paris, France (NewsBahn) – Delegates from 48 countries ended a week-long conservation conference here Saturday with an agreement on new protections for several species of endangered sharks, but failed to tighten limits on harvesting bluefin tuna. Members of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas voted to ban the fishing and sale of [...]
Posted in Stock Market Tags: Atlantic, atlantic bluefin tuna, atlantic tunas, Bans, bluefin, Catches, Changed, conservation, Dr. Michael Hirshfield, eastern Atlantic, endangered sharks, Europe, fishing, France, group, Japan, Leaves, Limits, Little, Maria Jose Cornax, Mediterranean, Mexico, Oceana, Paris, quota, quota reductions, Sharks, Some, the Gulf, Tuna, U.S., western Atlantic, whitetip sharks No Comments »SAP ordered to pay Oracle $1.3bn in the biggest-ever award for copyright infringement
November 23rd, 2010 admin SAP, Europe’s biggest software company, has been ordered by a US court to pay Oracle $1.3bn (£820m) in the biggest-ever award for copyright infringement. View full post on UK Business Stories
Posted in Make Money Investing Tags: $1.3bn, award, biggestever, company, copyright, copyright infringement, court, Europe, infringement, Oracle, ordered, SAP, software, software company, UK, uk business, US No Comments »Campbell Soup 1Q Profit Down 8 Percent
November 23rd, 2010 admin Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Camden, NJ, United States (AHN) – Campbell Soup’s earnings for the first quarter of 2011 slid 8 percent but the company maintained its full fiscal year outlook. Net income for the period ended Oct. 31 was $279 million, or 82 cents per share, down from $304 million, or 87 [...]
Posted in Make Money Investing Tags: AHN, Asia, Camden, Campbell, Campbell Soup, double digit growth, Douglas Conant, Down, Europe, Latin America, margin pressures, New Jersey, NJ, Pacific, percent, product launches, profit, segment, share, Soup, soup season, U.S., United States, year No Comments »Osborne Pledges $10.5 Billion Assistance To Ireland
November 18th, 2010 admin AHN News Staff Brussels, Belgium (AHN) – Despite Ireland’s insistence that Dublin still has sufficient cash and does not need an international bailout now, British Chancellor George Osborne pledged Wednesday to provide Ireland with $10.5 billion (GBP7 billion) in assistance. Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom, but Britain has other reasons to extend [...]
Posted in Stock Market Tags: $10.5, AHN, allied irish bank, Assistance, bailout, bank, bank for international settlements, Belgium, Billion, Britain, BRUSSELS, Chancellor George Osborne, Dublin, economic sovereignty, Europe, GBP, global stock markets, Ireland, London, Minister Brian Lenihan, Osborne, part, Pledges, royal bank of scotland, United Kingdom No Comments »Report: Mexican Drug Cartels Spreading to Other Countries
November 15th, 2010 admin Tom Ramstack – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – New government reports indicate Mexican drug cartels are making a bigger push to organize their black market activities in the United States, Europe and neighboring Latin American countries. In one example, some reports indicate the cartels are associating with white supremacists in the [...]
Posted in Stock Market Tags: AHN, alcohol tobacco firearms, Antonio Mazzitelli, Aryan, aryan brotherhood, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, California, california prison system, Cartels, Central America, Central American, Chicago, Countries, D.C., DEA, Drug, drug enforcement administration, El Salvador, Europe, Guatemala, Honduras, Latin America, Mexican, mexican drug cartels, Mexico, New York, news, Report, Sierra Leone, South American, Spreading, Texas, U.S., U.S. Drug, United States, Valencia, Walid Makled, Washington, West Africa No Comments »Apple to bring iPhone ads to Europe
November 14th, 2010 admin The US technology group which has twice delayed iAd’s European launch in recent weeks is set to announce the first brands to use the service in Europe View full post on UK Business Stories
Posted in Make Money Investing Tags: Apple, bring, Europe, group, iAd, iPhone, launch, service, technology, technology group, UK, uk business, US No Comments »Amnesty Criticizes Hungary Over Roma Violence
November 11th, 2010 admin AHN News Staff Budapest, Hungary (AHN) – Amnesty International has blasted Hungary for failing to protect the country’s largest Roma population from violence. Identifying shortcomings and gaps in country’s criminal justice system, the human rights group said that police surprisingly failed to record some of the attacks happened between 2008 and 2009 – a charge [...]
EU threatens to block Chinese bids for public contracts
November 9th, 2010 admin Europe moves to block Chinese companies bidding for government contracts unless China reciprocates. View full post on UK Business Stories
Posted in Make Money Investing Tags: bids, block, business, China, Chinese, chinese companies, contracts, Europe, Government, government contracts, post, public, Stories, threatens, UK, uk business, View No Comments »Nestle Reports Strong Nine-Month Sales
October 23rd, 2010 admin Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Vevey, Switzerland (AHN) – Nestle reported better-than-expected sales in the first nine months of the year on Friday and maintained its forecast for the full year. Sales from January through September grew to 82.8 billion Swiss francs ($85.2 billion), up 4.1 percent from 79.5 billion Swiss francs ($81.8 billion) [...]
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