BRUSSELS - European Union staff said on Tuesday that they will strike next week for their right to pocket an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise which member states say shows double standards. Employees of the European Council -- the body that r
BERLIN - German automaker Daimler will hold its interest in the European aerospace group EADS at 15 percent and will not retrieve a 7.5-percent stake from German banks, Daimler's finance director said on Tuesday. We have decided to lower our parti
OTTAWA - Canadian building intentions soared past expectations in October, with the value of building permits rising 18 percent from September due largely to strength in nonresidential projects, Statistics Canada said on Monday. Analysts in a Reute
FRANKFURT - Germany's Volkswagen AG says it has purchased an initial 49.9 percent stake in fellow car maker Porsche AG — carrying out a move that it had been expected to make this week. VW, based in Wolfsburg, said Monday that it paid euro3.9
JOHANNESBURG - The government of Equatorial Guinea says the African country's ruler of 30 years has been re-elected with 95.37 percent of votes, while opponents and international human rights groups denounced the electoral process in Africa's No. 3
FRANKFURT - The Frankfurt airport, Europe's third biggest hub after London Heathrow and Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, wants to raise its rates by 12.5 percent by October 2011, it said on Tuesday. The measure would cover landing fees, charges for noise,
JOHANNESBURG - Equatorial Guinea — a violent land of coups, petrodollar wealth and killer poverty — is holding a presidential election Sunday that its leader of 30 years says he will win by more than the 97 percent garnered in the last w
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's infant mortality rate has risen by 20 percent over the past two decades as children under five succumb to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and pneumonia, a joint government and United Nations survey showed on Tuesday. The United N
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