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02 Dec 07 : 34 | Report: Over 200 million migrants in the world Geneva - There are over 200 million international migrants in the world, a report released Tuesday said, with nearly as many people moving within developing countries as there are migrants from poorer nations moving to rich ones. The 2008 annual repo... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News 21 hours ago |
25 Nov 20 : 45 | Over 5 million people endorse effort to end violence against women New York - More than 5 million people have signed a petition to support the UN campaign to end violence against women, a programme spearheaded by Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman, the UN said Tuesday. The petition was presented to UN Secretary Gene... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
25 Nov 05 : 36 | Thailand could lose 1.1 million jobs by mid-2009 as exports fall Bangkok - Thailand might see 1.1 million workers lose their jobs by the middle of next year as the global economic downturn bites into the country's exports, media reports said Tuesday. Export orders were expected to drop more than 20 per cent by the... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
01 Dec 17 : 09 | New UNAIDS director appointed to fight global disease New York - Michel Sidibe of Mali was appointed Monday director of the United Nations programme to fight AIDS, a disease that has infected an estimated 33 million people worldwide. The appointment came as the world marked World AIDS Day. ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News 35 hours ago |
19 Nov 20 : 00 | Ban: Pirates received 30 million dollars in ransom this year New York - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that Somali pirates have received 30 million dollars in ransom this year alone. There has been a surge in piracy in 2008 - the latest being the hijacking of a Saudi supertanker, c... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
03 Nov 20 : 36 | US candidates in final push; Chicago set for 1 million - Summary Chicago/Washington - US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain planned one final race across the country on Monday as state officials braced for record turnout in Tuesday's general election. As Chicago prepared for a throng of 1 million... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
03 Nov 17 : 23 | Candidates make final push; Chicago braces for 1 million - Update Chicago, Illinois/Washington - US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain planned one final race across the country on Monday as state officials prepared for record turnout in Tuesday's genera... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
26 Nov 12 : 27 | Somali pirates cut ransom demand for Ukraine tank-ship crew Kiev - Somali pirates holding the crew of a Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with tanks and munitions reduced their ransom demand to a cut-rate three million dollars, Sehodnia newspaper reported Wednesday. The seventeen officers and crew of the MV Faina, ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
25 Nov 13 : 54 | Bulgaria squanders millions as EU corruption clampdown continues Brussels - Bulgaria has missed the chance to claim 220 million euros (280 million dollars) in European Union funds because of ongoing corruption problems, the first time an EU state has ever suffered such a loss, officials in Brussels said Tuesday. T... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
24 Nov 14 : 00 | Court sentences handed out in Siemens secret payments case Nuremberg, Germany - A former top Siemens executive and a former pro-business union leader were sentenced to jail Monday as part of a scandal over illicit payments totalling more than 30 million euros (38 million dollars). A court in the Bavarian cit... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
21 Nov 16 : 42 | Somali insurgents reportedly target pirates holding tanker - Summary Nairobi/Mogadishu - Somali insurgents have entered the port town of Harardhere to tackle pirates who seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker carrying 100 million dollars of crude oil, reports said Friday. Various media, quoting local sources, said that a ... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
20 Nov 21 : 09 | Belfast gets funding boost to kick-start devolved government London/Belfast - The regional government of Northern Ireland said Thursday that it had been given a financial boost of 900 million pounds (1.4 billion dollars) by the government in London to help kick-start devolved government after five months of po... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
20 Nov 11 : 18 | Air France-KLM first-half profits plunge as economic crisis bites Paris - French-Dutch airline Air France-KLM said Thursday that profits for the first half of fiscal year 2008-9 slumped because of the economic slowdown and the high cost of fuel. Operating income fell by 43.9 per cent, to 639 million euros (800 mill... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
18 Nov 14 : 54 | Supertanker seizure ups stakes in piracy battle - Feature Nairobi - Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend when they seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker laden with two million barrels of oil worth almost 100 million dollars. It seems that every month there is... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
14 Nov 09 : 54 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial's net profit down 51 per cent in 6 months Tokyo - Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc saw its net profit drop 51.2 per cent during the April-September period to 83.28 billion yen (870.74 million dollars) from a year earlier, the banking group said Friday. One of Japan's three mega banking gr... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
12 Nov 11 : 09 | French investment bank denies massive trading loss - Update Paris - French investment bank Natixis on Wednesday denied a media report that it had lost 975 million euros (1.23 billion dollars) in trading last month. The business daily La Tribune had reported the massive loss earlier Wednesday, and claimed that... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
10 Nov 08 : 18 | Recession forces 7,000 small-and-medium businesses close in Taiwan Taipei - More than 7,000 small-and-medium enterprises have shut down in Taiwan in the past two years due to recession, a government agency announced Monday. At the end of 2006, there were 1.23 million small-and-medium enterprises in Taiwan. By the e... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
05 Nov 17 : 09 | ANALYSIS: Obama leaves Florida discussing policy towards Cuba Miami - The victory of Democratic candidate Barack Obama in Tuesday's US presidential election was so solid that he even scored a clear win in Florida - one of the toughest states -as he made his way to the White House. Obama obtained 3.99 million vo... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
04 Nov 21 : 48 | SIDEBAR: Crowds in celebratory mood at Obama's Chicago rally site Chicago - Lines had formed by midday outside Chicago's Grant Park, where up to a million people are expected to gather to witness Illinois Senator Barack Obama's post-election rally late Tuesday. Chicago residents Nick Boten, 37, and Scott Larson, 38... Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper - World News |
