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Feb 7th, 2012
(Reuters) - Workers of a snow removal company discuss in front of their plough trucks as municipality cleans the snow from the streets overnight in Bucharest, February 7, 2012. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (ROMANIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT) -
By Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Mail workers backed union opposition to plans to privatise the state-owned postal group on Wednesday, a stark reminder for potential investors that there will be no warm welcome if and when the company changes hands. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) sent consultative ballot papers to 112,000 Royal Mail... [Full Article]
STOCKHOLM (AP) - A WikiLeaks spokesman who claims to represent Edward Snowden has reached out to government officials in Iceland about the potential of the NSA leaker applying for asylum in the Nordic country, officials there said Wednesday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
OKUMA, Japan (AP) - Damaged vehicles, twisted metal and other debris remain strewn about Japan's crippled nuclear power plant. Scores of black and gray pipes and hoses cover the ground, part of the makeshift system to pump water into the damaged reactors to keep them from overheating. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Aditi Shrivastava and Pallavi Ail (Reuters) - At an age when many 90-year-olds are satisfied with playing gin rummy in a nursing home, Dole Food Co Inc Chief Executive David Murdock is planning his next big deal. The billionaire, who already owns 40 percent of one of the world's largest producers and marketers of fruit and fresh vegetables,... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's president landed in Qatar Sunday to discuss his country's stalled peace process and the possible opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state, officials said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Conor Humphries and Maurice Neill BELFAST (Reuters) - More than 1,000 trade unionists, environmentalists and anti-poverty campaigners confronted heavy security in Belfast on Saturday to voice their anger at G8 leaders who meet in Northern Ireland next week. Stilt-walkers, drummers and protesters in Halloween masks chanted slogans against everyth... [Full Article]
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