- Swift Action Could Stem Tide Of Lawsuits From Costa Concordia Shipwreck
Two lawsuits arising out of the Costa Concordia shipwreck were filed last week. Many more are likely to be on the way. They may include claims for everything from death and physical injury to lost property, pain and suffering, lost earnings and economic distress. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- U.S. Navy rescues 13 Iranians taken hostage by Somali pirates
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Navy said on Friday that it has rescued 13 Iranian hostages held by Somali pirates in Arabian Sea, days after tension escalated as Iran warned against the return to the Gulf by a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group.
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- The EU must give Gazan hope a hand | Sami Abdel-Shafi
Without pressure on Israel, aid from the EU will only succeed in sustaining dark days for Palestinians in GazaIt is no longer fitting to wonder whether Gaza is a problem: of course it is, and will continue to be for as long as its residents are forced to survive on aid for lack of economic opportunity and are denied the simple freedoms to pursue a decent and peaceful life. Whenever violence breaks out in or around the Gaza Strip, whether Gazans are responsible or not, we end up bearing the brunt.Shortly after the triple attack in southern Israel last Thursday, Israeli warplanes began a three-day retaliation campaign of bombing around Gaza. Earlier that day I was getting ready to leave Gaza to travel abroad on an exceptional permit.On the way out of my apartment, without much second thought, I opened each of the windows a notch and lowered all shutters about halfway down. This has become standard procedure to help minimise damage from the severe vacuum any bombing creates. As I locked up my home I felt distress at how dark and cynical my outlook had become after so many years living there.In retrospect, what I did was a simple response to what has become imprinted in the minds of Gazans; we may never be at peace and must conduct our lives accordingly. Those of us who strongly disagree with firing of rockets into Israel and with targeting civilians feel violated on a daily basis. Most of Gaza's 1.8 million residents still cannot move in or out of the area freely and continue to subsist on handouts from generous donors.Meanwhile, the Israeli government flatly rejects any advance in peace negotiations and the US and EU acquiesce. As for Fatah and Hamas, they are reconciled on paper yet still divided in practice. In particular they have lost Israel's respect as adversar _NULL_
- PM quizzes Pawar on onion prices
With high onion prices bringing people across India to tears, PM Manmohan Singh on Friday queried agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on the reasons for the spike, while announcing relief for distressed farmers in Maharashtra. マハラシュトラ州で遭難農民の救済を発表しながら、高いタマネギ価格は涙、インドの人々をもたらすと、金曜日の午後マンモハンシンは、スパイクの理由に農業大臣シャラPawar照会
- Distressed Debt Investors Prefer Real Estate In 2011
With risk-taking coming back to most markets, investors in the riskiest asset classes are being forced to channel their funds into different sectors and instruments in their attempts to get the most bang for their buck. リスクはバックほとんどの市場に来て撮影すると、最もリスクの高い資産クラスの投資家は、その支出に見合う最高の価値を得るために彼らの努力の異なる部門や楽器に資金をチャンネルを余儀なくされている
- Light aircraft crashes into the English Channel
Woman saved but husband is still missing as rescuers search for wreckage of two-seater private planeA major search operation was launched on Saturday when a light aircraft carrying two people crashed into the Channel near Guernsey.A Royal Navy patrol boat, fishing vessels and rescue helicopters were deployed after the single-engine private plane ditched 25 miles north-west of the Channel island. A woman was airlifted to hospital in the French port of Cherbourg after she was found on a life raft by a Russian merchant ship responding to a distress signal. The search was continuing for the second person, who is believed to be her husband.The plane had been travelling from Lee on Solent, near Portsmouth, to Alderney when it came down shortly before 3.50pm. HMS Tyne, a Royal Navy patrol vessel with night vision capabilities, was diverted to join French coastguard search and rescue efforts, the Ministry of Defence said. Lifeboats from Guernsey, Alderney and Normandy were also involved.Plane crashesBarry Neildguardian.co.uk © 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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- Ghastly Eurozone PMIs: Even France And Germany In Recession
While economic data in the U.S. continues to marginally improve, flash-PMI readings for the Eurozone came in at their weakest level in more than two years on Thursday. The data is consistent with an economic contraction across the board, which includes France and Germany, and is a presage of further fragility to come, given falls in new orders, low levels of business confidence, and signs of distress in the periphery. null, responseDetails: Suspected Terms of Service Abuse. Please see responseStatus: 40
- Russia, South Korea to hold joint naval drills
Two South Korean warships will visit Russia's Far Eastern port of Vladivostok next week to participate in joint military exercises, according to Russia's Federal Border Service Wednesday.
A regional border office spokesperson told Interfax news agency Wednesday the drills would be conducted in Peter the Great Bay and involve searching for a vessel in distress, practising skills to free a hijacked vessel and rescuing crew from sinking vessels.
Four Russian warships, an An-26 aircraft and a ... 二つの韓国の軍艦はロシア連邦国境サービス水曜日によると、合同軍事演習に参加するため来週ウラジオストクのロシア極東の港を訪問する
- Lone Star to Take Stake in Tokyo Star
U.S. distressed-debt specialist Lone Star is in talks with other lenders to take control of Japan's Tokyo Star Bank for the second time. 米国の不良債権専門ローンスターが二度目の日本の東京スター銀行の制御を奪って、他の金融業者と交渉を進めている
- Profile: Wilbur Ross, crazy vulture or company saviour?
Wilbur Ross, investor in Virgin Money, has a reputation for surprising people – even trade unionsHanging proudly in the Manhattan office of Wilbur Ross is a framed magazine cover asking whether he is crazy. It is a thought that has come up more than once in the 72-year-old's long career on Wall Street. The billionaire investor specialises in buying stakes in distressed industries: everything from coal and textiles through to the bombed-out US mortgage market.To his critics, he is the archetypal vulture investor – preying on the misfortune of others. To his supporters, of whom there are a surprising number even in the US union movement, he is a brave turnaround expert who can breath new life into companies others have given up on.In 2004 he rolled up the battered remnants of the US steel industry and sold it to Lakshmi Mittal for $4.5bn (£3bn). More recently, he has been attempting a similar transformation with the car parts industry to less universal success. In 2008, British car parts group Wagon went into administration despite rescue financing from Ross. He has had his eye on the banking industry almost ever since the sub-prime debacle, making a number of forays into US mortgages.Whether he manages the same trick with Britain's banking industry depends more on Virgin and Richard Branson than it does on Ross who, unusually, appears to have taken a back seat, but his presence certainly gives Virgin the firepower it may need to take on larger rivals such as Santander.Ross is not a complete stranger to British business. Though still a relatively unknown in London, he cut his teeth in New York as a restructuring adviser for British bank Rothschild during the 1980s at a time when US investment bank rivals were largely barred from the industry. He bought out the Rothschild ウィルバーロス氏は、ヴァージンマネーの投資、フレーム雑誌かどうかを彼はクレイジーだと思うかカバーです意外な人々のための評判を - にも誇らしげにウィルバーロスのマンハッタンのオフィスでunionsHanging取引しています
- A May Day distress call | Brendan Barber
Uncertainty – about our job, pension and kids' future – is now the fate of all workers, and some are making a killing out of our fearsAround the world uncertainty is becoming the single unifying characteristic of working life. And for anyone who's not independently wealthy, uncertainty about work means uncertainty about everything.It's been over a generation since we were told about the end of the job for life. Now people are uncertain about whether they'll have a job at all, whether they'll get a pension at the end of their working lives, and whether their kids will grow up – as every parent wants – to be healthier, wealthier and wiser than them.Far too many people across the globe – from rich countries like the UK to developing ones in sub-Saharan Africa – are making money out of the uncertainty working people are forced to endure.Take, for example, those running our financial institutions. Many of them are once again picking up their seven-figure bonuses while the global dole queue they helped to cause hits 35 million. If it wasn't for the taxes of you and me, their banks would have gone bust months ago. It cannot be right that hedge funds are making huge profits from speculation over Greece's future while ordinary workers face having their pay, jobs, pensions and public services slashed.Uncertainty at work goes further than pay cuts and job insecurity. Consider the outright criminals who pay below the minimum wage in Britain, no wage at all in parts of India, employ children who should be at school, or hire death squads to terrorise the trade unionists standing up for their workmates in places like Guatemala or Colombia.Uncertainty is the main challenge facing people working in the global economy.People don't know when they're suddenly going to discover their employ 不確実性 - 私たちの仕事、年金については子供の将来 - 今、すべての労働者の運命は、いくつかのが私たちのfearsAround世界の不確かさの殺害は、労働生活の1つの統合の特徴になりつつあるが作っている
- From the West Bank | Theatre review
Tron, GlasgowAfter blanket coverage of the intricacies of the British political system, how refreshing to be reminded of the wider world. And how invigorating, in this opening salvo of Mayfesto, a two-week programme of politically inspired drama, to see it done so consummately.In three short and substantial plays, actor-directors Cora Bissett and Ewan Donald – joined on stage by an equally authoritative Benny Young – take us to a Palestine where righteous anger vies with philosophical resignation as the only workable response to an unjust occupation. Performed with grace and clarity, these vignettes capture the rage, bewilderment and hope-against-hope that is born out of oppression.It opens with An Imagined Sarha, a new adaptation by David Greig of a memoir by Raja Shehadeh, whose When the Bulbul Stopped Singing he adapted for Edinburgh's Traverse in 2004. As in that play, Shehadeh comes across as the wise and urbane Palestinian, this time bridging a seemingly impossible cultural divide as he joins a hashish-smoking Israeli settler in the Ramallah hills and, transcending prejudice, discovers a common humanity.In contrast to Shehadeh's guru-like patience, the Bedouin refugee in Franca Rame's An Arab Woman Speaks is a fiery activist with no tolerance for injustice. Superbly played by Bissett, she tells a distressing and inspirational true story that makes the link between the oppression of women and the subjugation of a people.It is a story that ranges from domestic violence to political assassination, a narrative arc that is hard for the outsider to contemplate. It is this sense of disconnection that Greig captures in the third play, Ramallah, a wry sketch in which a playwright finds himself incapable of communicatin トロン、英国の政治システムの複雑さのGlasgowAfter毛布カバー、どのようにさわやかな、より広い世界のことを思い出したする
- Give me a plumber any day, academic says of bankers
We were distressed recently to come across some unkind comments directed at bankers by one of Australia's leading economists, Professor Steve Keen of the University of Western Sydney.
我々は最近、一部の不親切なコメント銀行での監督の間ではオーストラリア有数の経済学者が来て苦労していた教授のスティーブキーン西シドニー大学の
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