archive 19·06·2009

corporate

• Air France to cut more jobs

  Europe’s biggest airline,Air France-KLM, may need to cut a further 3,000 jobs its chief executive… 19/06/09 20:24 CET

• Total fires UK builders

  The French energy group Total has fired around 900 construction workers who were building a new… 19/06/09 20:24 CET

• Porsche sales slowdown

  Porsche’s latest figures show a decline in earnings for the last nine months. Turnover was… 19/06/09 20:24 CET

economy

• IMF more hopeful on economic growth

  The International Monetary Fund is likely to revise upwards its 2010 growth forecast for the world… 19/06/09 20:24 CET

• Worsening Italian jobs figures

  Recession hit Italy’s jobless rate rose in the first quarter to its highest level for three years… 19/06/09 20:24 CET

europa

• EU summit finds agreement on Ireland and Barroso

  Two of the men who emerged with the most to smile about from the summit of the 27 EU leaders in… 19/06/09 20:01 CET

• Barroso now faces European Parliament approval

  There was little hiding Jose Manuel Barroso’s emotion after the EU leaders spoke with one voice to… 19/06/09 20:01 CET

• Farmers protest at EU summit

  For a second day running, Europe’s dairy farmers have been protesting outside the European Union… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

interview

• Abou El Hassan Bani Sadr: “If the movemnt continues the way it does the repressive forces will not shoot into the crowd.”

  Former Iranian President Abou El Hassan Bani Sadr took part in the anti-Shah student movement… 19/06/09 20:53 CET

le mag

• Graciela Iturbide and Julio Pomar retrospectives

  Mexican phtographer Graciela Iturbide is showing a major retrospective of her work, entitled… 19/06/09 17:22 CET

markets

• Friday 18th June

  European shares finished the day up one percent trimming the losses over the week. And the… 19/06/09 20:24 CET

parlamento

• New faces, big changes?

  Their seats secure, 736 members are getting ready to start a new legislative period in the European… 19/06/09 18:12 CET

world news

• Iran’s Supreme leader: The ultimate authority

  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the highest authority in Iran. As Supreme Leader he has the final say on… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• No bloodbath says Bani Sadr

  The first man to hold the post of President following Iran’s Islamic Revolution says he does not… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• West voices concern over Khamenei speech

  While Ayatollah Khamanei’s address pleased conservatives in Iran it heightened concern among… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• Further Iran protests could provoke crackdown

  The opposition in Iran had said they would not return to the streets during the morning prayers… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• Ayatollah’s warning raises stakes in Iran

  Iran’s top religious leader has issued what amounts to a warning to opposition leaders to end their… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• World hunger levels pass a billion

  A record number of people are going without food, according to a new report. More than a… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• Spanish philanthropist mourned

  Tributes are being paid to a Catalan philanthopist, known as Spain’s Mother Teresa, who has died at… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• ETA blamed for killing senior policeman

  A top anti-terrorist police officer has been killed in Spain’s Basque Country in what is believed… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• A birthday protest with world support in Manila

  It is a birthday cake that will not be cut with joy. This is an annual ritual for the… 19/06/09 19:55 CET

• Iran tense amid pause in protests

  It is not clear yet what impact the Ayatollah’s call for an end to the protests will have… 19/06/09 13:09 CET

• Ayatollah calls for calm

  Iran’s top religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, has appealed for opposition supporters to end… 19/06/09 12:54 CET

• Allende’s widow dies at 94

  Hortensia Bussi, the widow of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, has died at the age of 94… 19/06/09 12:50 CET

• ETA blamed for deadly car bomb

  ETA has been blamed for a car bombing that’s left a police inspector dead. A cloud of black… 19/06/09 11:54 CET

• Church and state argue abortion in Spain

  Spain is facing an increasingly-emotional debate, with church and state at odds over abortion… 19/06/09 08:17 CET

• EU leaders back Barroso for a new term

  The outgoing President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has been unanimously… 19/06/09 08:17 CET

• Iran Supreme Leader to address nation

  As mass protests by supporters of reformist Presidential candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi continue… 19/06/09 08:17 CET

• Latvia protests budget cuts

  Thousands of Latvians have been protesting at sweeping budgets cuts aimed at securing more loans to… 19/06/09 08:17 CET

• Reaching for The Moon

  Almost forty years since an American first walked on the Moon, NASA has launched two spacecraft on… 19/06/09 08:17 CET

• EU leaders back Barroso for new term

  The outgoing President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso has been unanimously… 19/06/09 02:51 CET

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