The University of Michigan’s final index of US consumer confidence rises, but less than expected. Orders for durable goods and sales of existing houses fell more than expected. Bad…
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GERUSALEMME From the festive toasts of the wedding to the terror of the rubble. A five-story building in which there was a salon for marriages that housed 650 people collapsed…
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ROME – Officially it was a garage used by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in the popular neighborhood of Trastevere in Rome. In reality it was a center for drug…
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MILAN – Account in red and a mountain of debts for the Impregilo, the construction company controlled by the Gemina of Cesare Romiti. The group closed 2000 with a net…
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PARIS – An old Parisian building in the most lively section of the rue Saint-Dominic. In one of the richest districts of Paris, that condominium seems an ostentatious symbol of…
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Yesterday’s Wall Street rebound also hit the Asian markets. The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed the session with a leap forward of almost 1 percent. Which partially offsets yesterday’s decline of…
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VIENNA – For the Austrians the Vienna Philharmonic is not “just” an orchestra. it is the sense of a historical investiture and an object of worship. it is the incarnation…
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Milan’s stock exchange closed at 1.62 percent, back from a hit at the 14-month low. A crash for the New Market dropped to 4.38 percent. Weaker but less disastrous are…
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The embargo blocks a humanitarian flight ROME – The first Italian humanitarian flight to Baghdad after the bombing on Friday 16 February was canceled at the last minute. It had to…
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SAN FRANCISCO – “The New Economy? The crisis of these months has only one meaning: it is the end of the beginning”. Henry Blodget’s definition of Merrill Lynch is the…
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