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President Barack Obama meets with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev at Winfield House in London, Wednesday, April 1, 2009.
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Obama says court ruling does not mean companies can't take race into account when hiring
Thu 2 Jul 2009
| President Barack Obama cast this week's Supreme Court decision in favor of white firefighters as a narrow case that nevertheless allows employers and educators to take race into account in hiring, p... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
Customers buy goods from hawkers. Tuesday, April 1, 2008.
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 Business Report 
Harassment of hawkers is no way to fight poverty
Thu 2 Jul 2009
| By Nontyatyambo Petros | In most of the developing world, city streets are routinely turned into sites of confrontation and intimidation as police try to clear away hawkers. Images of a recent showd... (photo: AP / AP Photo)
Starbucks Coffee - Coffee Shop  The New York Times  Wed 1 Jul 2009
A Small Player Breaks Into Starbucks
| Daniel Lubetzky, a social entrepreneur who has started several food ventures, always hoped to sell his company's KIND Fruit + Nut Bars in Starbucks Coffee stores - a chain whose values and consumers... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Business   Food   Market   Photos   Starbucks  
Ras al khaimah  Gulf News  Mon 29 Jun 2009
Rakia Rera to oversee implementation of emirate's escrow account law

| Ras Al Khaimah: Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA), the government body responsible for the socioeconomic growth of the emirate, has revealed that the recent establishment of RAKIA Real Est... (photo: Public Domain / Shahin Olakara)
Economy   Finance   Government   Investment   Photos  
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Mining-trucks gold mine -Ghana Modern Ghana Sun 28 Jun 2009
Ghana's Current Account Gap to Reach 14.1% of GDP

Ghana's current account deficit is forecast to reach 14.1 percent of gross domestic product this year, and widen to 20.4 percent in 2010, the African Development Bank sai... (photo: Creative Commons / isurusen)
Company   Domestic   Forecast   Ghana   Photos  
Police officers guard Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa, center, right, as he enters the court for his trial in Cairo, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. Gulf News Sun 28 Jun 2009
Egyptian tycoon on death row hires new lawyer

| Cairo: Egyptian business mogul Hesham Mustafa, sentenced to death for ordering the murder of Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim in Dubai last year, has hired a new defence law... (photo: AP / Hamr Gamal)
Cairo   Death   Lawyer   Photos   Tycoon  
** FILE ** In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photo, bank repo, foreclosure and for sale signs sit outside a foreclosed home in Houston. Review Journal Sat 27 Jun 2009
Lawyers warn about new foreclosure law

| By ED VOGEL | CARSON CITY -- Southern Nevada lawyers warned the state Supreme Court on Friday that a soon-to-begin program to reduce foreclosures could fail because loa... (photo: AP / David J. Phillip, File)
Economy   Foreclosure   Lawyers   Mortgages   Photos  
Small Business - Entrepreneur The New York Times Thu 25 Jun 2009
Lending Talent, and Money, on a Micro Scale
| Government agencies and international aid groups have long supported programs that train the world's poor in how to start and run their own businesses. The training is ... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Aid   Business   Money   Photos   Poverty  
The company sign and logo hangs over a row of unsold 2007 Aspens at a Chrysler-Jeep agency in the east Denver suburb of Aurora, Colo., on Sunday, May 13, 2007. First-quarter earnings at DaimlerChrysler AG more than doubled as strength in its Mercedes Car Group overcame deeper losses at the U.S.-based Chrysler unit, which the company has agreed to sell to a private equity firm The Miami Herald Thu 25 Jun 2009
Miami lawyer in middle of Chrysler bankruptcy case

| Miami bankruptcy lawyer Thomas E. Lauria may not be readily recognizable outside of narrow legal circles, but his name hit business headlines earlier this month when he... (photo: AP / David Zalubowski)
Chrysler   Company   Development   Miami   Photos  


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