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• Jews in Europe targeted as Gaza anger grows
PARIS - Signs are mounting that the conflict in Gaza is starting to spill over into violence in Europe's towns and cities, with assaults against Jews and arson attacks on Jewish congregations in France, Sweden and Britain. Assailants rammed a burning ...
• Bush critic Krugman wins economics Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for his work on international trade patterns. The Princeton ...
• Stocks Finish Lower in Thin Trading
In addition, Germany and Sweden have signaled that they may make loans to GM units in those countries, which would further diminish the value to unsecured creditors of the equity in foreign subsidiaries, said S&P Ratings. Among other companies in the ...
• Harold Pinter: A master of the sound of silence
In 2005, when Pinter won the Nobel Prize, he was too frail to travel to Sweden to accept the award. But in a recorded lecture presented at the Swedish Academy, he said: “The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism ...
• Nobel official defends disputed China trips
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The head of the Nobel Foundation on Tuesday rejected criticism against all-expenses-paid trips that prize jurors made to China and said it was "normal" for them to accept such invitations. Michael Sohlman, executive director of the ...