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• Russia bans poultry imports from 19 U.S. suppliers
MOSCOW - Russia, the biggest market for U.S. poultry exporters, will ban imports from 19 producers in the United States and warned on Friday that another 29 suppliers face a possible ban on health and safety grounds. The ban will take effect from ...
• A perfectly safe car — just not in the U.S.
DEARBORN, Mich. - It seems like an easy solution: Americans are looking for more fuel-efficient vehicles, so Ford Motor Co. is bringing over some of the small, gas-sipping cars it's been selling to Europeans for years. But introducing the cars to the ...
• It’s back-to-school time for bedbugs
Laptops, textbooks and new jeans are among the must-haves for college students heading back to campus, but the most common back-to-school item may well be the blood-sucking bedbug. Colleges around the U.S. are reporting a scourge of the little ...
• Dell’s quarterly profit drops 17 percent
Slashing computer prices helped Dell Inc. boost sales in its fiscal second quarter, but the No. 2 PC maker’s bottom line took a hit when efforts to cut costs failed to make up the difference. Investors punished the stock Thursday on word that Dell ...
• Sony to launch world's thinnest LCD TVs
TOKYO - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would launch the world's thinnest liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs this year, broadening its product line-up ahead of the critical year-end shopping season. The new 40-inch model, which is 9.9 mm thick, is ...