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- Peru transfers jailed NYer Berenson for treatment
LIMA, Peru -- Peruvian authorities have moved jailed New Yorker Lori Berenson to a capital prison to treat a chronic back ailment that could complicate her five-month-old pregnancy. Prison spokeswoman Janet Sanchez says prison facilities and doctors in
- Romania: Dacia to halve output in 2009
Automobile Dacia, owned by French car manufacturer Renault, decided to halve its production to 200.000 units this year, from 400.000 units initially planned, due to a sharp fall in sales in the past few months on foreign markets and exports, the company
- Romania: Skoda drags Porsche Rom sales down 8% in '08
Rorsche Romania sales fell 8% in 2008, to 54.000 units versus 58.790 units sold in 2007, mainly due to lower demand for the Skoda brand, the company said. ''The Skoda brand was hit hardest, because it targets mainly private clients, individuals, who
- Romania: GM sales down 18.5% in '08
General Motors Southeast Europe, the general importer of the Chevrolet and Opel brands in the Romanian market, posted a 18.5% decrease in sales in 2008, to 26.700 units, the company said. The company delivered 17.221 Opel cars last year, compared to
- Peru transfers jailed American for treatment
Peruvian authorities have moved jailed New Yorker Lori Berenson to a capital prison to treat a chronic back ailment that could complicate her five-month-old pregnancy. Prison spokeswoman Janet Sanchez says prison facilities and doctors in Lima are better
- Mexican woman wins 22,000 dollars for useless red tape
A Mexican woman who needs to collect seven signatures every two weeks to obtain medicine for her sick son won a government competition Thursday for the most useless bureaucratic procedure. Cecilia Velazquez received a check for 300,000 pesos (22,000
- Stratic Energy ends operations on Well 16/2b-5A in UK North Sea
CALGARY - Stratic Energy Corp. (TSXV:SE), a Calgary-based international oil comany, says that following a series of operational difficulties, Stratic and its joint venture partner have stopped operations on one of its wells in the British North Sea. The
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