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Little progress was registered on trade issues during the two-day presidential Mercosur summit that

Mexico's lower house of Congress will make the final decision today on whether to call a special ses

A trio of ports in the northwestern Mediterranean says the European Union's railroad funding plans s

Unions and congressional Democrats are urging President Clinton to take issue with European Union Pr

Maersk Line and Sea-Land Service Inc. on Thursday chose New York-New Jersey, Baltimore and Halifax a

Just when it looked like Boeing Co. might end a nascent aircraft program, along came Trans World Air

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The tiny Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad's ambitious plan to join rail industry giants in servi

The religious group Jews for Jesus failed to persuade a federal appeals court to end a ban on litera

The Zurich Financial Services Group plans to open a training center for its 1,500 executives in a re

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Outside the Mong Kok metro stop in Kowloon, a young man calls out to visitors to advertise a store w

The Inter-American Development Bank approved a $155 million loan to Uruguay to help strengthen the c

Maryland officials have formed a public/private committee to examine transportation needs in the sta

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The European Union will today attempt to jump-start stalled negotiations that threaten to delay its

Differences over a sensitive security matter led Israel Thursday to block Lebanon's bid for observer

A 700,000-metric-ton sale of alumina by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) to Russia's Krasnoya

The Bank of England on Thursday cut a key interest rate half a point to 6.25 percent, following the

Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher has filed a lawsuit against Allstate Insurance, charging t

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The New Year will ring in the start of a joint marketing effort between Eurokai AG, Hamburg's No. 2

The Overseas Private Investment Corp. published a notice in Thursday's Federal Register of proposed

As part of any plan to reform the International Monetary Fund, the lending institution should farm o

The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

Germany's fast-growing postal system, Deutsche Post AG, intends to put its stamp on the internationa

Irish Life PLC, Ireland's largest life insurer, has agreed to acquire Irish Permanent PLC, the top m

India will cap both direct foreign and domestic equity in insurance joint ventures at 26 percent, ac

Aetna Inc. is buying the health-care business of Prudential Insurance Company of America for $1 bill

Latin America will suffer more than other regions from the current global economic slowdown, with gr

It took six years and a political dispute with China, but the next generation of container terminals

Greenbrier Cos. has won a new order for 1,000 double-stack intermodal railcars worth $50 million fro

The new Internet Web sites that international shipping lines will create next year to present their

Britain's train operators, including U.S.-owned English, Welsh & Scottish Railways, can expect to pa

Federal Maritime Commission officials have held off on sanctions aimed at Brazilian shipping, opting

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