US court clears way for Chrysler-Fiat deal (AFP)
AFP - A US bankruptcy judge has approved a fast-track sale plan proposed by the Obama administration to shore up ailing automaker Chrysler, clearing the way for a possible partnership with Fiat.
AFP - A US bankruptcy judge has approved a fast-track sale plan proposed by the Obama administration to shore up ailing automaker Chrysler, clearing the way for a possible partnership with Fiat.
Stanford’s arrest caused near panic on the island of Antigua, where the billionaire was knighted and where his companies are the largest employer after the government
Having climbed steadily all day yesterday, the official total last night stood at more than 130 dead and more than 1,500 injured, but Berlusconi said he feared that total would rise
Visibly perplexed, Merkel eventually gave up on her Italian counterpart and led the other dignitaries on to a footbridge over the Rhine for a meeting with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy
I don’t think her reticence stems from any awkward legacy of infatuation with the City
He confirmed reports that another eight were missing in another small town
But yesterday Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin made a rather more modest declaration of his wealth - owning up to an income last year of a paltry £100,000, including his KGB pension
But nor does she convincingly endorse the claim, made by both men last year, that Britain is better placed to weather the recession than most other countries
Just as Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension, unimportant in itself, has come to represent the corruption of a financial system, so Timney’s movies stand for a political class that has lost empathy with the people it supposedly represents
“If I don’t get a good Gulf job then I can’t give a good education to my two sons, which is my first priority,” he said
Proceed down that line and you get to the kind of absurd position where Israel gets likened to the Nazis over Gaza
“What I want to do now is not focus on my views but on the views of the Turkish and Armenian people,” he said
Reforms are badly needed to arrest the court’s declining reputation and effectiveness, but it is not an institution which can or should be discarded
Acknowledging that the war had sown Muslim mistrust of the US, he said: “The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam
Pragmatic Zionist Kassow would probably label himself a pragmatic Zionist - a believer in Israel’s right to defend itself with force, yet an advocate of the two-state solution to the problem of Palestine - and that’s probably no more than you would expect from a man whose parents met in a displaced person’s (DP) camp outside Stuttgart
VDIK spokesman Thomas Boehm pointed out the â¬2,500 bonus amounts to a tenth of the average price of a new car