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November 7, 2011
Election officials say president and former Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega is winning big in Nicaragua’s presidential election.
Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council says Ortega has nearly 64 […]
October 31, 2011
Humana says its third-quarter net income jumped 13 percent as revenue climbed 11 percent. The health insurer also raised its 2011 earnings forecast.
The Louisville, Ky., […]
October 30, 2011
Thailand’s prime minister is expressing optimism that Thailand’s worst flooding in a half-century will mostly spare Bangkok. Some neighborhood dikes have overflowed, but the city’s […]
October 26, 2011
Stocks pushed higher in afternoon trading Wednesday following reports that China will come to the aid of Europe by buying bonds.
Agence France-Presse reported that China […]
October 21, 2011
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s Cabinet on Friday approved a 12.1 trillion yen ($158 billion) extra budget to help fund the reconstruction of Japan’s tsunami-battered northeast.
The […]
October 17, 2011
Workers at some of Ford Motor Co.’s largest local unions have approved a new labor contract with the company, making it likely that the four-year […]
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October 12, 2011
Mercy Health plans to build a new hospital and other medical facilities in St. Charles County and a “virtual care center” in Chesterfield.
Mercy announced the […]
October 10, 2011
Hurricane Jova strengthened to a major, Category 3 hurricane Monday as it marched toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, threatening the idyllic beach resort of Barra de […]
October 9, 2011
Earlier this year, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission launched a consultation into the policy implications of increasingly popular Internet-based video services such as Netflix. […]