MILAN (AP) — UniCredit, the top Italian bank that has been struggling to improve its financial strength, said Wednesday that its second-quarter profits beat expectations, jumping 75 percent thanks to the sale of investments and cost cuts.
MILAN (AP) — UniCredit, the top Italian bank that has been struggling to improve its financial strength, said Wednesday that its second-quarter profits beat expectations, jumping 75 percent thanks to the sale of investments and cost cuts.
MILAN (AP) — UniCredit, the top Italian bank that has been struggling to improve its financial strength, said Wednesday that its second-quarter profits beat expectations, jumping 75 percent thanks to the sale of investments and cost cuts. "The results of the test did not come as a surprise to us," UniCredit's new CEO, Jean Pierre Mustier, told investors. Since being named in June to improve profitability and the bank's capital structure, Mustier has sold interests in Polish bank Pekao and Fineco internet banking subsidiaries... Читать дальше...
The Air Force just announced the F-35A has reached Initial Operational Capability, meaning it could be deployed to combat zones if needed.
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Victoria looks to have its first Uber rank with Avalon Airport setting aside a designated zone for the ride-sharing service.
Mexican economic growth faces headwinds from global market volatility, government spending cuts and higher local interest rates, although the country is well equipped to handle shocks, Moody’s Investors Service said.
ISTANBUL — Barely a day after the Pentagon's top official arrived in Turkey in a bid to cool growing tensions between Ankara and Washington, a Turkish lawyer filed a criminal complaint against him and two other senior U.S. officials. It accused Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, and National Intelligence Director James Clapper of conspiring with the plotters behind the failed July 15 coup attempt, which ended only after... Читать дальше...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Ahmed Zewail, a science adviser to President Obama who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions over immensely short time scales, died on Tuesday. He was 70.
Notebook: Bookies complain over ban on ‘cruel’ dog-racing as well as new state levy
HAARLEM (ANP) - De aangekondigde actie van grondpersoneel bij KLM moet van de kortgedingrechter in Haarlem worden afgeblazen. Vakbond FNV wordt voorlopig verboden om een staking op touw te zetten, in ieder geval tot de rechter volgende week donderdag met een vonnis komt.
LOS ANGELES — The brother of JonBenet Ramsey will publicly discuss his younger sister’s death for the first time in an interview to be broadcast on “Dr. Phil” next month. Burke Ramsey was 9 years old when his 6-year-old sister was found dead in the basement of the family’s Boulder, Colorado, home on Dec. 26,
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State has named a new leader of Boko Haram, the Nigerian militant group which last year swore allegiance to it.
Abu Musab al-Barnawi was named Islamic State's governor for West Africa in a two-page interview in its weekly magazine, al-Naba, which was circulated late on Tuesday.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, a former military ruler who took office last year, has made it a priority to defeat Boko Haram, which has tried to... Читать дальше...
BERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for an elderly woman who filled in spaces on an art work depicting part of a crossword at a German museum says she contends that she was completing the piece, not damaging it.
BERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for an elderly woman who filled in spaces on an art work depicting part of a crossword at a German museum says she contends that she was completing the piece, not damaging it.
BERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for an elderly woman who filled in spaces on an art work depicting part of a crossword at a German museum says she contends that she was completing the piece, not damaging it.
Officials at Nuremberg's Neues Museum filed a criminal complaint after the 90-year-old, who hasn't been identified, last month filled in blank spaces with a ballpoint pen on avant-garde artist Arthur Koepcke's 1965 work, "Reading-work-piece." Lawyer Heinz-Harro Salloch said Wednesday that the woman argued she hadn't damaged the piece "but only completed it as the artist intended," news agency dpa reported.
BERLIN (AP) — A lawyer for an elderly woman who filled in spaces on an art work depicting part of a crossword at a German museum says she contends that she was completing the piece, not damaging it.
Nature still knows us best.
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A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan's territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by ...
The spot is part of an effort by the Democratic nominee and her allies to frame stopping Trump — and backing her candidacy — as a national cause for Americans of all political persuasions. The 30-second spot shows clips of 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, former CIA Director Michael Hayden and others questioning Trump's temperament and foreign policy experience. For all Americans together! Clinton said in her convention address. [...] a number of Republicans have broken ranks.
Can Real Salt Lake pump the breaks on Sebastian Giovinco's MVP-worthy season for Toronto FC?