Family News Home Archive for February, 2008

By Cynthia Osterman
SEATTLE (Reuters) - As the U.S. mortgage crisis forces more properties into foreclosure, even renters are feeling the pain.
When a landlord cannot pay the mortgage, tenants can face eviction, financial loss and pressure tactics from new owners who want them to move out. And some are ending up homeless.
Teacher [...]

By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Senior Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah, on the United States’ most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, has been killed by a bomb attack in Damascus, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday.
Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, accused Israel [...]

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By Marcel Michelson
PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Peugeot Citroen (PEUP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) reported
a big rise in 2007 profit on Wednesday and boosted its still
thin profit margin in line with its [...]

By Nellie Andreeva and Ray Richmond
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After picketing outside the major studios for the past three months, TV writers went back inside Wednesday, trying to pick up where they’d left off before the strike.
“It is so weird to see food in the kitchen and writers in the [...]

By Rebecca Harrison
TEL HASHOMER, Israel (Reuters) - Child victims of the same war, the two young boys lie just meters apart in hospital, bruised, bandaged and fighting for their lives.
One is Israeli, the other Palestinian. They were wounded on opposite sides of a conflict fought out daily between the Jewish state [...]

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By Marcel Michelson
PARIS, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Peugeot Citroen (PEUP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) reported
a big rise in 2007 profit on Wednesday and boosted its still
thin profit margin in line with its [...]

By David Dolan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese consumer lender Aiful Corp
(8515.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said it would raise $1.1 billion to shore up its
business by issuing new shares and convertible bonds, as new
interest rate limits batter earnings in the sector.
Aiful and other moneylenders have lowered their interest
rates as they [...]

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By Kenneth Li and Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The New York Times Co (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
said on Tuesday it nominated two new candidates for its board
ahead of an attempt by a dissident investor group to add four
directors to its slate.
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By Amanda Beck
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - They were playing in a movie, but marchers who gathered in San Francisco last week to recreate a 1970s gay rights protest were not just acting.
Hundreds of people came to the Castro district, long favored by homosexual residents, to be extras in a movie that [...]

By Luke Baker and Jeremy Lovell
LONDON (Reuters) - Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, who feared assassination and faced accusations of plotting a coup in his homeland, has died in Britain and British police are treating his death as suspicious.
Police said checks had found no radioactive traces on Patarkatsishvili’s body or at his [...]