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Seattle Times, 23.04.13 21:00 UTC

Correction: Michelin sales story

In a story April 22 about Michelin, The Associated Press misstated the dollar equivalent of Michelin's first quarter sales. It was $6.36 billion, not $3.36 billion.

North America  Europe  USD  weak car markets  Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin S.C.A.  The Associated Press GmbH 

Reuters - Top News, 23.04.13 14:29 UTC

Analysis: Alienation draws some vulnerable immigrants to jihad

By Myra MacDonald LONDON | Tue Apr 23, 2013 10:15am EDT LONDON (Reuters) - In the United States, two Chechen immigrants are accused of the Boston Marathon bombings. In Canada, a doctoral student at a ...

Wall Street Journal  The Wall Street Journal Online  THOMSON REUTERS GROUP LIMITED  Raffaello Pantucci  Myra MacDonald  Pakistan  +26 more

Reuters - Business News, 23.04.13 11:44 UTC

DuPont profit beats estimates on demand for agriculture chemicals, seeds

Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:29am EDT (Reuters) - Chemicals maker DuPont's (DD.N) quarterly profit beat analysts' estimates as higher sales of its seeds and agriculture chemicals offset weak demand for the ...

performance chemicals  once-lucrative titanium dioxide paint pigment  North America  USD  E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company  chief executive   +5 more

Seattle Times, 23.04.13 02:29 UTC

Alaska gambles with major oil-tax cut

Alaska plans to give up billions of dollars in tax revenue it has been drawing from oil producers to spur new drilling at a time when energy production is surging across the Lower 48 states.

Alaska  Pennsylvania  energy  oil prices  Texas  oil  +40 more

Telegraph, 22.04.13 22:51 UTC

Canadian police foil al Qaeda-backed plot to derail train

Canadian police have foiled an al Qaeda-backed plot to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area in a "a major terrorist attack", officials said last night.

Chiheb Esseghaier  There  United Arab Emirates  United States  Canada  Iran  +11 more

Reuters - Business News, 22.04.13 15:20 UTC

International Paper in talks to spin off distribution business

Mon Apr 22, 2013 11:00am EDT (Reuters) - International Paper Co (IP.N) is in talks with Bain Capital-backed Unisource Worldwide Inc to spin off and merge its distribution business with the privately ...

ALLA RAY MORRIS TRUST  UNISOURCE WORLDWIDE, INC.  BAIN CAPITAL, INC.  XPEDX  International Paper Company  North America  +4 more

Daily Mail, 22.04.13 03:25 UTC

Drinking out of a can will never be the same again... introducing the new 360 degree lid!

PUBLISHED: 19:53 GMT, 21 April 2013 | UPDATED: 20:09 GMT, 21 April 2013 Whether or not you believe in the old adage 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', one company is trying to change the way we ...

North America  Crown Holdings, Inc.  Sly Fox Brewing Company 

Seattle Times, 20.04.13 02:20 UTC

Outlet mall on Tulalip Reservation expands

Seattle Premium Outlets, located off Interstate 5 on the Tulalip Tribes Reservation, is opening more than a dozen new stores to attract a growing number of bargain hunters.

Current tenants Coach  marketing manager   Indianapolis  Marysville  Tommy Bahama  Evonne Noble  +12 more

Seattle Times, 19.04.13 18:01 UTC

Toyota to build Lexus in Kentucky, add 750 jobs

Toyota will start building the Lexus ES 350 at a factory in Georgetown, Ky., starting in 2015, producing a luxury brand vehicle for the first time in the United States.

Japan  Governor  President   Canada  executive   North America  +20 more

Daily Mail, 19.04.13 03:13 UTC

The drug zealot I exposed a decade ago and how the BBC's promoting his plan for heroin 'shooting galleries'

PUBLISHED: 22:22 GMT, 18 April 2013 | UPDATED: 00:10 GMT, 19 April 2013 Yesterday's BBC Radio 4 Today programme informed us that Brighton's local public health agency may introduce what is ...

Netherlands  Canada  North America  Glasgow University  Glasgow University  Centre for Policy Studies  +18 more
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North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast. North America covers an area of about 24...
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