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American, BA warned by EU over proposed tie-up

American Airlines and fellow Oneworld alliance partners British Airways and Iberia face fresh European Union antitrust hurdles as they look to extend their pact to include coordinated schedules and prices.

EU warns American, BA over tie-up plans

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American Airlines (AMR.N) and fellow Oneworld alliance partners British Airways (BAY.L) and Iberia (IBLA.MC) face fresh European Union antitrust hurdles as they look to extend their pact to include coordinated schedules and prices.

EU watchdog charges Oneworld airline pact

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A pact to cooperate on schedules and prices between British Airways , American Airlines and Iberia may have violated EU antitrust rules, European Union antitrust regulators said on Friday.
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GM to close Saturn as sale to Penske collapses

General Motors Co will close Saturn and wind down its dealership network after a deal to sell the faltering brand to Penske Automotive Group collapsed, the automaker said on Wednesday.
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Visteon to give up some GM parts business

Visteon Corp has sought U.S. Bankruptcy Court permission to drop contracts to supply auto interiors, fuel tanks, climate controls and lighting components to General Motors Co under a deal with the automaker that would give it more than $22 million.
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Mexico's Axtel surges on move toward TV

The stock of Mexican telecommunications provider Axtel rose for a third straight session on Thursday on news that it plans to offer satellite television, creating tougher competition for media giant Televisa.
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Steps by developing nations to fight climate change

Major developing nations have announced steps over the past year to curb their growing greenhouse emissions as the world tries to negotiate a broader, and tougher, U.N. pact to slow the pace of climate change.
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Credit Crunch Constrains International Buyers

Interest in U.S. real estate by international buyers declined due to the worldwide recession and severe credit crunch, according to the 2009 National Association of Realtors Profile of International Home Buying Activity.
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US Gulf refiners say ops normal, watch storm threat

U.S. refiners said operations were normal at refineries in Texas and Louisiana on Friday morning as they monitored a storm system in the western Gulf of Mexico that has a low chance of becoming a tropical cyclone.
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Mexico hijacker is singing, gunslinging evangelical

A man who hijacked a Mexican plane is a singing evangelical minister, marksman and martial arts whiz who friends nicknamed Crazy as he turned to religion to escape a life of drug addiction and petty thieving.
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Religious fanatic briefly hijacks Mexican plane

A Bolivian-born man clutching a Bible and claiming a divine mission hijacked a plane in Mexico with more than 100 people aboard on Wednesday, but the incident ended quickly and without bloodshed.
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Mexican hijack ends peacefully, all aboard safe

Hijackers seized an AeroMexico passenger plane in Mexico with more than 100 people on board on Wednesday but the incident ended quickly. without bloodshed, and nine suspects were detained.
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Aeromexico's plane hijack ends

The hijack to Mexico's Aeromexico flight 576 from Cancun to Mexico City ended after police captured at least six suspects and regained control of the airplane, Mexican media reported Wednesday.
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Mexico plans more taxes, cuts in bureaucracy

Mexican President Felipe Calderon asked Congress on Tuesday to raise taxes and slash spending on government bureaucracy to prop up public finances as the country languishes in a deep recession.
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9 Excellent Stops Along the Pan American Highway

After our fourth child was born, my husband and I got this crazy notion to move to Costa Rica. We had talked about living abroad sometime in our life, and though my husband had lived in Peru for two years before we were married,
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BP makes giant oil find in Gulf of Mexico

Oil major BP Plc said it has made an oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, which analysts believe could contain over 1 billion barrels of recoverable reserves, reaffirming the Gulf's strategic importance to the industry.
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U.S. anti-drug aid to Mexico reaches $214 million

The United States has written checks for $214 million of the $1.4 billion promised to Mexico in 2007 to help fight the country's powerful drug cartels, Washington's top anti-drug diplomat said on Tuesday.
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Hurricane Jimena latest update, path, forecast (Sept 1)

Hurricane Jimena has weakened slightly as it approaches the southwestern area of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula but remains an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said on its latest report.

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