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...catch up, Nokia claims roughly 60% of the Indian market. So ubiquitous are the firm's products that many locals refer to their mobile phone as a "Nokia" even when it isn't. In China, Nokia supplies around 30,000 retailers, far more than its rivals. Across the Middle East and Africa, it has another 120,000 outlets and enjoys a 52% share. (Nokia's slice of the North American market is approximately 10%; in Europe it's more than...
...your articles about the political events that led up to regime change in Central and Eastern Europe, we Hungarians are very proud of our contribution. We have just celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Pan-European Picnic: the opening of the border with Austria that allowed hundreds of East Germans to cross to the West. But this was preceded by many other events, such as the demonstrations by tens of thousands of people in Heroes' Square in Budapest in the summer of 1988 against Ceausescu's bulldozing of ethnic Hungarian villages in Romania, at a time when gatherings by just...
...sales in Europe climbed 50%, and are now worth $2.5 billion a year. And it's not just Europeans who are guzzling nonalcoholic beer - defined as containing less than 0.05% alcohol, roughly the same level as fruit juice. Over the same period, sales doubled in the Middle East and Africa, and are up in Japan and elsewhere in Asia...
...Middle East and Africa, the drinks appeal to a different demographic: young Muslims who want to copy Western trends but can't drink alcohol. "They can consume brands that appear in TV shows from the other side of the world," says Spiros Malandrakis, a drinks analyst with Euromonitor, "and at the same time not indulge in something haram [forbidden...
...National Security Adviser Jones and White House Iran strategist Ross, meanwhile, arrived in Jerusalem for their own talks early in the week. Jones has standing on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, having served as George W. Bush's Middle East envoy, and Ross is the architect of the Administration's strategy for dealing with Iran. The U.S. has been pushing for the resumption of final-status talks between Israel and the Palestinians, which stalled early in 2001, and Ross and Jones are reinforcing Mitchell's efforts to broker an Israeli settlement freeze in exchange for Arab goodwill gestures. The Israelis...