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Five years ago, curators at the British Museum began planning Sudan: Ancient Treasures - 320 objects, some of them 200,000 years old, on loan from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. But about three months ago the curators decided to put some more recent Sudanese artifacts on display as well: items from the western province of Darfur, where the Khartoum government and allied ethnic militias are blamed for killing 50,000 people and uprooting more than 1 million in the past 19 months. The Darfur objects - including a storage basket, toys and an ostrich-feather fan - testify to pastoral ways...
...Baggage Unions representing Alitalia staff conceded 3,700 job cuts - fewer than the 5,000 sought by the airline - and stricter pay deals to keep the troubled carrier from bankruptcy. Final approval of the rescue plan by Alitalia executives this week would trigger a vital €400 million government loan...
...snatched 18 canvases, tried in vain to trade them for Irish Republican Army members held in British jails. Others demand a ransom from the museum that owns the pictures. Ten years ago, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, made off with two major canvases by J.M.W. Turner that were on loan from the Tate Gallery in London. The paintings, worth more than $80 million, were recovered in 2002 after the Tate paid more than $5 million to people having "information" about their whereabouts. Though ransom is illegal in Britain, money for leads in an investigation is not, provided that police agree...
...candidate proceeded to ask her a series of questions. She answered with quiet dignity. She had worked in a ribbon factory for four years. She said the company was having trouble keeping up with foreign competitors and was forced to close when it was refused a new bank loan. She was given no notice of termination, no severance package. Her shift--about 300 people--was simply called together at the end of a workday and dismissed. "They were changing the locks even before we left," she added. The audience, composed mostly of trade unionists, gasped and groaned...
...problems that plague UFJ, it's difficult to see why it is being courted so ardently. Formed three years ago through the merger of three ailing banks, UFJ Holdings has yet to turn an annual profit, losing $3.6 billion last year alone. It's carrying $42 billion in bad loans on its books and without assistance will probably be unable to comply with a government order to cut that amount by half within the next seven months. Worse yet, the winning bidder will be acquiring a bank at which some executives could face criminal charges for hiding information from...